Provenance: Acquired from Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers in 1973, lot 288, hammer price DKK 500.

Model presented at The Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition at Designmuseum Danmark, 1945. Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, vol. 2, p. 276.

The reason why Finn Juhl's sofa model FJ-41 as well as this rare model from 1945 with some confusion both carry the name “The Poet” is the following:

Kirsten Vodder, who was the daughter of Cabinetmaker Niels Vodder, was married to the poet Frank Jæger who in the late 1940s was a well-known person in the public eye in Denmark. Vodder and Jæger were friends with the author Jørgen Mogensen, who was the writer of the comic strip “The Poet and Little Mother” which dealt with the slightly lazy Poet and his beautiful wife “Little Mother”, who were clearly inspired by the friends Frank Jæger and Kirsten Vodder. A description you could claim the couple also played along with as seen in the photo with Frank Jæger lying on the sofa and Kirsten Vodder watching admiringly. But the sofa model here was both part of the inventory in Kirsten Vodder and Frank Jæger's home as well as being included as a drawing in a more stylized form in the comic strip “The Poet and Little Mother”. Just as Frank and Kirsten´s sofa, the present example has no buttons in the back.