Pelican by Finn Juhl

Pelican by Finn Juhl

Chair designed by Finn Juhl back in 1940 and manufactured by House of Finn Juhl.

When you look at it, you immediately notice the extreme comfort and coziness of the chair.

It feels like this chair embraces us, it’s one body enveloping another body. And on top of that, it’s certainly not an armchair that looks 80 years old. On the contrary, it looks like a modern-day object. The extreme mastery of the designer led him to design it in an extremely modern form. And it is precisely for this reason that, when it was proposed in the 1940s, it was not so successful, because it was too projected into the future compared to the forms of those years. Daughter of the best Scandinavian origins, it uses simple and natural materials, which make the contact even more pleasant. The seat is inspired by the works of painting and sculpture of the Dadaist artist Jean Arp, and so once again design merges with art.

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