Niels Otto Møller

Niels Otto Møller (1920–1982) was a Danish cabinetmaker and furniture architect who founded J.L. Møllers Møbelfabrik in Aarhus in 1944. Rather than the academy training of contemporaries such as Arne Jacobsen, he built his reputation on craftsmanship, designing a long series of numbered dining chairs — including the No. 71 and the ‘Embassy Chair’ No. 82 — in teak, rosewood and oak that were exported to Germany and the United States from the 1950s onward. His work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and he received the Danish Furniture Industry Furniture Award in 1981.

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