FINN JUHL FINE FURNITURE

FINN J UHL , 1912 – 1989 a Danish , international modernis t According to his worst critics, Finn Juhl saw life as a cocktail party. He was born into a well-off middle class family and was in many ways larger than life – a man of the world, who provoked the traditional Danish furniture designers. As a young man, he dreamed of becoming an art historian. His thorough understanding of the international art scene of his time as well as older art history was central to his work. He became one of the greatest furniture artists of the 20th century. He always stressed that he was self-taught as a furniture...

the modern art of his time. Not only did his furniture look like sculptures by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Jean Arp and Erik Thommesen – they were often also exhibited together with these artworks. Also his interior designs were inspired by the sculptor’s contemplations on free and static movement. His early furniture sculptures were shaped like big mammals. Juhl saw himself as a modernist and thus succumbed to modernism’s demand of honest constructions, reflecting the form in their function. took pride in making both the structurally supportive elements of the furniture and the seated person...

The American avant-garde easily understood Juhl’s dionysian, dynamic lines. It was after all the Americans who had introduced the streamlined design of the 1930s. But Juhl stayed within the ideal of European modernism’s idealistic principles of honest, transparent constructions. His supple shapes were anything but stylised and decorative. In the post-war period, European modernism lived on among the American art elite, which Juhl became part of through his friendship with Edgar Kaufmann Jr, the then Director of the Industrial Design department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not only...

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cock tail Table 1951

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