Description
This Finn Juhl credenza has it all–storage, style and function!
Finn Juhl lovers, use your 2 best fingers and look this piece over from stem to stern!
Imagine adding this original finish, Finn Juhl for Baker, period credenza to your collection! This magnificence features two sliding doors that conceal an adjustable shelf and three pull-out drawers. The case sits on five tapered legs and has a raised lip along the back edge. Did I mention the ORIGINAL FINISH.
Finn Juhl Details:
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CREATORBaker Furniture Company (Manufacturer)Finn Juhl (Designer)
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OF THE PERIODMid-Century Modern
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PLACE OF ORIGINUnited States
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DATE OF MANUFACTURE1952
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PERIOD1950-1959
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MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUESCaning CaneWalnut
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CONDITIONGood. Really impressive! Good Condition- VERY LIGHT scratches of minor wear to some areas of the piece. Most antique and vintage items fit this condition. No structural issues. READY for your home, office or condo.
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WEARWear consistent with age and use
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DIMENSIONS31 in.Hx78 in.Wx18 in.D79 cmHx198 cmWx46 cmD
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Finn Juhl (Designer)
Along with Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Børge 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 nation’s 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 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. His earliest works, designed in the late 1930s, are perhaps his most idiosyncratic. The influence of contemporary art is clear in Juhl’s 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 Danish furniture-making firm Niels Vodder began to issue his designs. Yet his now-classic “NV 45” armchair still demonstrates panache, with a seat that floats above the chair’s 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 America’s most prominent family of modern architecture and design patrons. (Kaufmann’s father commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the house “Fallingwater.”) Juhl quickly won a following for such signature designs as the supremely comfortable “Chieftan” lounge chair, the biomorphic “Baker” sofa, and the “Judas” table, a piece ornamented with stylish inlaid silver plaquettes. As you will see from the offerings on these pages, Finn Juhl’s furniture — as well as his lighting, ceramics, tableware and accessories — has an air of relaxed sophistication and elegance that is unique in the realm of mid-20th- century design.Ty & Lynne McDanielAn Orange Moon2418 W North Ave
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