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In 1954 France & Daverkosen accounted for 60% of all Danish furniture exports and the factory employed 350 people at its peak. In 1957, the company changed its name to France & Son, when his son James France joined the company. In 1966 the company was sold to Poul Cadovius.
The France Chair, or the FJ 136 as it is also known, was designed for the American market in the late 1950s. It was originally...