Danish Furniture and Design
Danish furniture, lighting and silver, best known for the mid-century partnership between architects and master cabinetmakers.
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Denmark's modern furniture grew out of a classroom. From 1924 Kaare Klint taught furniture design at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, measuring bodies and household objects and refining proven types such as Georgian chairs and folding campaign furniture. From 1927 the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild held yearly exhibitions pairing young architects with master craftsmen, and many classics came from those pairings: Finn Juhl's sculpted Chieftain Chair (1949), made by Niels Vodder, and Hans J. Wegner's chairs for Johannes Hansen.
Industry followed. Arne Jacobsen designed stacking plywood chairs for Fritz Hansen and nearly every detail of Copenhagen's SAS Royal Hotel, while Poul Kjærholm handled steel and leather with a cabinetmaker's precision. Look for oiled teak and oak, softened edges, paper-cord seats and joints left in view. Poul Henningsen's layered lampshades, first shown in the 1920s, and Georg Jensen's silver carry the tradition beyond furniture.
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