CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/12/2025

Imaginings and ideas in 'Finn Juhl: Life, Work, World'

Never will we tire of looking at the interior of Danish architect and designer Finn Juhl’s midcentury home and workspace. Reproduced from new release Finn Juhl: Life, Work, World, this photograph captures the balance of scale, light, texture, color and all-around stimulation and experimentation that we have come to love in this leading figure in the “golden age” of Danish furniture design. It is among 420 stunning reproductions, including archival materials, new and documentary photographs, architectural plans and renderings, and of course Juhl’s inimitable watercolors. “The modern endeavor is … an attempt to combine a moral idea about honesty, sincerity and naked function with [a] new apprehension of space, made possible by new means of construction and developed in step with new habits and structures of daily life,” Christian Bundegaard writes. “It is perhaps typical of Juhl’s sensibility and sense of synthesis that he describes this new apprehension of space as though it were a release, an almost artistic experience in which we ourselves inhabit the work of art. Space is no longer an ‘easily comprehensible volume of air but becomes moveable, dynamic … People’s free bodily movements, not following a geometric formula, appear to be symbolized by this free space, as are their imaginings and ideas.’”