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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 inte

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Author

Maggie Taft.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction