Chair P5 Lacquered beech

Chair P5

The colourful P5 Chair features a perforated back with turned spindles, giving it a light and airy appearance. The chair features several design elements that are classic and characteristic of Josef Frank's chair design, and the original sketch has been preserved in Svenskt Tenn’s archive for decades.

Josef Frank’s bentwood chairs

Josef Frank designed several bentwood chairs in the late 1920s, some of which were produced for Thonet-Mundus AG in Vienna. The bentwood P4 chair’s original sketch has been preserved in Svenskt Tenn’s archive.

“I myself never sit on a chair
that is designed for a single position. I want to be able to sit in different ways on different occasions and at different times of the day.”

Josef Frank

How the P5 Chair is made

Chair P5 is manufactured at Gemla Fabrikers AB, Sweden’s oldest furniture factory, located at the small town of Diö in Småland.

Josef Frank

Austrian designer and architect Josef Frank has had an enormous impact on the history of Swedish design. Despite being nearly 50 years old when emigrating to Sweden, he is now considered one of the country’s most important designers of all time.