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We all know the story of the late politician, John Profumo, whose deceit over his extra-marital relationship with the now infamous party girl Christine Keeler provoked not only his political demise but, arguably, the downfall of the entire Tory government of the time.
This scandalous event also happened to thrust a chair into the spotlight – the Series 7, Model 3107 chair designed by Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen in 1955. Except it wasn’t actually a Jacobsen chair that was straddled by the nimble Keeler in Lewis Morley’s classic 1963 photograph. It was, in fact, a rip-off of Jacobsen’s more polished design, bought from a sale for five shillings and now, ironically, part of the furniture collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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