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93. Finn Juhl
1912-1989
Pair of easy chairs, model no. FJ 45 designed 1945 Brazilian rosewood, fabric, leather. Each: 83 x 69.5 x 76 cm (32 5/8 x 27 3/8 x 29 7/8 in.) Executed by master cabinetmaker Niels Vodder, Copenhagen, Denmark. Underside of each impressed CABINETMAKER NIELS VODDER/ COPENHAGEN DENMARK/ DESIGN FINN JUHL. Estimate £30,000-50,000 $38,700-64,500 €35,800-59,600
Provenance Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, ‘Design’, 7 March 2018, lot 930 Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Ebbe Kornerup, ‘Ægte og uægte Form og Konstruktion’, Nyt Tidsskrif For Kunstindustri, no. 12, December 1945, p. 166 Esbjørn Hiort, Modern Danish Furniture, New York, 1956, p. 52 Niels Vodder Furniture, Copenhagen, 1959, p. 8 Grete Jalk, ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 2: 1937-1946, Copenhagen, 1987, pp. 276-77
Esbjørn Hiort, Finn Juhl: FurnitureArchitecture-Applied Art, Copenhagen, 1990, pp. 20, 25-26, 28, 34-35, 78, 101, 105 Patricia Yamada, ed., Finn Juhl Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Osaka, 1990, pp. 24, 42-45, 130 Per H. Hansen, Finn Juhl and His House, Ostfldern, 2014, pp. 4, 31, 41, 46, 79, 150, 152-53, 158-60, 185, 206 Anne-Louise Sommer, Watercolors by Finn Juhl, Berlin, 2016, pp. 32-33, 103, 109, 112 The present model was exhibited at the ‘Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild’, Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, 28 September–14 October 1945, stand 14.
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