Made by R. Skovgaard, Ørum. Teak and artificial leather. Denmark, 1960s. Height 82 cm, seat height 45 cm, armrest height 69.3 cm, width 65 cm, depth 55 cm.
Erik Buch was born in 1923 in Copenhagen; there he trained initially as a cabinetmaker and then studied furniture design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, having Finn Juhl amongst his teachers.
In the same city, in the late 1940s Buch opened his own workshop, where he started designing and making furniture.
He took part to a number of exhibitions including the National Association of Danish Crafts shows in 1951, 1956, 1957 and 1958, the Spring exhibition in Charlottenborg in 1952, and the Furniture Dealers Association's exhibitions from 1952 to 1957. Buch won awards in the Carpenters' Guild competitions in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1954, in the Goldsmith's Association's competition in 1950, and in the Furniture Dealer's competition in 1951.
Some of his designs were produced on a larger scale by makers such as Chr. Christiansen, Ørum Skovgaard Jensen Møbler's and Dyrlund.
Famous chairs and stools by Buch are the ‘Model 49’ chair, dating to 1949 indeed, which was produced in two variants, as a dining- as well as a lounge chair, the ‘Captain chair’ dating to 1955-57, the ‘Model 61’ barstool and the ‘Model 61’ dining chair.
Buch’s pieces boost an ‘organic’ aesthetics, reminiscent of Finn Juhl’s, with curves nearly always preferred to straight lines; he designed storage pieces and mainly seatings where woods such as teak, oak and rosewood were upholstered in fabric, real or artificial leather.
