Along with Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Børge Mogensen, Finn Juhl was one of the great masters of mid-20th-century Danish design. Juhl was the first among that group to have his work promoted overseas, bringing the character of the nation’s furnishings — and the inherent principles of grace, craftsmanship and utility on which they were based — to an international audience. A stylistic maverick, Juhl embraced expressive, free-flowing shapes in chair and sofa designs much earlier than his colleagues, yet even his quietest pieces incorporate supple, curving forms that are at once elegant and ergonomic. As a young man, Juhl hoped to become an art historian, but his father steered him into a more practical course of study in architecture. He began designing furniture in the late 1930s, a discipline in which, despite his education, Juhl was self-taught, and quite proud of the fact. His earliest works, designed in the late 1930s, are perhaps his most idiosyncratic. The influence of contemporary art is clear in Juhl's 1939 “Pelican” chair: an almost Surrealist take on the classic wing chair.
Critics reviled the piece, however; one said it looked like a "tired walrus." Juhl had tempered his creativity by 1945, when the Danish furniture-making firm Niels Vodder began to issue his designs. Yet his now-classic “NV 45” armchair still demonstrates panache, with a seat that floats above the chair’s teak frame. Juhl first exhibited his work in the United States in 1950, championed by Edgar Kaufmann Jr., an influential design critic and scion of America’s most prominent family of modern architecture and design patrons. (Kaufmann’s father commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the house “Fallingwater.”) Juhl quickly won a following for such signature designs as the supremely comfortable “Chieftan” lounge chair, the biomorphic “Baker” sofa, and the “Judas” table, a piece ornamented with stylish inlaid silver plaquettes. As you will see from the offerings on these pages, Finn Juhl’s furniture — as well as his lighting, ceramics, tableware and accessories — has an air of relaxed sophistication and elegance that is unique in the realm of mid-20th- century design.
Finn Juhl 108 Chair Finn Juhl 109 Chair Finn Juhl 45 Chair Finn Juhl 46 Chair Finn Juhl 46 Sofa Finn Juhl 500 Couch Table Finn Juhl 53 Sofa Finn Juhl 57 Sofa Finn Juhl Baker Sofa Finn Juhl Bench Cushion Finn Juhl Chieftains Chair Finn Juhl Chieftains Footstool Finn Juhl Circle Rug Finn Juhl Cocktail Table Finn Juhl Egyptian Chair Finn Juhl Eye Table Finn Juhl Kaufman Table Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan 2-Seat Sofa Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan 3-Seat Sofa Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan Easy Chair Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan Footstool Finn Juhl Nyhavn Desk Finn Juhl Nyhavn Tray Unit Finn Juhl Pelican Chair Finn Juhl Pelican Chair - Artwork Edition Finn Juhl Pelican Chair w/ Buttons Finn Juhl Pelican Table Finn Juhl Poet Sofa Finn Juhl Reading Chair Finn Juhl Ross Coffee Table Finn Juhl Silver Table Finn Juhl Tray Table - Reversible Top Finn Juhl Wall Sofa
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Vintage, Mid-Century, Scandinavian Modern, Design Classics, Minimalist, Modernist, PostmodernPair of Finn Juhl vintage Teak Bowls for Kay Bojesen 1949 NO RES Danish Modern 20th Century Design - 2912M Date / Time : June 23, 2016 12:00PM Finn Juhl (1912-1989) Chieftain Chair Teak, leather Executed by Neils Vodder, Copenhagen, Denmark Black leather on teak frame, underside branded Copenhagen Denmark Finn Juhl, ht. 36 3/4, wd. 39 3/8, dp. Literature: Svend Erik Møller and Viggo Sten Møller, Dansk Møbelkunst, Københavns snedkerlaugs møbeludstilling 1927-1951 (Copenhagen, 1951), p. 82; Esbjørn Hiort, Modern Danish Furniture (New York, 1956), pp. 54-55; Eva Hamilton, 'Modern design iG Gammal miljö,' Svensk DAM, no. 11, March 18, 1964, illustrated p. 41; Grete Jalk, ed., Dansk Mobelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 3: 1947-1956 (Copenhagen, 1987), pp. 124-25, 233, 311; Esbjørn Hiort, Finn Juhl: Furniture, Architecture, Applied Art (Copenhagen, 1990), front cover, pp. 23, 40-41.