$6,568Sale Price|20% Off
H 28.35 in W 70.87 in D 28.75 in
Finn Juhl Japan Sofa Model 137 in Teak for France & Son, Denmark 1950s
By Finn Juhl, France & Søn
Located in Hellouw, NL
Amazing Finn Juhl sofa Model 137 in teak for France & Son, Denmark 1950s. This three-seater 'Japan
Fabric, Teak
$6,602
H 30.71 in W 73.63 in D 27.96 in
Japan Three-Seat Sofa Designed by Finn Juhl in 1957 Made by France & Son.
By Finn Juhl
Located in Grenoble, FR
Finn Juhl Teak "Japan" series three-seat sofa by Danish designer Finn Juhl, designed in 1957 made
Oak
Finn Juhl Japan Sofa
By Finn Juhl
Located in London, GB
Three seater sofa by Finn Juhl and made by France & France. Newly re upholstered and in overall
Teak
Finn Juhl "Japan" Sofa in Teak and Shearling, 1957
By Finn Juhl
Located in Coronado, CA
Finn Juhl early "Japan" sofa produced by France & Daverkosen in 1957. This example in solid teak
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Rare Finn Juhl Sofa from the Japan Series
By Finn Juhl
Located in Munich, DE
Wonderful Finn Juhl japan sofa. has a small repair in the seating area. can be used as is or be re
Faux Leather, Teak
Rare Finn Juhl 3-Seater Japan Sofa
By Finn Juhl
Located in Munich, DE
Iconic design with amazing original fabric.
Fabric, Teak
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H 28.75 in W 73.63 in D 22.84 in
Midcentury Danish Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan Sofa For France & Son
By Finn Juhl
Located in Shepperton, Surrey
Original solid teak Japan sofa designed by Finn Juhl in 1957 for France & Son, Denmark. An
Brass
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H 28.75 in W 73.63 in D 29.53 in
Original Teak Finn Juhl Model 137/3 Japan Sofa For France & Son, Denmark
By Finn Juhl
Located in Shepperton, Surrey
Original early production Japan sofa designed by Finn Juhl in 1957 for France & Son, Denmark. An
Teak
Finn Juhl 'Japan' Three-Seat Sofa by France & Son, Denmark
By Finn Juhl, France & Søn
Located in Utrecht, NL
Teak "Japan" series three-seat sofa by Danish designer Finn Juhl, designed in 1957 made by France
Fabric, Teak
Japan Settee by Finn Juhl
By France & Søn, Finn Juhl
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A model 137 sofa from the "Japan" series with an upholstered floating seat and back atop a teak
Teak, Upholstery
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H 29 in W 74 in D 28 in
Mid-Century Modern Finn Juhl France & Son Denmark Danish Teak Rare Japan Sofa
By Finn Juhl, France & Søn
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a stunning, Danish, teak Japan sofa by Finn Juhl for France & Son. It is
Teak
Japan Sofa by Finn Juhl
By France & Søn
Located in Copenhagen, DK
FJ 137/3 "Japan" sofa in 3-seat edition with frame in teak and original grey/brown wool. Maker
Teak
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H 27.96 in W 26.58 in D 29.53 in
Exclusive Danish Vintage Finn Juhl Lounge Set, Japan Series, 1960s
By France & Søn, Finn Juhl
Located in Renens, CH
Finn Juhl’s Japan series is one of his most sought after furniture, its design (1953) was based on
Brass
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H 28 in W 74 in L 28 in
1950s Danish 'Japan Sofa' in Linen Upholstery by Finn Juhl for France & Son
By France & Søn, Finn Juhl
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A model 137 sofa from the "Japan" series with teak frame, newly upholstered in off-white linen
Linen, Teak
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H 30.71 in W 47.75 in D 27.5 in
Finn Juhl Japan Series Two-Seater Sofa, Early Label, Original Fabric / Denmark
By France & Søn, Finn Juhl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finn Juhl Japan Series Two-Seater Sofa,, Early label ,original fabric / Denmark.. excellent
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Finn Juhl "Japan" Sofa
By Finn Juhl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Finn Juhl "Japan" sofa designed in 1958 and produced by France & Daverkosen.
Brass
Vintage Finn Juhl "Japan" Sofa Black Leather and Teak
By Finn Juhl
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Great vintage condition we also have a matching chair and ottoman available.
Leather, Teak
Finn Juhl "Japan" Sofa by France & Sons
By Finn Juhl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Finn Juhl design model 137 series "Japan" sofa for France & Son, Denmark.
Teak
Finn Juhl Teak Japan Sofa Model 137
By Finn Juhl
Located in Crockett, CA
Danish teak model 137 Japan sofa designed by Finn Juhl and manufactured by France & Son. Retains
Brass
Finn Juhl France & Son Denmark Danish Teak Rare Japan Sofa
By Finn Juhl
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
Absolutely stunning, Danish, teak model 137, Japan sofa by Finn Juhl for France & Son. It is called
Finn Juhl Teak Japan Sofa Model 137
By France & Søn, Finn Juhl
Located in Crockett, CA
Danish teak model 137 Japan sofa designed by Finn Juhl and manufactured by France & Sons. Retains
Brass
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H 28 in W 74 in D 28 in
Finn Juhl Model 137 Japan Sofa in Teak and Tomato Red Wool, Denmark, 1950s
By Finn Juhl
Located in Sylacauga, AL
A rare sofa by Finn Juhl, Model 137, in teak for France and Daverkosen. Recently reupholstered in
Brass
The Japan Sofa by Finn Juhl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model 137 sofa from the "Japan" series with teak frame and Leather Upholstery
Teak, Leather
"Japan" Sofa by Finn Juhl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The "Model 137" sofa, also known as the "Japan" sofa, was designed in the 1950s by Finn Juhl for
Brass
Walnut Minimalist Handmade Platform Queen Bed Frame, Judd Style
By Donald Judd, Figure Ground, George Nakashima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An ode to our friend Donald Judd, the bedframe design employs the tatami style of Japanese Rooms and the Hygge of Danish comfort. The reveal is celebrated in its shadow. Rest happens...
Plywood
$17,083 / item
H 53.15 in W 125.99 in D 59.06 in
Oval Brass and Parchment Chandelier by Diego Mardegan for Glustin Luminaires
By Diego Mardegan
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Beautiful chandelier by Diego Mardegan for Glustin Luminaires, this other version of the spider chandelier has longer arms on the sides giving the oval shape. The metal arms paint...
Metal, Brass
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool This White Oak Chile Counter Stool is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The stool is chunky and modern...
Wood, Oak
Murano Hand Blown Chartreuse Green Glass Chandelier, in stock
Located in Miami, FL
Murano hand blown studio glass chandelier, in stock All different shaped chartreuse green discs with white details, rigadin technique Brass plated structure with 24 exposed brass reg...
Brass
Coffee Table by Mario Marenco for Mobilgirgi, Italy 1970s
By Mario Marenco
Located in Roma, IT
Coffee Table by Mario Marenco for Mobilgirgi, Italy 1970s. Cm 32,00 x 87,00 x 87,00. Walnut Wood. Good conditions!
Walnut
$4,900 / item
H 34 in W 86 in D 42 in
Custom Made Modern English Arm Sofa in Performance Linen Velvet - 86"
By Bloom Home Inc
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
This beautiful english arm sofa has a modern twist, with its single bench cushion, and beautiful curved apron sides. It’s upholstered in a Linen Velvet Performance fabric. Shown in...
Linen, Velvet
$6,376 / set
H 24.01 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Iroko Wood by Master Studio for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Neatly proportioned with exceptional detailing, the constant nightstand is your perfect bedside partner. In our furniture making, the IDEA is to create special pieces that you can bu...
Hardwood
$1,155Sale Price / item|30% Off
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
Custom Round Mohair Velvet Ottoman with Oak Feet
Located in London, England
Dagmar Design - Round Ottoman Custom-made ottoman developed & produced at our workshops in London using the highest quality materials. These examples are upholstered in a mustar...
Oak, Mohair, Velvet
$3,990 / item
H 15.75 in W 74.81 in D 29.14 in
Mustard Velvet Daybed with V-Shaped Beechwood Base, Model V
By Dusty Deco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DD V daybed is an exclusive daybed made by hand in Bosnia and Herzegovina by skilled craftsmen with long experience in wood and upholstery. Both frame and the characteristic V-shaped...
Fabric, Beech, Velvet
$13,835 / item
H 49.22 in Dm 70.87 in
Brass and Parchment Paper Chandelier by Diego Mardegan for Glustin Luminaires
By Diego Mardegan
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Impressive chandelier made of white enameled brass arms holding six beautiful parchment paper shades, which can be adjusted thanks to the handle of each socket. Signed by the arti...
Brass
$1,924 / set
H 21.66 in W 24.02 in D 35.83 in
Pair of Italian Mid-Century-Modern Lounge Chairs in Ochre Boucle, 1970s Italy
Located in Zagreb, HR
Pair of Vintage Italian Mid-Century Modern lounge chairs or club chairs. Modules can be used as a modular sofa or modular seating set. Beautiful and unique shape. A 1970 design and p...
Bouclé, Foam, Wood
$16,681
H 32.29 in W 106.3 in D 82.68 in
Danish Design Minerva Sofa Set by Peter Hvidt & Orla Molgaard Nielsen Teak, 1950
By France & Daverkosen, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen, Peter Hvidt
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Extremely rare & stunning! This fully original ''Minerva seating group'' by Peter Hvidt & Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen for France & Daverkosen 1950. The design & luxurious feeling of this...
Chrome
Finn Juhl Jupiter Sofa France and Son Denmark 1965 Black
By Finn Juhl, France & Søn
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Danish modern so called Jupiter sofa model 218 designed by Finn Juhl and manufactured by France and Son, Denmark 1965. The sofa has a solid rosewood frame and black leather seating. ...
Leather, Rosewood
Finn Juhl Delegate's Chair
By Baker Furniture Company, Finn Juhl
Located in Highland, IN
We feel that Finn Juhl's delegate's chair (or FJ51) is one of his most under appreciated designs. Perhaps overshadowed by the sexy #45 chair, with which it shares many qualities, it ...
Teak, Upholstery
Mid-Century Teak Sofa Bed with Storage Headboard, 1960s Design
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A versatile and functional example of Mid-Century design, this teak sofa bed offers both comfortable seating and convenient storage. Complete with a matching, detached headboard feat...
Teak, Upholstery
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, credenzas 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.
Juhl’s earliest works, designed in the late 1930s, are perhaps his most idiosyncratic. The influence of modern art is clear in his 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 workshop of Danish cabinetmaker Niels Vodder began to issue his designs. Yet Juhl’s 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 Judas table — a piece ornamented with stylish inlaid silver plaquettes — and the biomorphic Baker sofa. After an article authored by Kaufmann on Juhl and his work appeared in the U.S.-based magazine Interiors in 1948, he began receiving American commissions.
Kaufmann commissioned Juhl to create the exhibition design for, and contribute pieces to, the 1951 edition of the Good Design shows he organized for MoMA and Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. Baker Furniture asked Juhl to design for the firm, and he produced a collection of chairs, tables and cabinets, and, later, the 1957 sofa.
Scandinavian modernist seating, such as the chairs and sofas Juhl created for Baker, became immensely popular in postwar America, as the seeds of the Scandinavian style that Juhl sowed took root and spread in the United States. Juhl and his work featured prominently in the landmark show “Design from Scandinavia,” which opened in 1954 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and traveled to 24 museums in the U.S. and Canada; over three years, it was seen by more than a million people.
Juhl’s furniture — as well as his ceramics, tableware and accessories — has an air of relaxed sophistication and elegance that is unique in the realm of mid-century design.
Find vintage Finn Juhl armchairs, coffee tables, desks and other furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Black leather, silk velvet cushions, breathable bouclé fabric — when shopping for antique or vintage sofas, today’s couch connoisseurs have much to choose from in terms of style and shape. But it wasn’t always thus.
The sofa is typically defined as a long upholstered seat that features a back and arms and is intended for two or more people. While the term “couch” comes from the Old French couche, meaning to lie down, and sofa has Eastern origins, both are forms of divan, a Turkish word that means an elongated cushioned seat. Bench-like seating in Ancient Greece, which was padded with soft blankets, was called klinai. No matter how you spell it, sofa just means comfort, at least it does today.
In the early days of sofa design, upholstery consisted of horsehair or dried moss. Sofas that originated in countries such as France during the 17th century were more integral to decor than they were to comfort. Like most Baroque furnishings from the region, they frequently comprised heavy, gilded mahogany frames and were upholstered in floral Beauvais tapestry. Today, options abound when it comes to style and material, with authentic leather offerings and classy steel settees. Plush, velvet chesterfields represent the platonic ideal of coziness.
Vladimir Kagan’s iconic sofa designs, such as the Crescent and the Serpentine — which, like the sectional sofas of the 1960s created by furniture makers such as Harvey Probber, are quite popular among mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts — showcase the spectrum of style available to modern consumers. Those looking to make a statement can turn to Studio 65’s lip-shaped Bocca sofa, which was inspired by the work of Salvador Dalí. Elsewhere, the furniture of the 1970s evokes an era when experimentation ruled, or at least provided a reason to break the rules. Just about every area of society felt a sudden urge to be wayward, to push boundaries — and buttons. Vintage leather sofas of that decade are characterized by a rare blending of the showy and organic.
With so many options, it’s important to explore and find the perfect furniture for your space. Paying attention to the lines of the cushions as well as the flow from the backrest into the arms is crucial to identifying a cohesive new piece for your home or office.
Fortunately, with styles from every era — and even round sofas — there’s a luxurious piece for every space. Deck out your living room with an Art Deco lounge or go retro with a nostalgic '80s design. No matter your sitting vision, the right piece is waiting for you in the expansive collection of unique sofas on 1stDibs.