Faces of Danish Modern

Schlagwort: 1940ies

  • Henry Schubell 1906-2001

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    Henry Hans Schubell was an experienced cabinetmaker at the age of 38 when he received an inquiry from Arnold Johan Madsen in 1944 to make a frame for an armchair. Madsen had a plaster model with him, and Schubell immediately saw that it would not be easy. Several cabinetmakers had already refused the task because…

  • Arnold Madsen (1907-1989)

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    Arnold Madsen is still relatively unknown as a designer, but together with his business partner Henry Schubell he was responsible for a number of chairs that made history. The biggest yet still untold story, however, seems to be the chair that started the story of Madsen and Schubell. It was none other than the Clam…