2x Teak Armchair Model 56 by Niels Otto Møller for J. L. Møller

The Danish furniture designer Niels Otto Møller (1920-1982) completed a cabinetmaking apprenticeship in 1939 and then studied at the Aarhus School of Design, without attending the Kunstakademiets Møbelskole. In 1944 he founded J.L. Møllers Møbelfabrik in Aarhus, which initially produced on 50 square metres in a former bicycle cellar. Over several decades he developed a series of numbered chair models, including No. 75 and No. 56 (1954), No. 77 and No. 57 (1959), No. 78 and No. 62 (1962) and the armchair No. 82 "Embassy Chair" (1970). For his furniture he preferred teak, rosewood and oak, combined with woven paper cord seats and traditional mortise and tenon joints. In this way Møller combined precise craftsmanship with modern series production.