Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Today, Swedish manufacturer DUX’s most popular furniture lines — as well as the furnishings created by its first president, Folke Ohlsson — are synonymous with the work that vintage mid-century modern design obsessives love. Also important, the brand is known for some of the most commonplace means of furniture shipping and production in the modern era.
In Sweden, Studio Ljungs Industrier AB is the large family-owned parent company of Duxiana (in America, DUX). Initially a purveyor of bedding that is today celebrated for its ergonomically guided designs, Ljungs Industrier was founded by entrepreneur (and chocolate maker) Efraim Ljung in 1926. In 1950, Folke Ohlsson, then leading Ljungs Industrier’s design team, decamped to the States to explore how he could expand DUX’s business, which at that point included a wide range of furniture. Ohlsson established a DUX office not long after he arrived in California, first in San Francisco and later in Burlingame.
On the West Coast, the booming postwar American market was eager to embrace DUX’s affordable and practical bedroom furnishings, tables, armchairs and other seating. Characterized by sleek walnut and teak frames and low-slung silhouettes, the brand’s designs were emblematic of a generation of Scandinavian modernism that had gained popularity owing to visionaries such as product designer and architect Greta Magnusson-Grossman, who arrived in California from Sweden a decade prior to Ohlsson, and Finn Juhl, who created a Danish modern line for Michigan’s Baker Furniture Company in 1951.
DUX frequently collaborated with top-tier furniture design talent — among them Bruno Mathsson, Edward Wormley and Alf Svensson, a chief designer in the Malmö, Sweden, office of Ljungs Industrier — expanding the brand’s portfolio and establishing credibility as a design source. Ohlsson’s own designs, such as his comfortable leather lounges and wool-upholstered reclining rocking chairs, continue to be among the brand’s most desirable — and most imitated — however.
In 1949, DUX put into practice an idea that Ohlsson patented for the so-called “knock-down,” or “KD,” chair, a term referencing easy, flat-pack assembly. It saved DUX space in warehouses and money on transportation and was a concept that would provide inspiration to hundreds of subsequent companies — most notably fellow Swedish brand IKEA.
Today, vintage DUX sofas and dining chairs are valuable collector’s items. Find this coveted seating and other authentic DUX furniture on 1stDibs.
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak, Fabric
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Teak
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Foam, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak
20th Century Unknown Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Ultrasuede, Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Papercord, Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Papercord, Teak
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Maple
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Iron
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Walnut
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak, PVC
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Walnut
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Teak
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Leather, Teak, Cane
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Oak, Teak
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dux of Sweden Dining Room Chairs
Naugahyde, Walnut