LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bangkok teak, fabric, leather

Size Notes:

Each: 83.5 x 69.5 x 78 cm. (32 7/8 x 27 3/8 x 30 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Executed by master cabinetmaker Niels Vodder, Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed 1945, produced circa 1955.

Condition:

Reupholstered and refinished. Few minor scuffs, scratches and indentations. Organic filling materials have been used following the original upholstery work.

Literature:

Ebbe Kornerup, 'Ægte og uægte Form og Konstruktion', Nyt Tidsskrift For Kunstindustri, no. 12, December 1945, p. 166
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: Furniture-Architecture-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, Ostfildern, 2014, pp. 4, 31, 41, 46, 79, 150, 152-53, 158-59, 160, 185, 206
Anne-Louise Sommer, Watercolors by Finn Juhl, Berlin, 2016, pp. 32-33, 103, 109, 112

Provenance:

Private Collection, Copenhagen, circa 1955<br />Thence by descent<br />Acquired directly from the above by the present owner