The Flying Chair in the Audience Chamber at Frederiksborg Castle and the History of Denmark’s Now-lost Flying Tables and Chairs / Thomas Lyngby
At Frederiksborg Castle, located approximately 40 kilometers north of Copenhagen, there is a well-preserved flying chair that conveniently connects two of the castle’s floors. It was installed for Christian V in 1692 in the castle’s audience chamber, which recently had been refurbished in Baroque style over the course of the previous decade.
The paper will discuss the chair’s possible purpose. Which areas of court life did it connect? And why did the king need a passageway of this type between them?
In answering these questions, I will also examine the chair in relation to other flying chairs and tables found in Danish castles during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. All of those have disappeared, but the chair in Frederiksborg’s audience chamber remains and is fully functional to this day.