Finn Juhl liv, værk, verden

“Art is art, and a chair is a chair,” the architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl had no doubt. Yet his designs often balance delicately between free art and functional design. Finn Juhl was one of the leading figures of the golden age of Danish furniture design in the years after the Second World War, and it was largely through his breakthrough in the United States that the world discovered the Danish chair and the hallmark of Danish Design.

Finn Juhl liv, værk, verden tells the story of Finn Juhl (1912-89) and places his work in the context of the time in which it was created—from the breakthrough of modernism around 1930, through the heyday of cabinetmaker furniture in the 1940s and 1950s, to the rediscovery in the 1990s of his almost forgotten masterpieces and their sublime craftsmanship.

Language: danish