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Finn Juhl: Chieftain Sofa - Chieftain footstool, 1949 Salto & Sigsgaard: Council Chair Chelsea Hotel Wohnkultur66 is the name of a unique furniture concept store in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. Its owners, Martina Münch and Manfred Werner, have passionately been showcasing Finn Juhl’s furniture from Onecollection since 2001. For the last ten years, Onecollection and Wohnkultur66 have partnered up for the annual IMM “Internationale Möbel Messe” furnishing show in Cologne in January. The setting is the Chelsea Hotel, at Jühlicher Strasse 1, where people Finn Juhl: Panel System, 1953...

HOUSE OF FINN JUHL TOKYO HOUSE OF FINN JUHL COPENHAGEN HOUSE OF FINN JUHL PARIS Triode Design Triode is the name of a shop on Rue Jacob in the Saint Gemaine du Pres district in Paris. We call it our ”House of Finn Juhl in Paris”, as Jacques Barret, the owner of Triode, only sells Finn Juhl furniture. He also produces lamps - unique lamps - which are sold exclusively in his shop. His lamps are designed by American, Brazilian and French designers and only produced in limited numbers. Caption: The photos are from an exhibition of American lamp designers, where the Finn Juhl furniture created...

Paris Asseyez-vous! - Finn Juhl a La Maison du Danemark à Paris The Danish House in Paris and the Royal Danish Embassy’s cultural secretariat in France invited Onecollection to a partnership in 2013. The aim was to open a big Finn Juhl exhibition on the beautiful 300 sq metre second floor of the Danish House with a view over the Avenue de Champs-Élysées. In tandem with Juhl’s furniture, the exhibition also showed his original watercolour drawings, which are usually kept safely at the archives of the Design Museum Denmark in Copenhagen. The idea was that Juhl’s tactile furniture were not...

Finn Juhl: 45 Chair, 1945 - 57 Sofa, 1957 - Table Bench, 1953 Foto: Alexis Toureau Finn Juhl: Nyhavn Table, 1945 - 46 Chair, 1946 - Sideboard, 1955 Foto: Alexis Toureau

The Danish Embassy Residence Following the inauguration of the renovated Trusteeship Council Chamber, also called the Finn Juhl Chamber, at the United Nation Headquarters in April 2013, the Danish Ambassador Peter Taksøe-Jensen invited the designers Salto & Sigsgaard, the design furniture manufacturer Onecollection alongside a host of influential American architects to a reception at the Ambassador’s residence. Both the Ambassador’s residence as well as the embassy itself on White Haven Street in Washington, are renowned architectural gems designed by Danish architect Wilhelm Lauritzen in...

Finn Juhl: Baker Sofa, 1951 - Cocktail Table, 1951 Finn Juhl: Poet Sofa, 1940 - Pelican Chair, 1941 - Tray Table, 1965

Finn Juhl: Poet Sofa, 1941 Ordrupgaard Museum The Ordrupgaard Museum, north of the Danish capital, was originally built as a summer residence by the businessman and art collector Wilhelm Hansen in 1911. The main building was designed by architect Gottfred Tvede. Today it is home to an amazing collection of French impressionism and Danish 19th century paintings. In 2005, a new addition designed by the famous British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was inaugurated, and in 2010 Finn Juhl’s private residence was opened as a museum under the auspices of the Ordrupgaard Museum. To celebrate the Finn...

Finn Juhl: 108 Chair, 1946 Finn Juhl: Baker sofa, 1951

Stadil Council Chair at the old Dairy HRH, Crown Princess Mary Far from bustling Sydney, a little north of the small Danish town of Ringkøbing, you’ll find the tiny village of Stadil. Even here there are people interested in design. The village doesn’t have an Opera House, but there is an old converted dairy, which today provides office space for an interior designer, a photographer, three journalists and an artist. There is still leftover space at the dairy, which inspired us to take the Council Chair up into the attic and shoot some raw photos, which were much appreciated by the...

Tivoli, Copenhagen Restaurant Kähler, Tivoli Copenhagen New Kähler restaurant at the Tivoli Gardens Inside the world’s oldest entertainment park, the Tivoli Gardens in the centre of Copenhagen, Kähler has taken over the restaurant Perlen, situated in a heritage-listed building in the old garden. Frantz Longhi took over the legendary ceramics brand Kähler in 2008 and injected new life into the company. He also created a restaurant concept to support the brand. Frantz Longhi and his team do not accept half measures. The restaurant at the Tivoli Gardens has been through a total renovation and...

The re-opening of the renovated Finn Juhl Chamber The inauguration of the Finn Juhl Chamber at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on April 27th 2013 turned out to be exactly the festive day that we at Onecollection had long been looking forward to. The culmination of years of hard work was almost too good to be true. Onecollection had developed and produced all the furniture for the Chamber on time. The Trusteeship Council Chamber, as the chamber is also called, was as beautiful as a jewel and Finn Juhl must have been smiling in Heaven in the knowledge that his 1951 masterpiece had been...

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Seoul Finn Juhl at the Daelim Museum More than 300.000 visitors saw the big Finn Juhl exhibition at the Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea, which took place between 2012 and 2013. The exhibition was one of many around the world to mark the centenary of Finn Juhl’s birth. The state-of-the-art exhibition was curated by the Japanese Professor and Finn Juhl expert Noritsugu Oda. The exhibited furniture was loaned by Professor Oda’s own private collection, which is one of the world’s largest collection of Danish furniture. Foto: Daelim Museum Finn Juhl: Baker Sofa, 1951 Finn Juhl: Chieftain...

A Complete Onecollection Story A new building has been erected near Esbjerg Airport on the Danish west coast. The building has been designed by the architect company Arkitema who were assigned by Det Faglige Hus, a Danish trade union which has its headquarter in Esbjerg. The house has almost become what Finn Juhl called a Gesamtkunstwerk – a holistic design where the overall architecture, its space and interiors supplement each other to make a total inclusive design. Finn Juhl’s ideal was that every individual design element is important because it is part of and supplements the design as a...