Name: Coffee Table by Finn Juhl in Teak
Brand: Finn Juhl
Price: 2650 USD
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Coffee Table by Finn Juhl in Teak

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About the Item

Elegant Coffee Table from the 500 series, by Finn Juhl for France & Davoricksen, coffee table, teak, Denmark, 1958. This solid teak coffee table was part of the 500 series that included a square and a rectangular side table with the common feature of a raised lip that runs along the longer side of the tabletop. Also, the solid teak timber construction, with the elegant tapered legs, gives it a simple yet distinct feeling. One that Finn Juhl himself appreciated so much in his design, that he placed them in his own living room. Juhl was born in Denmark and planned on becoming an art historian when he was young. His father however decided it would be a better career move if he went to become an architect. After graduating in an architecture degree Juhl worked for ten years with Vilhelm Lauritzen. At the age of thirty-three Finn Juhl opened his own furniture design practice. In the 1940s he designed a number of creations that regenerated Danish furniture design and broke with the established furniture tradition. Juhl is known as the one of the most important pioneers of Danish design and the first Danish furniture designer to gain widespread international recognition. His work was vital to spreading the “Danish Modern” concept around the world. His designs are re-known for being exquisitely elegant, refined up until the smallest detail and extremely well executed. Finn Juhl was first and foremost famous for his furniture before working with interiors and as an exhibition architect. In the 1940s, he broke with the established furniture tradition and designed a number of creations that regenerated Danish furniture design.

Creator:
Finn Juhl (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 21.26 in (54 cm)Width: 27.96 in (71 cm)Depth: 27.96 in (71 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Teak
Place of Origin:
Denmark
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1960s
Condition:
Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Waalwijk, NL
Reference Number:
Seller: 450125021stDibs: LU933119453762

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Finn Juhl

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.