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AV 53

Design: Arne Vodder

Danish furniture design at its best and most beautiful...

Model AV 53 was designed by the renowned Danish furniture architect Arne Vodder in 1953. The beautiful architecture makes the furniture timeless, with a firm and flexible design form.
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  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

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  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more
  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more
  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more
  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more
  • <BR><B>THE CRAFTMANSHIP</B>


    THE CRAFTMANSHIP

    Professional craftsmanship is essential for enhancing the true timeless beauty of excellent design. All furniture is carefully manufactured in Denmark by our skilled craftsmen. Shaping frames in steel and wood, moulding upholstery & sewing covers in leathers & fabrics, we are truly handcrafting the architect’s vision into functional, durable & stylish designer furniture.

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

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H: 84 cm

Chair - W: 70 cm
2 pers. - W: 147 cm

D: 75 cm

Seat height: 41-44 cm

Seat depth: 48 cm

Upholstery

Frame | Molded foam with nozag springs
Seat cushion | Polydun

Legs

BEECH | 02-soap, 04-lacquered, 06-oil, 08-mahogany stained, 09-black lacquered

OAK | 10-soap, 12-oil, 14-varnished, 16-white oil, 18-black stained, 19-smoked oil

WALNUT | 40 oil

Note: Offered with +3 cm leg height in the BEECH & OAK versions.

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Fabric

Wool | Chenille, velor, polyester | Cotton, linen | Mix | Structure

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Leather

Semi-aniline | Aniline | Vintage Honed Aniline | Nubuck

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Product sheet

Photos

2D/3D files

Opus hvilestole stole

Classic design with optimal sitting comfort

The seating comfort is exceptional with armrests and a medium high back, which together provide a particularly good sitting position.

Give the classic your personal expression

AV 53

Put your personal touch on the classic furniture, as the AV 53 in both lounge chair and sofa can be delivered in many types of wood and with a myriad of options in leather and upholstery.
Arne Vodder

A little about designer Arne Vodder

Arne Vodder (16 February 1926-2009), educated at the School of Interior Design with Niels Vodder in the 1940s.
Further education as an architect at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1947, and from 1951 to 1976 had his own design studio together with architect Anton Borg. Together, they developed a type house system that has become widely used.
From 1953 he designed furniture i.a. for Cado, France & Søn, Fritz Hansen and Subast. For a number of years he was also in-house architect for the Copenhagen department store "Havemanns".
Arne Vodder has had separate exhibitions in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brussels, Rotterdam, London, New York, Zurich and Bern. He has exhibited several times at the joiners' guild's exhibitions, and has been awarded at the Triennale in Milan.
  • <B>OUR HISTORY</B>

    OUR HISTORY

    We have roots all the way back to the first Danish design classics, which created the basic for the unique Danish furniture architecture that is recognized and loved all over the world. For the past 50 years, Nielaus has been a family-owned business, which has continued a solid sense of tradition, Danish furniture design and good craftmanship 

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more
  • <B>OUR HISTORY</B>

    OUR HISTORY

    We have roots all the way back to the first Danish design classics,, which created the basic for the unique Danish furniture architecture that is recognized and loved all over the world. For the past 50 years, Nielaus has been a family-owned business, which has continued a solid sense of tradition, Danish furniture design and good craftmanship 

    Danish (Danmark)    Made to order in Denmark since 1959

    Read more