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The Danish company has opened a hotel in Hakuba. The furnishings are all by House of Finn Juhl and the hotel is the finest example of the japandi style where Japan and Scandinavia meet.
Much more than a passing trend: the japandi style, a fusion of Japan and Scandinavia, becomes reality and is expressed in an exemplary way in one of the most interesting contract projects by House of Finn Juhl.
The Danish company that produces the furnishings of one of the greatest exponents of the Scandinavian school of the 20th century, has created a hotel among the Japanese peaks of the small town of Hakuba not far from Nagano. An out of the ordinary choice but very similar to the company’s aesthetics since the soft and essential lines and the prevalent and skilful use of wood bring Danish design and Japanese design together.
Hakuba is a mountain jewel immersed in the Japanese Alps and this setting lends itself perfectly to hosting a structure entirely furnished by Finn Juhl and which reflects his philosophy even in the small daily attentions.
A philosophy that looks at the quality of life and things, which prefers a whispered luxury, the luxury of those who know how to appreciate, for example, furniture produced by hand and to order.
There are six room types, and they are like a journey into Finn Juhl’s production since they take their name, and the furnishings, from as many milestones of the designer and the company.
The Poet room takes its name from the Poet sofa, the two-seater sofa designed in 1941 baptized with this name precisely because a poet was imagined sitting there in contemplation. An image similar to the vocation of the hotel, designed to invite its guests to relax and slow down. Naturally the Poet sofa is present inside the room as is the Nyhavn Table which, placed against the wall, acts as a desk for the “poet-guest” who chooses this room.
The iconic Chieftan chair offers the name, and the theme, to a second type of room: here the seat welcomes moments of relaxation thanks to its wooden structure and the enveloping cushions covered in leather.
The Chieftain is one of the most famous designs and is loved both for its unique style and for the actual comfort it offers.
It is no coincidence that its organic forms have been the inspiration for many other armchairs and chairs of the modern Danish tradition.
And it is another famous seat, the France chair, that gives its name to the third type of room at the Hakuba hotel. In the France room, in addition to this essential wooden and leather chair, there is also a Nyhavn Desk.
In the Japan room, which takes its name from the Japan series by Finn Juhl, there is the two-seater sofa from this collection and the inevitable Nyhavn desk. Behind the sofa, a large design sketch by Finn Juhl decorates and makes the wall special.
Last type of room, but not least in importance, is the Pelican room which naturally takes its name from the famous and iconic armchair characterized by organic shapes and the backrest that embraces its guest.
This armchair stands out from the others by Finn Juhl to the extent that it reveals the designer’s fascination for surrealism which is expressed precisely in the shape full of extreme curves and in the proportions, new but always a guarantee of comfort.
Precisely because of its eclectic shape, the armchair, designed in 1940, was originally produced in a small number of examples only to be rediscovered and successfully relaunched in 2001 by House of Finn Juhl.
The company, also in this case, has collected the design legacy of the Danish designer to tell it with respect and faithfulness and hand it over to future generations.
