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ISBN
9780226550329
Book Title
Chieftain and the Chair : the Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America
Item Length
7.5in
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Year
2023
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Maggie Taft
Genre
Design
Topic
History & Criticism, Furniture, Decorative Arts
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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A history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort. Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. During the 1950s and '60s, it flourished as the furniture choice for Americans who hoped to signal they were current and chic. But how did this happen? How did Danish Modern become the design movement of the times? In The Chieftain and the Chair, Maggie Taft tells the tale of our love affair with Danish Modern design. Structured as a biography of two iconic chairs--Finn Juhl's Chieftain Chair and Hans Wegner's Round Chair, both designed and first fabricated in 1949--this book follows the chairs from conception and fabrication through marketing, distribution, and use. Drawing on research in public and private archives, Taft considers how political, economic, and cultural forces in interwar Denmark laid the foundations for the postwar furniture industry, and she tracks the deliberate maneuvering on the part of Danish creatives and manufacturers to cater to an American market. Taft also reveals how American tastemakers and industrialists were eager to harness Danish design to serve American interests and how furniture manufacturers around the world were quick to capitalize on the fad by flooding the market with copies. Sleek and minimalist, Danish Modern has experienced a resurgence of popularity in the last few decades and remains a sought-after design. This accessible and engaging history offers a unique look at its enduring rise among tastemakers.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022655032x
ISBN-13
9780226550329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12058356662

Product Key Features

Book Title
Chieftain and the Chair : the Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America
Author
Maggie Taft
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Furniture, Decorative Arts
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Design
Number of Pages
184 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Nk2585.T34 2023
Reviews
In The Chieftain and the Chair, Taft provides a rich backstory to two fundamentally familiar mid-century furniture forms. By mining Danish-language archives and obscure American repositories, Taft makes the history of these chairs accessible to an English-speaking audience. Danish design was constructed to appeal to American consumers and American taste, as The Chieftain and the Chair deftly demonstrates., In this thorough exploration of two iconic Danish chairs, Taft looks to debunk old myths and makes a convincing case for a reexamination of Danish design and how it shaped the story of not only Danish modern, but also the evolution of modern design from New York to Chicago, North Dakota to Los Angeles, in post-war America., This fascinating book makes a great addition to the literature of modern design and the small scale of the book makes it possible to carry., This book is a clever conceit--it uses two exceedingly famous chairs, Finn Juhl's the Chieftain and Hans Wegner's the Chair, to narrate a specific history about the creation, consumption, marketing, and reception of Danish Modern in the United States. These chairs are diplomatic actors in the drama that unfolds surrounding the small, but mighty country of Denmark making furniture for an export market in the United States, in which one could not exist without the other. The Chieftain and the Chair is a fresh and succinct contribution to Nordic design studies., "Taft explores the history of Danish modern design through two pieces of furniture: Hans Wegner's Round Chair, better known as simply "the Chair," and Finn Juhl's Chieftain reading chair. The former is a basic dining chair, designed as part of a set, whose defining element is a single, semicircular wooden form that serves as both back and armrests--hence the "Round" in its moniker. The latter is a cushioned chair upholstered in leather, with wide armrests and a high, regal back rising above its seat. Their differences--the Chair's slight size and the Chieftain's heftiness; the Chair's huge popularity in America and the Chieftain's relative lack thereof; Juhl's architectural education and Wegner's training in cabinetmaking--allow Taft to develop a succinct but multilayered history of Danish Modernism.", We may take Danish Modern for granted. But as Taft shows in her absorbing story, the furniture aesthetic was less an expression of national spirit than a complex product of colonial relationships, protectionism, state intervention, and transatlantic salesmanship., How did Danish Modern become a byword for mid-century cool in the United States? This study of two chairs made in 1949--The Chieftain by Finn Juhl and Round Chair by Hans Wegner--explores this tale of transcontinental tastemaking., [Taft's] story is not one of heroic artistic choices, but of compromises made for manufacturing at scale, successive counterfeits, the dispersal of a once-original style. . . . Taft tells the story with quick, fluid prose and a plethora of period texts, photographs, and scenes, taking us from the craftsmanship of the Copenhagen Museum of Industrial Art's Cabinetmaker Day School, where Wegner trained as a joiner in the thirties, to the TV appearance of a pair of Wegner's chairs in the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960., A prolific author with contributions to national arts and design publications, Taft presents a deeply researched yet thoroughly accessible examination of the multidimensional impact of two reigning chairs and, more broadly, inspired artistic expression., Danish design (or at least stuff that looks like it) has been a fixture of American interior decoration since it was first imported in the 1950s. Pieces like Hans Wegner's Round Chair and Finn Juhl's Chieftain are ubiquitous, so it's easy to forget that someone had to make people believe they were emblems of middle-class good taste before, you know, they actually were. Taft, an art historian and writer, uses this clear, tight book to trace the origins of these objects and in doing so demolishes some of the many myths about a field you know and (might) love., The Wegner chair is one of two pieces that Maggie Taft considers in her new book The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar Americ a. The other is the Chieftain chair designed by Finn Juhl. Together, the two seem to capture two different forms of aspiration. . . .The most famous Scandi furniture now comes in flat packs, bought cheaply with a stop-off to the cafeteria for a helping of frozen meatballs with lingonberry jam. But the original appeal of Danish furniture was deeper: It promised craftsmanship at a time of ramped-up assembly line production and the pared-down aesthetic of natural wood when the space age look of new materials was ascendant. As Taft shows, these qualities were closely linked to Danish political culture in the postwar years--to its progressive thinking, vibrant democratic principles, and above all its emerging welfare state., Using concise and accessible language, The Chieftain and the Chair shows how the Danish furniture industry was directed to serve the American market, being also reshaped along the way., "Centering her study on Finn Juhl's Chieftain Chair and Hans Wegner's Round Chair, Taft shows how a small segment of the Danish furniture market--soon folded into a broader "Scandinavian" aesthetic, cannily developed and marketed for the booming American economy--came to rule both sides of the Atlantic."
Copyright Date
2023
Lccn
2022-049679
Dewey Decimal
749.09489
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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