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Chair 'Egyptian' designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1949

Name: Chair 'Egyptian' designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1949
Brand: Finn Juhl
Price: 23328.15 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Chair “Egyptian” designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1949. Made and stamped by the maker. Brazilian rosewood and leather. Measurements: H: 89.2 cm / 2' 11 1/4’’ SH: 47.5 cm / 1' 6 1/2’’ W: 54 cm / 1' 9 1/2’’ D: 54.2 cm / 1' 9 3/4’’ First presented in 1949 at the Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition in Copenhagen. This exquisitely carved sculptural dining chair is among the most iconic pieces of 20th-century design. With a slanted backrest that connects to the elongated back legs, the shape of this chair is breathtaking. Small carved horns adorn the two top ends of the backs, and the composition has elegantly curved front and side stretchers. Rosewood is the rarest and by far the most beautiful wood used for this model, especially in combination with black leather upholstery. It was typical for Finn Juhl to separate the furniture planes, achieving a sense of airiness without reducing the seating comfort. Next to his “Chieftain Chair”, the “Egyptian Chair” is considered Juhl’s masterpiece. Both designs were first presented in 1949 at the Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition in Copenhagen. The architect Finn Juhl was the most sculptural of the Danish masters, and he frequently based his remarkable designs on ancient pieces. As the name “Egyptian” states, he drew inspiration from an antique Egyptian seat. Juhl worked with different, often larger, manufacturers but his finest collaborations were with his friend Nils Vodder, one of the most skilled cabinet makers in Denmark at the time. Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, vol. 3, p. 125.

Creator:

Finn Juhl (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 35.12 in (89.2 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)Depth: 21.34 in (54.2 cm)Seat Height: 18.71 in (47.5 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Leather,Rosewood

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1949

Condition:

Seller Location:

Stockholm, SE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1006625592872

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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 1stDibs, 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.