Prominent Danish Designers - Finn Juhl

In this part of the series of articles about prominent Danish designers design the famous Finn Juhl put in the spotlight. Danish Design features a functional style in design and architecture. Today, Danish design characterized by beautiful kitchen accessories and jewelry collections of famous brands such as Joseph Joseph Pilgrim, Rice, Menu and many others. The Scandinavian design style has a rich history and is clearly reduced to the work of a talented group of designers in Denmark from the fifties. After the Second World War, Denmark is an ideal place for new design trends. The focus was primarily on furniture, but also architecture, jewelry, ceramics, glassware and clothing could benefit from this trend. Denmark was a relative latecomer in industrialization in the workforce. This combined with high quality craftsmanship made the cradle for the now-indispensable style of Danish Design. Inspired by the Bauhaus school, put designers such as Børge Mogensen, Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner cradle of the Danish Design in the fifties of the 20th century.Finn Juhl was born in 1912 with an authoritarian father, what a word-valve wholesaler was in Denmark and a mother who died shortly after birth. At first, Finn and art historian at a young age he spent much time in museums. His father thought that but nothing, and urged him to study architecture. He was admitted to the prestigious architectural school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Once graduated, he worked more than 10 years in an architectural office where he earlier had walked as a student internship. In 1943 he received an award for young architects.In 1945 he started a design for himself a practice in Copenhagen specializing in interior and furniture design. His first cabinet work dates already from 1937 where he worked with Niels Vodder cabinet maker.These young designers wanted the Danish Design and innovate instead of traditional elements, such as ornaments and decorations, all very modern and functional designs. Initially harvested Juhl criticism but eventually started designing an impact on the housing styles in the 40 years in Denmark. Im 1948, Juhl work spotted by the American Edgar Kaufman Jr. wrote a long article in which the leading Interiors magazine. This was the start of a glorious Career for Juhl in America, where he was refrigerators designed for General Electric. He was the one who introduces the term Danish modern Danish design which was a commonly accepted notion in the united states.