Summary
As a young man, Arnold Madsen worked as a sailor. Madsen & Schübell produced scores of well-regarded furniture pieces in the mid-20th-century. Madson was good with his hands, and by 1941 had opened his own upholstery shop.
Madsen & Schübell produced furniture throughout the 1940s, '50s and '60s out of their shop in Copenhagen. The Clam chair is one of the most sought-after and simultaneously misattributed and copied chair designs of the twentieth century. Another hit of theirs was the Oda chair, which used an unusual-for-the-time steel frame.
"We're no longer selling vintage ones in high numbers," FitzGerald says. "The ones that are left are incredibly expensive" The asking price for a vintage Madsen is about $8,000. "We're not selling them," Fitzgerald says, "we're just selling them to people who want them"
