House of Finn Juhl

Why it is renowned

Finn Juhl furnished the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations headquarters in New York in 1951–52.¹²³ In 1960 and 1961 his work toured the United States in the Arts of Denmark exhibition, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.¹² In 2017 Wallpaper* reported on a small Finn Juhl hotel in Hakuba, in the Japanese Alps, conceived by the company, then called OneCollection, furnished with his designs and run as its showroom.⁴ The company names retailers and agents in more than 40 countries and territories, from Hong Kong and Japan to the United States.⁵

Recognition

• United Nations Headquarters, New York³1952Finn Juhl's Trusteeship Council Chamber, opened in 1952
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York¹1960his work in the Arts of Denmark exhibition
• Wallpaper*⁴2017the company's Finn Juhl hotel and showroom in Hakuba, Japan

The story

Finn Juhl, born in Frederiksberg in 1912, studied architecture and showed his furniture at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibitions with the joiner Niels Vodder from 1937.¹ In 2000 his partner Hanne Wilhelm Hansen passed the rights to his designs to Onecollection, founded by Ivan Hansen and Hans Henrik Sørensen, which later took the name House of Finn Juhl.²¹

What to know it by

• Chieftain Chair¹1949Finn JuhlArmchair first shown at the Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibition
• 45 Chair¹1945Finn JuhlArmchair with the seat and back lifted from the frame
• Pelican Chair¹1940Finn JuhlPut into production in 2001
• Baker Sofa²Finn JuhlSofa, reissued by the house