Born in Copenhagen into a family of painters, Flemming Lassen started in the early 1930s a close collaboration with the architect and designer Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971).
Influenced by the theories then taught at the Bauhaus School (founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar), the project "House of the Future" that they develop for the Danish Association of Architects' in 1929 meets a huge success. Freely inspired by the aesthetics of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), the distribution of volumes, the materials used and the geometry of pure forms inaugurate the Danish functionalism.
In 1940, Flemming Lassen received the Eckersberg Medal - a distinction awarded annually by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - for the Nyborg Library whose plans he designed in partnership with the architect Erik Møller (1909 - 2002).
In parallel with his large-scale work, he created, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, several hundred models of chairs, armchairs and sofas. The kind of wood he selects - usually oak, beech or mahogany - harmoniously interweaves with the sheep's wool he uses to cover the volumes of the cousins.
Flemming Lassen (1902-1984) Sofa
Estimate : 100 000 / 150 000 €
The sofa that PIASA offers for sale, edited by Jacob Kjaer, was realized in 1935. The importance of its estimate (100 000/150 000 €) indicates how much the pieces of this designer seduce collectors both French and international.
A great sobriety reigns in its forms while the small mahogany feet assure a great proximity with the ground.
In 2014, the auction for a Flemming Lassen armchair, bordering on 200,000 euros (1.42 million Danish Kroner), set a record for an armchair sold in Denmark.
