The Danish architect and modernist Finn Juhl would have turned 100 in 2012. Thus, he was celebrated with special exhibitions all over the world throughout 2012.

On this year’s furniture fair in Stockholm, Onecollection follows up on the celebration of Finn Juhl, with an unique exhibition of his organic furniture and lamps from the 1940’s and 50’s. The exhibition, showing a modern home, is arranged in collaboration with designer Rigetta Klint.

Onecollection has since 2001 relaunched Finn Juhl’s artistic universe of furniture and is today able to present more than 25 unique models from the period 1940-1965.

Finn Juhl was always inspired by what was close to his heart – art. Thus, the vocabulary of Finn Juhl’s furniture was greatly opposed to the trend of that time, led by gurus like Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Kaare Klint in Denmark, where functionalism was more important than form and figure. Cubism and surrealism were the dominating movements in modern art of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Both directions based on the human body. Finn Juhl did the same. He said: ”First the body – then the furniture”.

Finn Juhl was the first modern furniture designer with an artistic approach to furniture design. No other designer has created furniture or masterpieces like Finn Juhl did it in his golden years: the 1940’s with furniture like the Pelican chair, the Poet, the 45 chair and the Chieftain chair. However, Finn Juhl was much more than these world-famous icons.

You can experience it all on the fair in Stockholm, where we present the furniture in the hottest colours and materials of the time, being part of a modern home design.

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Apart from Finn Juhl, we present a new chair, TIME, designed by the Danish designer Henrik Tengler, who also created the successful ”Chairman chair”. ”TIME” is cosmopolitan functionalism – a dynamic conference chair with an international vocabulary.

We further present a super elegant stool, WARNING, by Norwegian Linn Anna Bjørk, as well as a minimalistic and simple rack, ONECASE, by Danish Søren Ulrik Petersen.

Onecollection was founded in 1990 by Ivan Hansen and Henrik Sørensen, under the name Hansen & Sørensen. The two founders still own the company, which today is one of the most advanced players in the Danish industry of design furniture. Onecollection is currently working on a comprehensive furniture assignment in one of the permanent council halls in the UN headquarters in New York.
This hall was fitted by Finn Juhl in 1950. Thus, Onecollection is recreating the original Finn Juhl chairs for the delegates. The company is further fitting the hall with new customized tables, as well as new chairs, designed by designers Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard. Pictures from the project are displayed on screen on the fair in Stockholm.

For further information, please contact Henrik Sørensen, Tel.: +45 20222103

og nyeste skumsprøjt er det nyåbnede House of Finn Juhl Copenhagen

Sådan skriver Julie Vöge blandt andet i Berlingskes Boligtillæg søndag den 3. juni 2012 og fortsætter:

Møbelarkitekten Finn Juhl, der huserede i 1940’erne, sælger her i 2012 som aldrig før.  Hans design glider fint ind i vores lyse nordiske indretning, hvor retro og natur er to kodeord for tiden. For nylig åbnede House of Finn Juhl på Nordre Toldbod i København, som er et showroom og en konceptbutik dedikeret til designerens møbler – både nyproducerede og vintage.

House of Finn Juhl København

Eye Table was designed in 1946 for the 46 Sofa. At that time Finn Juhl was very much inspired by modern art especially by Picasso, Henry More.

The eye-shaped sofa table has a blank desktop and is as usual plenty of details.

The sofa table is either in teak or walnut with a desktop in high lustre.

Design: Finn Juhl, 1948

Inspired by ”free art”, Finn Juhl designed Poeten for his own home in 1941. Today this sofa represents a part of Danish cultural history and modern furniture that exudes values that have more or less disappeared in these days of fleeting fancies.

Art dictated Finn Juhl’s designs. He also used his artistic sensibilities to use his design as a reflection on his own times. It was Finn Juhl’s ambition to create furniture with a personality that reflected both functionality and aesthetics.

It has been said about Finn Juhl, that he thought a piece of furniture should be seen as an individual piece of art and not just as part of the overall interior design. Furniture should reflect the personality and originality of the artist, and at the same time be a practical piece of functional art – rather than a sculpture.

It was the human freedom as reflected in surrealism and cubism that inspired Finn Juhl.

Particularly Jean Arp’s portrayal of the human torso and Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculptures.

Rather than thinking in terms of practical construction, Finn Juhl had the mindset of a sculptor, when he shaped a piece of furniture. In the 1940s and 1950s, this way of working had never been seen before. His ambition was to design furniture with movement and life.

Poeten is made to the finest manufacturing standards with hand-sewn upholstery, and its legs come in several different types of wood.

Design: Finn Juhl, 1941

The Pelican Chair is clearly a result of Finn Juhl’s inspiration from artistic interpretations of the human body – particularly in surrealism and cubism.

Thanks to its organic shape, the Pelican has almost got a human character and therefore become a body in itself. In the Pelican Chair, one human body can find shelter in another. Although initially dismissed as “walrus-like” by his contemporaries, this chair later became an iconic example of his design.

It was obvious to Finn Juhl, that furniture needed an artistic sensibility, in order to be both exciting as well as at peace with the surroundings.

Typical of Finn Juhl, the Pelikan is very comfortable and manufactured according to best craftsmanship traditions with hand-sewn upholstery. The legs come in several types of wood.

Finn Juhl also pointed out that furniture is a practical necessity, and therefore should not be created as visual objects but seen as –and used as – applied art, as he explained in 1965.

Finn Juhl was the modern furniture designer, who created artistic access to furniture design. This made him famous in Denmark and abroad.

After his death, he inspired new generations all over the world.

Design: Finn Juhl, 1940

Finn Juhl was a pioneer in Danish design. In 1945 he designed this fantastic armchair, which was one of the first to break with tradition by freeing the seat and back from the frame.

The “45”-chair has become the classic symbol of Juhl’s design.

Uncluttered, light and elegant, combined in lively motion, seemed to be the secret to his art. The air between the frame and the seat of the chair created a lightness that reflected beauty and floating grace. In this way, the chair created pleasure both when looking at it, as well as in its practical use.

The result was an easy, elegant and tantalising expression that came to characterise Finn Juhl and make him world famous as an unrivalled designer.

Model 45 is an example of high quality craftsmanship with carefully selected wood and upholstered with leather or fabric.

45 Chair, Design Finn Juhl, 1945

Finn Juhl was preoccupied with shapes and colours during all of his life because of his great interest in cubist and surrealistic art. Finn Juhl was a pioneer with regard to including colour as an active element in space, furniture and textiles. This he did with a rare confidence so that his arrangements appear with great sensuality as a coherent whole – “Gesamtkunstwerk”.

The Sideboard with coloured sliding doors and trays was designed by Finn Juhl for BOVIRKE in 1955. It is part of a theme with cubist wood cabinets that float on delicate steel frames with wood “feet” and in particular the colours which Finn Juhl arranged throughout the 1950s and 60s. The colour elements reflected his fascination with Goethe’s famous colour circle, which placed the colours in a harmonious cohesion. Finn Juhl’s own house at Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen is a bright example of his use of colours.

The FJ Sideboard, now relaunched by ONECOLLECTION, is available in walnut, teak, oak and Oregon pine, and in a yellow / red range of colours and a blue range of colours. The frame is in hand-burnished steel.

Sideboard – Design Finn Juhl, 1955

FJ Lamps that are made of painted metal are now back in production at ONECOLLECTION in original design for a colour combination of two shades of gray.

In 1963, Finn Juhl designed a series of lamps for the Danish lamp company LYFA. The company was originally named “Københavns Lampe- og Lysekronefabrik” (Copenhagen Lamp and Chandelier Factory), but changed the name to LYFA in 1930. From the 1950s onward, LYFA hired designers to design lamps in modern shapes and was later honoured with several design awards. Finn Juhl is among the most famous designers. The FJ Lamp series was only in production for seven years and is nowadays both rare and coveted as second-hand models.

FJ Lamps are designed by Finn Juhl’s design criterion on movement. The outer shade can move freely in the solid inner shade and direct the light where you need it. Finn Juhl also worked in this way with his furniture, allowing for great freedom of movement. He said: “Furniture should be like beds — you need to be able to move in them.”

FJ Lamps that are made of painted metal are now back in production at ONECOLLECTION in original design for a colour combination of two shades of gray.

The designer Søren Ulrik Petersen is a master of crooked thoughts and ideas – he is always looking for other ways of doing things and often uses non traditional methods and materials in order to reach the goal. ONE CASE is based on a simple idea of cutting, folding and assembling.

The material is white lacquered 4 mm Alu-debond, processed in a modern CNC machine, folded, glued and ready to hang up on a wall.

With changeable high gloss back covers in beautiful strong colors, this optically light looking case gets an incredibly decorative function, never experienced before. The colours may be changed to other colours and this way you can put your own touch to the room or the mind like e.g. occasion, season, mood or just because you want to. There is one module only in the “series” + 8 different colours. So simply and so easily it can be done, when you have a tendency of crooked thoughts and straight lines.

Case philosophy

about a case

we need to collect things, which tell others who we are

we need to collect them and place them in a case

this is not a bookcase

it is not a suitcase or a briefcase

it is just a case

and when you use it, you build it as you need it

it is a simple thing

it is just a case

just OneCase…

Onecase

Onecollection is re-lauching this super comfortable easy chair complemented by a foot stool and a table. The chair was designed by Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel in 1956 for the company Fritz Hansen, but it has never before been produced in a large scale.

Nanna Ditzel, who was one of the most important modern furniture designers in Denmark, passed away in 2006. Her daughter Dennie, who is taking care of her parent’s design heritage, has asked Onecollection to re-launch the chair, which has always had it’s place in her mother’s house.

To Dennie it is her childhood’s cosy chair, where you sat safely and had stories read aloud. The chair, which we have named Dennie, is delivered with fabric of own choice, but is perfect with Hallingdal 65 in sharp colour.

 Dennie, is delivered with fabric of own choice, but is perfect with Hallingdal 65 in sharp colour.