Finn Juhl Chieftain Chair Model 435 – Mid-Century Modern Black Leather Lounge Chair
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description: The BreuerHome Chieftain Chair is a faithful reproduction of Finn Juhl's 1949 masterpiece — a broad, sculptural lounge chair whose seat and back appear to float inside a hand-shaped solid oak frame. Black top-grain genuine leather, a deep walnut stain, and 1:1 original proportions make it the piece a room is arranged around rather than furnished with. Two Chieftain chairs turned toward each other — the arrangement Finn Juhl intended, and the reason the chair reads as architecture rather than upholstery. About Finn Juhl and the Chieftain Chair Finn Juhl (1912–1989) trained as an architect and became the first Danish furniture designer to be recognised internationally — the man most responsible for carrying Danish Modern to American living rooms in the 1950s. Where his contemporaries pursued strict functionalism, Juhl looked to modern sculpture and to the artefacts of distant cultures, and drew furniture that behaved like free-standing art. The Chieftain Chair was unveiled at the 1949 Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition in Copenhagen and stole the show with its unprecedented scale and daring silhouette. When King Frederik IX sat down in it, a journalist proposed calling it "the King's Chair." Juhl demurred: "You had better call it a chieftain's chair." Its shield-like back and spear-shaped armrests carry echoes of ceremonial weaponry, while the seat and back float clear of the frame — Juhl's signature separation of structure and support. It is widely regarded as the summit of his career, and our reproduction honours that silhouette and proportion while making the icon attainable. Materials & Craftsmanship Upholstery: black top-grain genuine cowhide leather, cut and stitched over separately shaped seat, back and armrest pads, with four hand-set buttons across the backrest. Frame: solid oak in a hand-applied walnut stain, with sculpted tapering legs and the crossed under-rail that gives the chair its forward lean. Joinery: exposed, hand-fitted joints in the Danish cabinetma…
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