“The Tired Man”. Easy chair with oak legs, front legs with brass wheels, upholstered with brown lambswool. Manufactured and marked by by Lassen.

“The Tired Man”. Easy chair with oak legs, front legs with brass wheels, upholstered with brown lambswool. Manufactured and marked by by Lassen. The chair was first designed in sketch in 1935 for the furniture competition held in connection with the annual Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition. The chair was part of the “living room in a bachelor's appartment”. It was later modified to the example actually shown at the exhibition the following year in 1936. The chair has been interpreted as a fine contemporary and typical Danish comment to a more austere international Modernism prevailing in Central Europe in the 1930s. Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, vol. 1, ill. pp. 246–247. Literature: Arne Karlsen 1990: “Dansk Møbelkunst i det 20. århundrede”, vol. 1, ill. pp. 144–145. Literature: Povl Christiansen, Hakon Stephensen [ed.] 1966: “40- Håndværket viser vejen”, ill. pp. 46–47.