[…] the world differently. Panton stated that he would rather carry out a less-than-successful experiment than some nice, neat indifference (Matz, 1995). In particular, he emphasised that he had no wish to encroach on the territory of Kaare Klint, Hans J. Wegner and Børge Mogensen, who had already created well-made, successful furniture (Helles, 1980, pp. 62-65).
[…] being talked about? In any case, there seems to be an opposition and a contradiction between plastic and nature. We have a very long tradition of fine furniture architecture based on wood. Plastic also became part of furniture design with the whole Eames-Panton tradition, but just as industrial mass production: moulded. Similar in appearance. […]
"I really like that people have developed an allergy to cheaply produced furniture." Furniture designer, Anne Brandhøj goes out to the woods and with a chainsaw, fells the trees she uses in her designs, herself. She’s aware that there’s already a lot of furniture in the world, but has found her own imperfect path […]
Johannes Foersom is a trained furniture maker and designer and one of Denmark’s most prolific furniture creators over the past 40 years. In this conversation, he looks back at his student days in light of the recent student rebellion at the Royal Danish Academy and argues that the academy ought to consider more practice-based research.
[…] ‘cold peace’. During ‘the American Century’ that now unfolded with unprecedented power in economics, politics, consumer practices and culture, new American design gained a central position on the global design map, on a par with Italian and Scandinavian design. This was especially the case within the new organic modernist furniture design and industrial product design.
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State-funded TV channel continues the same poor conditions that designers so often face. Furniture designer Chris L. Halstrøm criticizes poor payment and unpaid work as a condition in the industry.
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As I am speaking with Anker Bak about his exhibition at Officinet, it is clear to me that I am sitting across from a furniture designer with a mission. His project En ny værdighed (A New Dignitity) targets an acutely relevant topic, as ‘the elderly’ make up a growing share of society, while the […]
[…] clearly manifested in the work of the Italian Memphis Group. It was a different kind of modernism, both a critical and decorative statement on how we perceive furniture and product design - what needs they should fulfil, not only functional, but also social and psychological. The provocation of this movement was also liberating in […]
Furniture maker Alberte Svendsen has fallen in love with straw. Here, she explains why she has chosen to revive an old, French craftsmanship, where she utilizes the properties of straw to create interplay of colors, geometric shapes, and optical illusions.
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[…] found their way into my parents’ home, and they are used frequently to offer support in all sorts of situations. My parents are no longer using their furniture classics, which have a low seat height, and many pieces have gone out of use entirely because they are too hard, or the seat is too […]