The Grand Prix™ chair is a chair with graphic edge. It was introduced at the Designers’ Spring Exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art & Design in 1957. Later that year, the chair was displayed at the Triennale in Milan where it received the Grand Prix, the finest distinction of the exhibition. The celebrated chair comes in both a steel or wood base and can be customised through a series of colours, wood types and upholstery. Wooden legs are angled smoothly outwards in this design, mimicking the steel legs of Jacobsen’s other plywood chairs. This is one of the few Arne Jacobsen chair designs with wooden legs. Remember that the Grand Prix chair with wooden legs is not stackable.

It is said that as a child growing up in Copenhagen, Arne Jacobsen painted over the Victorian wallpaper in his bedroom. But young Arne did not cover his walls with typical childish drawings or paint the ornate wallpaper boyish blue. Instead, he decided to paint his room entirely white. His decision may seem commonplace today, but in the early twentieth century white walls were not yet in fashion. From the very beginning, Arne Jacobsen was ahead of his time. 

Mówi się, że jako dziecko dorastające w Kopenhadze Arne Jacobsen zamalował wiktoriańską tapetę w swojej sypialni. Ale młody Arne nie pokrywał ścian typowymi dziecięcymi rysunkami ani nie malował ozdobnej tapety na chłopięcy błękit. Zamiast tego postanowił pomalować swój pokój całkowicie na biało. Jego decyzja może dziś wydawać się banalna, ale na początku XX wieku białe ściany nie były jeszcze w modzie. Od samego początku Arne Jacobsen wyprzedzał swoją epokę.