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Rare Coffee Table Designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1941

Name: Rare Coffee Table Designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1941
Brand: Finn Juhl
Price: 126561.02 USD
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Coffee table designed by Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder, Denmark, 1941. Walnut-veneered wood, ash, walnut, painted steel, and aluminium. Only two of these coffee tables with an integrated planter are known to have been made. Provenance: From a private Danish collection. This coffee table is a rare example of Finn Juhl’s early work. The pioneering Danish architect and designer conceived the piece in 1941 – it is characterised by an integrated planter, the surface’s organic shape, and a compelling combination of materials, namely ash, walnut, walnut-veneer, aluminium, and painted steel. Only two of these coffee tables are known to have been made. One of them was part of Juhl’s home, as shown by an early photograph of the piece in his house and a 1941 floor plan by the designer himself. Notably, this table predates Juhl’s international acclaim. Juhl initially wanted to be an art historian, but his father doubted the financial prospects of the profession. The compromise was that Juhl would become an architect, instead. Throughout his life, Juhl was continuously inspired by contemporary art, particularly by the artists Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Erik Thommesen, and Vilhelm Lundstrøm. From an early age, he developed a thorough knowledge of the modern styles of international architecture — the Bauhaus in Germany, De Stijl in Holland, and Russian constructivism. Most of the Danish architects and cabinetmakers at the time were strongly influenced by Kaare Klint and his school. They looked to the past, studying British 18th-century furniture and Chinese furniture, and took a very functionalist and rational approach to design. In this context, Juhl clearly stood out and was more interested in an artistic approach. Juhl was the most sculptural of the Danish masters. Juhl worked with different, often larger, manufacturers but his finest collaborations were with his friend Niels Vodder, one of the most skilled cabinetmakers in Denmark at the time. Measurements: H: 40 cm / 15 3/4'' L: 124 cm / 4' 3/4'' W: 60 cm / 23 1/2''

Creator:

Finn Juhl (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 48.82 in (124 cm)Depth: 23.63 in (60 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Aluminum,Ash,Steel,Walnut,Wood

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1941

Condition:

Seller Location:

Stockholm, SE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1006631813492

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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.