The Wall Sofa | Finn Juhl | 1950
Designed in 1950, the Wall Sofa exemplifies Finn Juhl’s inspiration from the free art movement of his era, as well as his boundary-crossing ambition to defy gravity and create a sense of movement. Its uniquely asymmetrical, excessively upholstered backrest almost floats like a cloud by René Magritte above the also levitating seat carried by an almost invisible frame. The sofa is upholstered by hand in Denmark in textile. The painted frame in a powder coated steel tube is mounted to the wall, hence the name of the sofa.
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Design:
Finn Juhl
Year:
1950, relaunched in 2007
Materials:
Frame: Light grey, bended frame in powder coated steel tube.
Upholstery:
Textile
Model and Dimensions:
FJ 5000
W: 192 cm | D: 80 cm | H: 102 cm | Seat height: 40 cm | The sofa is also available in a reverse option with the high back on the left side, item no. FJ 5001.
Designed in 1950, the Wall Sofa exemplifies Finn Juhl’s inspiration from the free art movement of his era, as well as his boundary-crossing ambition to defy gravity and create a sense of movement. Its uniquely asymmetrical, excessively upholstered backrest almost floats like a cloud by René Magritte above the also levitating seat carried by an almost invisible frame. The sofa is upholstered by hand in Denmark in textile. The painted frame in a powder coated steel tube is mounted to the wall, hence the name of the sofa.
Design:
Finn Juhl
Year:
1950, relaunched in 2007
Materials:
Frame: Light grey, bended frame in powder coated steel tube.
Upholstery:
Textile
Model and Dimensions:
FJ 5000
W: 192 cm | D: 80 cm | H: 102 cm | Seat height: 40 cm | The sofa is also available in a reverse option with the high back on the left side, item no. FJ 5001.
The Sculptural Shapes
Finn Juhl featured this sofa in several of his interior design projects such as Villa Aubertin in Denmark, which he designed in 1952, and in the museum Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustri-museum in Trondheim, Norway. At the museum, he was commissioned to design a showroom with modern furniture and crafts representing a modern 1952 interior style.
Finn Juhl’s extravagantly upholstered chairs and sofas from the 1940s and early 1950s are deeply original. No other furniture designer has so radically expressed the surrealistic sculptural shapes that dominated this time, as a parallel to the trends reigning on the art scene.
Boundary-Crossing Design
The asymmetrical, excessively upholstered backrest on this sofa almost floats like a cloud by René Magritte above the also levitating seat carried by an almost invisible frame. The unusually shaped back is well-suited for the human body and facilitates several comfortable ways to sit.
The sofa is upholstered by hand in textile. The painted frame in powder coated steel tube is mounted to the wall, hence the name of the sofa.
