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Wonderful and very comfortable leather stools from the 1960s.
Very nice design and high -quality workmanship.
The teak frame is particularly beautifully shaped.
The new leather pillow makes the stool very comfortable.
Design: Finn Juhl
Manufacturer: France and Son
Condition:
Very good vintage condition with slight signs of wear.
The leather pillow is new.
The leather parts on the frame are originally preserved with slight signs of wear.
The teak frame was lovingly revised and still has slight charming age -related signs of wear.
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Dimensions:
Width: 63 cm/ 24.8 in.
Depth: 45 cm/ 17.72 in.
Height: 42 cm/ 16.54 in.Creator: Finn Juhl (Designer),France Sn (Maker)Similar to: Grete Jalk (Designer)Illum Wikkels (Designer)Hans J. Wegner (Designer)Dimensions: Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)Depth: 17.72 in (45 cm)Seat Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Style: Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)Materials and Techniques: Leather,TeakPlace of Origin: DenmarkPeriod: 1960-1969Date of Manufacture: 1960Condition: GoodReplacements made: New Leather Pillow. Minor losses.Seller Location: Mnchen, DEReference Number: 1stDibs: LU7970243582052Shop All Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl
Along with Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Brge 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 nations 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, credenzas 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.
Juhls earliest works, designed in the late 1930s, are perhaps his most idiosyncratic. The influence of modern art is clear in his 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 workshop of Danish cabinetmaker Niels Vodder began to issue his designs. Yet Juhls now-classic NV 45 armchair still demonstrates panache, with a seat that floats above the chairs 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 Americas most prominent family of modern architecture and design patrons. (Kaufmanns father commissioned Frank Lloyd Wrights design of the house Fallingwater.)
Juhl quickly won a following for such signature designs as the supremely comfortable Chieftan lounge chair, the Judas table a piece ornamented with stylish inlaid silver plaquettes and the biomorphic Baker sofa. After an article authored by Kaufmann on Juhl and his work appeared in the U.S.-based magazine Interiors in 1948, he began receiving American commissions.
Kaufmann commissioned Juhl to create the exhibition design for, and contribute pieces to, the 1951 edition of the Good Design shows he organized for MoMA and Chicagos Merchandise Mart. Baker Furniture asked Juhl to design for the firm, and he produced a collection of chairs, tables and cabinets, and, later, the 1957 sofa.
Scandinavian modernist seating, such as the chairs and sofas Juhl created for Baker, became immensely popular in postwar America, as the seeds of the Scandinavian style that Juhl sowed took root and spread in the United States. Juhl and his work featured prominently in the landmark show Design from Scandinavia, which opened in 1954 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and traveled to 24 museums in the U.S. and Canada; over three years, it was seen by more than a million people.
Juhls furniture as well as his ceramics, tableware and accessories has an air of relaxed sophistication and elegance that is unique in the realm of mid-century design.
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France Sn
Danish manufacturer France Sn is best known for its prolific output of elegant mid-century modern furnishings in teak and leather, yet its multinational beginnings took shape during the 1930s.
After businessman Charles William Fearnley France (18971972) moved from his native England to Denmark in 1936, he began to operate a small mattress factory alongside his friend Eric Daverkosen, a Danish cabinetmaker, under the name France Daverkosen. Shortly afterward, Daverkosen passed away, and when Denmark was invaded during the Second World War, Charles was captured and sent to a prison camp in Germany. When he was released, the British entrepreneur set out to produce furniture in the early 1950s, setting up a shop in Hillerd to manufacture the kind of sleek beech and teak goods that were gaining widespread acclaim around the world. In 1957, Frances son James joined the business, and the company changed its name to reflect the addition.
Throughout the 50s and 60s, France Sn produced a stunning array and staggering quantity of designs, with elegant modernist lounge chairs and armchairs, teak and rosewood dining tables and other furnishings by the likes of Finn Juhl, Grete Valk, Ole Wanscher, Peter Hvidt and Orla Mlgaard-Nielsen all gracing its catalogues.
Even as there was a focus on mass production at France Sn and the brand doesnt quite enjoy the same renown as fellow mid-century Danish furniture makers such as Carl Hansen Sn Charles France believed in making quality furniture, and the companys offerings evoke the warmth of the handcrafted work that is typically associated with Scandinavian modernism.
In the 1960s, the company was bought by Danish designer Poul Cadovius, who folded it into the operations at CADO, a company he founded during the 1950s. Surviving examples of early work from the brand as well as modern icons by the likes of Verner Panton that followed in later years continue to be in demand.
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