A prototype of the Little Mother Sofa was manufactured in 1945, but it never went into production. Finn Juhl worked closely with master joiner Niels Vodder, who at the time gifted the prototype to his daughter Kirsten Vodder. Kirsten was married to a poet named Frank Jæger who would lie on the sofa and contemplate the complexities of life.
A close friend of the family and illustrator Jørgen Mogensen often visited the home of Kirsten Vodder and Frank Jæger, eventually inspiring him to create the comic strip “The Poet and the Little Mother” based on their daily life. For more than 50 years, the comic strip was published daily in the Danish newspaper Politiken – and for this reason, House of Finn Juhl has named the sofa after Kirsten Vodder who was the source of inspiration for the character “Little Mother”.
