Provenance: Private Danish collection. Acquired directly from Niels Vodder 1945. Hence by descent in the family.

The “FJ 44” chair is regarded as one of Finn Juhl's most important pieces. Designed for the Copenhagen Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibition in 1944, the chair can be seen as the starting point for probably the most fruitful period in his career. Here we see for the first time his organic sculptural forms fully unfolded in wood. One can regard the chair as the masterpiece that marks the end of a search for wood as the medium through which he can express himself. According to legend, cabinetmaker Niels Vodder made only 12 examples of this chair, and today only a handful are known to exist. It remained a sculpture in wood, which at the time had truly stretched the limit of what a skilled cabinetmaker could do by hand. The chair was a personal favourite of Finn Juhl, as well as for his partner Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, and remained in the Finn Juhl house in Kratvænget, Ordrup.