Finn Juhl Pelican Chair
Black leather rosewood high back chairs by finn juhl for france søn 1960s set of 2.
Finn juhl pelican chair. Though finn juhl designed the pelican chair in 1940 its graceful curves are arresting even by today s standards. Very few were manufactured and the chair was almost forgotten until we rediscovered and relaunched the chair in 2001. He handpicked particular artifacts which were exhibited together with his furniture at the exhibition. The only known version of the pelican table was displayed with two pelican chairs at the copenhagen cabinetmakers guild exhibition in 1940.
Finn juhl pelican chair. Both the pelican chair and the pelican table are exceptional examples of finn juhl s spiritual kinship with modern art. In no other design of his is finn juhl s fascination for surrealism more apparent than in the pelican chair. House of finn juhl fj 4000 pelican sessel pelican chair von finn juhl.
When it was presented at the copenhagen cabinetmakers guild exhibition in 1940 it stood out with its unusual s. Eine dänische ikone ist finn juhls pelican chair in der schaffellausführung die wohl bereits schon so in den 1940er jahren produziert wurde. Finn juhl normally named his furniture numbers after the year in which they were designed but over time the nickname pelican stuck to the chair. With graceful curves that befriend the body and wrap the sitter in its embrace the pelican is true to juhl s idea that a chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space it is a form and a space.
Das design zeichnet sich durch eine sehr ungewöhnliche organische formgebung aus. It is shocking to think of finn juhl designing this sculptural chair in 1940 that was more than 75 years ago and the pelican chair is still out there by today s standards. Inspired by modern art and sculpture the chair exhibits an organic shape with a human character evidenced in the welcoming embrace of the seat back. Bei keinem anderen entwurf ist finn juhls faszination für den surrealismus so augenfällig wie im pelican chair.
Bei markanto ist die variante wahlweise in einem weißem oder cremeweißen schafffell erhältlich. Der pelican chair von finn juhl wurde erstmalig 1940 auf der cabinetmakers guild exhibition in k openhagen vorgestellt. House of finn juhl fj 4001 pelican sessel pelican chair von finn juhl. Out of all of his many designs the pelican chair was probably the one furthest ahead of its time.
As far as we know it was never produced again.