This influential chair was too provocative in 1937, but it’s finally being released
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Finn Juhl’s iconic Grasshopper chair will be manufactured for the first time in summer 2019, 82 years after it was first designed.
In 1937, the Danish designer Finn Juhl debuted a radical chair at a Copenhagen design fair. With an oversized headrest, angular arms, and low seat, the chair garnered no interested buyers. Plus, it was displayed next to a bar cabinet and posters of cocktails–a setup that viewers deemed provocative and certainly out of step with current fashions, which tended to be more traditional.