| cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, | | | | Laritzen for 11 years, learning what it was like to |
| but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad | | | | be an architect and giving him the experience he |
| ones." – Finn Juhl | | | | needed later down the road. He won an award |
| Frederiksberg, Denmark witnessed the birth of | | | | for designing his own home in 1942 and while |
| furniture designer Finn Juhl on January 20, 1912. | | | | working for Laritzen, Finn Juhl had the opportunity |
| The son of textile wholesaler, Finn Juhl enjoyed | | | | to also work with Viggo Boesen on the Danish |
| the Royal Museum of Fine Arts and could be | | | | Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Building. |
| found there quite often. He wanted to be an art | | | | Finn Juhl is not credited for designing this building, |
| historian, but his father’s practical thinking | | | | but every aspect of design – especially the |
| prodded him into attending the Royal Academy of | | | | interior – was heightened in the building, |
| Arts instead. Often looked upon as a very quiet | | | | leaving his mark on it for evermore. He left |
| man, Finn Juhl earned himself an architect degree | | | | Laritzen’s firm to open his own in 1945, |
| which he later used to design interiors such as | | | | turning his attention on interior design and |
| those found in the chambers of the UN in New | | | | furniture. He had been exhibiting his own designs |
| York City. His furniture designs, especially his | | | | prior to leaving the architect firm, including one in |
| chairs, are what he is truly remembered for and | | | | conjunction with cabinetmaker Niels Vodder that |
| secured his place in modernism design. | | | | was displayed at the 11th Annual Copenhagen |
| Finn Juhl worked in the offices of architect Vilhelm | | | | Cabinetmaker’s Guild. |