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Artist Dan Johnson (1918-79) designed furniture for many companies with the midcentury modern look. He worked in Rome and California and designed a number of lines of modern furniture, especially chairs and tables, for Danish and U.S. companies.
Johnson often used thin, patinated metal, iron or aluminum for arms, legs and seats, and added caning or fabric upholstery. All of his designs looked lightweight, but a chair with a bronze or iron frame is heavy and hard to shove into place at a dining-room table. One of his most famous designs was the Gazelle line designed in Rome and then sold in the U.S. He used metal parts patinated “Pompeian Verde,” a green color that was inspired by the excavations at Pompeii.