The Chieftain and the Chair by Maggie Taft;

Author:Maggie Taft; [Taft, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DES000000 DESIGN / General, DES006000 DESIGN / Furniture, DES008000 DESIGN / History & Criticism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 3.5 Advertisement for George Tanier Inc., ca. 1958. © Nanna Tanier.

Tastemakers deployed Danish design as a marker of democratic American values, fitting it into a field defined, as Juhl relayed, by the popular industry slogan “American furniture for American citizens.”55 Whether or not the assertion of Danish/American likeness was why consumers bought the furniture, it penetrated their impression of Danish design and of Denmark more broadly. Doris Scherbak, for example, told Fischer that her American friends in Paris preferred to hire Scandinavian cleaning women. “I suppose because so few Americans speak French well enough to manage with French help,” she speculated. “But also because the Scandinavian girls are more used to doing things as we do things.”56

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