The rugs and wall hangings she designed for these settings are at once calm and insistent surface features that claim their place in the room without being obstructive.
The sculptures are designed so that there is no doubt that they are depictions of animals – and in a single case, a little boy in a glass cage – but the animals are apparently blind, blinded, or at least asleep.
The town has to be designed to handle heavy rains by allowing large amounts of water to pass through without doing damage. In the old part of town, water can flow freely through the streets, which are currently being redesigned with a suitable incline towards more open areas in order to spare the houses.
And conversely, we should recognize that there is far more to craft than its designation as ‘non-academic’ would leave us to believe. Crafts in a digital age Dive into the history of Danish crafts and design The archive contains further information on the subject.
In the exhibition, the museum has invited the three prominent Danish ceramicists Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Manuel Canu and Marianne Nielsen to interpret and revive the historical Danish design movement Skønvirke from around 1900.
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