Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl ( born January 30, 1912 in Frederiksberg, † May 17 1989 in Ordrup ) was a Danish designer. He has influenced the Scandinavian design significantly and received international recognition as one of the first.
Life and work
Despite the opposition of his father Finn Juhl interested early on art history. He settled finally but still convince take to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 1930 to 1934 studied Finn Juhl, then he found a permanent position at Vilhelm Lauritzen, the leading architect of Danish modernism. In this capacity, he was awarded the 1944 CF Hansen medal. In 1945 he entered the Copenhagen School of Interior Design to teach and founded his own studio for furniture and interior design. As early as 1937 he had begun in collaboration with Niels Vodder with the furniture design and caused a stir in art circles carpenter. His entire life Juhl stressed again and again that he had learned self-taught furniture design. Since he did not stand in the tradition of Kaare Klint, he came in Denmark long resistance. In 1948, the American architect and author Edgar Kaufmann Juhl's work extensively in an article in the magazine Interiors ago. Thus the triumph of the Danes began in the United States. Three years later, Finn Juhl produced two dozen pieces of furniture for an exhibition in Chicago. The American company Baker Furniture presented Juhl's furniture then bring industrially.
1954 and 1957 he took part in the Triennale in Milan and has won there several times. In the 1950s and 1960s Finn Juhl designed a variety of interiors, including the Danish Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as offices and the interior of an aircraft of SAS. His style not only had influence on Scandinavian design, for example, Peter Hvidt, but on the global success of Danish interior design. Even after his death in 1989 remained the interest in Juhl's designs are made.
Works
Furniture
- Pelican chair ( 1940)
- FJ41 (1941 )
- NV44 chair ( 1944)
- NV45 chair ( 1945)
- FJ46 chair ( 1946)
- BO64 chair ( 1946)
- O59 chair ( 1946)
- FJ48 chair ( 1948)
- Egyptian chair ( 1949)
- FJ49A chair ( 1949)
- Judas table (1946 )
- BO98 chair ( 1952)
- FD137 also known as Japanese chair ( 1953)
- FJ53 chair ( 1953)
- BO101 chair ( 1953)
- FJ55 chair ( 1955)
- FD136 chair ( 1958)
- BO62 chair ( 1962)
- FD152 chair ( 1962)
Building and interior decoration
- Branch from Bing & Grøndahl, Amager Square, Copenhagen ( 1946)
- Meeting room of the UN Trusteeship Council, New York ( 1951-52 )
- Single Family, Nakskov (1952 )
- Danish state, Triennale, Milan (1957 )
- Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1960)
- Summer House by Anders Hostrup - Pedersen ( 1962)