Jump to content

RARE COT Danish JUNO COT by Viggo Einfeldt 1940's Midcentury Modern Cotbed Sebra ?300 ONO


Recommended Posts

I have for sale an original vintage cot bed designed in 1941 by legendary Danish architect Viggo Einfeldt. This is an extremely rare item, a midcentury modern design classic. It is an original wooden Juno cot, my parents bought it second hand in the 1960's and it's been slept in by lots of lovely babies including myself and my daughter. This cot has been remade under the name Sebra but this is an original Juno (I think it's the Juno 2). The cot can be extended and sides removed to make a toddler bed. Measures (as a cot) width 68cm, length 110cm, height 83cm. Overall condition is great for its age, it's been repainted over the years and some holes have been made in both sides this was to add screws & washers to keep the cot sides securely in place. I had a mattress made to fit it for my daughter and also a little extender piece for when it was converted in to a cot bed by a great Welsh company called Abaca Ltd, I can include a barely used mattress (no extender)if wanted. Price ?300 ONO (cash on collection) if buyer can collect by Weds 29th March from Goose Green end of Lordship Lane SE22


History of Juno

Viggo Einfeldt was not a furniture designer but an architect with his own design studio, a thriving business that thrived fine, until the German occupation of Denmark sat mostly construction halt.


After the occupation, it was almost impossible to obtain building materials, the bit which was available, was used by the Germans themselves, and would not be in the German construction, had to necessarily think in new ways if the transaction were to survive.


The two models are very similar, the shapes are soft and round, and both models sitting round stick know of grilles and gables so close that no heads can be trapped, but not closer than the child's sense of touch and vision is preserved.


Juno 2 was next to the family, it is the best known of the two, the one with the short poles in the side and that many know as the " Small Per bed'



This model was cheaper to produce, and as the first guard, can put grids within the bed, right down to bottom so as to create a lower grille.


Both models were also supplied with the original JUNO MATTRESSES, a two-piece mattress and an extra mattress piece, ready for use when the bed to "grow with the child."


Both beds were carefully thought through quality products.


The shapes were round and kid-friendly, and the beds were neat in their pretty pastel colors, white, cream, light blue, pink, light yellow and light green.


It was a beautiful sight when the freshly painted beds in the fine colors were lined up for curing before being packed and picked up by the hauler, and run on to Illum, Magasin, Daells Department store, Crome & Goldsmith and many other customers across the country.


It was the architect's thirteen year old daughter who was allowed to name the new bed. She was inspired by Salmon's Encyclopedia and the goddess Juno, "the divine protector of her life as a wife and mother" (Salmon's Lexicon Volume 13, page 251), and Juno was a good name for the new bed.


Under the motto "BED THAT GROWS WITH THE CHILD" went the sale of Juno bed swimmingly, it was actually hard to keep up with demand, mostly because of the perpetual shortage of materials.


It was still difficult to obtain both paint and wood, but in spite of this production was soon anyway so great that Viggo Einfeldt had to move "Bed Factory Default" from Holbergsgade 20 in Copenhagen to larger premises in New Vesterg?rdsvej in Lille V?rl?se.


Viggo Einfeldt died in 1955 , but the old beds are still living, and living well, the style is timeless and fits nicely in future interior. Today, new cots approved by the authorities, the Juno bed could obtain such approval, I could not say, I just know that Viggo Einfeldt was among the first who were interested in the child's safety, he made a good product, and I've never heard of any unfortunate incident with a Juno bed.


Now bed several years behind than the architect himself was, time will tell how many more it gets, but I predict that many yet, for good and thoughtful design lasts long.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Latest Discussions

    • I am sure our lovely Evri delivery team, who do a firkin hard job, take the time between drops to read the East Dulwich Forum 🤫
    • For every person like OP that moans their doorbell was rung and there was a knock on the door, there's someone else moaning that they didn't hear the delivery drivers. If you've ever done delivery work you'll know that loads of people's bells don't work. The delivery drivers probably goes to a hundred doors a day: press bell, knock door, drop package, move on. If you don't like delivery drivers, insist on delivery by Royal Mail where the workers have wages and a union - or just stop ordering shit online that's artificially cheap. But most of us (me included) don't want that
    • If someone comes to my house and bangs my door and slams my gate, I'd speak to them about it nicely and ask if they would please not do that. And then subsequently less nicely if they keep doing it, ending in reporting them.  We don't slam doors at home and I don't put up with that either. I can see us moving to a culture where we bribe drivers to be nice by tipping them, but we shouldn't have to. It's not necessary - does not matter if they are on minimum wage or not, or if society means that delivery services are outsourced or whatever reason anyone would like to concoct.     
    • We’ve got a gap on the roof of our shed that needs patching  don’t want to buy a huge roll so hoping someone has some leftover  happy to collect/reimburse 
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
Ă—
Ă—
  • Create New...