The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America Taft Maggie
The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America Taft Maggie A history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish…
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The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America Taft Maggie
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. But how did this happen? During the 1950s and '60s, it flourished as the furniture choice for Americans who hoped to signal they were current and chic.
In The Chieftain and the Chair, Maggie Taft tells the tale of our love affair with Danish Modern design. How did Danish Modern become the design movement of the times? 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
In the Chair