FINN JUHL (1912-1989)

This model was exhibited in partnership with master cabinetmaker Niels Vodder at the 1943 Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was common practice in Denmark for furniture designers to work in tandem with a highly skilled craftsman to execute their designs, and these partnerships would then be presented annually. After creating experimental and expressive works for the 1941 exhibition, including the now-famous Poet Sofa, Juhl and Vodder adopted a more restrained, but no less beautiful presentation in 1943. The chair presented here is an extraordinarily sculptural form that offered artistic optimism in the face of a World War that was raging across Europe. Due to wartime constraints, the chair was never put into greater production.