Sisustus ja Huonekalumessut (Interior design and furniture exhibition) were organized in Helsinki, September 11-19, 1937. An upholstered version of this chair was shown at this particular exhibition. The chair was given its present-day, lighter look in year 1947.
As well as all the well-known Aalto chairs, there were a couple of rather interesting new ones. A huge reclining chair upholstered in special fabric…However, the chair seemed perhaps to be a little clumsy and over-dimensioned in comparison with Artek’s usually slender and graceful vocabulary of form.
Arkkitehti (The Finnish Architectural Review) 1937, p. 36