Poul Kjærholm

Born in Østervrå, Denmark, Kjærholm began his career as a cabinetmaker's apprentice with Gronbech in 1948, attending the Danish School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen in 1952.

[3] In 1959 he became assistant at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and lecturer.In 1965 his PK24 Chaise Longue typified his mature style.

Since 1982 a wide selection of those products have been produced by Republic of Fritz Hansen, a leading Danish furniture manufacturing firm.

[citation needed]In typically Scandinavian fashion, most of Kjærholm’s contemporaries opted for wood as their primary furniture construction material.

[1] In 2008, Gregory R. Miller & Co. published the comprehensive and definitive reference work, The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm: Catalogue Raisonné, by Michael Sheridan.