{"id":20012,"date":"2014-07-30T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=20012"},"modified":"2014-07-18T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:08:41","slug":"chieftains-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/furnishings\/chieftains-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Chieftains Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we originally posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwr.com\/product\/living\/chairs-recliners\/chairs\/chieftains-chair.do\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Chieftains Chair<\/a> designed by Finn Juhl, it was 2011 and it cost $11,500. Today&#8217;s price finds it at $17,175, which, unfortunately, is much higher than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usinflationcalculator.com\" target=\"_blank\" >rate of inflation<\/a>. And so goes the world of design classics and their price fluctuations. <\/p>\n<p>Inspired by primitive weaponry, Juhl originally created the chair for the 1949 Cabinetmakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild in Copenhagen. I&#8217;ve long admired this chair, and while the price is firmly outside of any budget I might have in the foreseeable future, I can still appreciate the slight curves and teak and walnut frame that have made it one of the more iconic pieces of mid century design.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis original is an authentic, fully licensed product of Onecollection, House of Finn Juhl\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<br \/>\nMade in Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>Materials: Teak and walnut frame; leather upholstery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/chieftans-chair-2.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finn Juhl believed that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the craftsman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to form is probably the same as that of a sculptor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>From our archives; originally posted May 12, 2011.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we originally posted the Chieftains Chair designed by Finn Juhl, it was 2011 and it cost $11,500. Today&#8217;s price finds it at $17,175, which, unfortunately, is much higher than the rate of inflation. And so goes the world of design classics and their price fluctuations. Inspired by primitive weaponry, Juhl originally created the chair [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115,136,131],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/chieftans-chair-21.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27892,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions\/27892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}