Wonderful film on Scandinavain furniture! It has been my great good fortune, was my first job after gradutation from universary as an interior designer was in a small store that imported fine scandinavian furniture. I still sit on my mother's Dux armless teak chairs everyday. I have passed on my orginial furniture to my children. My son has the coffee table, my daughter the chest of drawers, these pieces were from 1964. Now at 80 years old, and the first female in my architecure class at universary, and cannot tell you how much I appreciate the quality, the design, and the appreciation for the opportunity to fall in love with Scandinvaian design.
Thank you for help breaking the barriers for for women working as educated professionals. I was born in 1959 and experienced the BS from the small males. I have always heard Denmark had rational people! Hello ftom dunny and warm St. Petersburg, Florida.
The story of danish furniture is such a great story to tell. Modernist furniture in general owes so much to Scandinavia, it's always great to recognize its role in the furniture we use today. I get most of my stuff from Manhattan Home Design and its all mid-century modern, many items with a distinctive Scandinavian vibe. I love this style so much.
Lovely documentary. My only negative comment surrounds the current educational environment and the handling of the Danish traditions. Louise Campbell said 'it is foreigners who understand Danish design'. She only says this because of how deficient her education was and it is the educators who have failed her, the Danish people and the world of such perfection.
I'm sorry but I think you just missed one of the essentials of this documentairy or design. It's not about quantity (more more), it's about quality and style.
That Florida home is furnished like a store. Few pieces that owners added to interior that are not MCM are hideous and random antiques that clash with the rest. The constant presence of folded Hermes blanket in the frame just adds to the vapid shallowness of it all. P.S. Swan and Egg chairs are wonderful to look at but they are the most uncomfortable pieces to sit on, not unlike Herman Miller benches (beautiful but unusable).
I was thinking the same thing - it seemed like a poor choice for inclusion in the film and served more as a “what happens when the space designer has lost all connection with the beauty and intention of the pieces.” That said, if they’re happy with it, power to them... it just feels like a very surface interpretation of the Danish design concepts that incorporates a lot of bizarre color choices and some other icky furniture/material clashing and status flashing. It’s too bad... I work in Operations management and I see this in poorly-designed offices allover the US.
Speaking of Herman Miller... the office I began managing last year had four of those Eames Wire Chairs, which have become the lovely sculptural bane of my existence. Totally unusable and a pain to move around the space.
My mother bought two egg chairs - just beautiful to look at, but not comfortable to sit in, and forever breaking down in the ball race of bearings that supported the superstructure on an impossibly small and frail connection to the base. They were nothing but useless mixed media sculptures.
From the looks of the finished restaurant, MOMA didn't buy any furniture from either Wegner, or Jacobsen. That's too bad, because the restaurant looks shoddy.
So great and im drawn to this furniture.i have a ball chair,egg,barcelona and getting a swan maybe next month.replicas of course.i want a ro or even pk20 replica.
Единственное направление в дизайне где автор не просто гениален(датчане)но ещё и скромный и не украшает мебель элементами "аристократическими"и пустыми.Сравнить можно только с Японией и хорошей "старой"итальянской школой.И даже понимая что пик "Датских принцев"пришелся на 60-е годы ,все равно это и сейчас уникальный подход и исполнение.А женские дизайнерские украшения от датчан(серебро)считаю лучшими ....
Dear Tom, Would it be possible to get permission to use this amazing documentary about danish design. We Hotel Alexandra is a small, unique boutique hotel in Copenhagen. We have dedicated all of our hotel to mid-century danish design. This video is the essence of the hotel and it's ambiance. We would be extremely happy, if we could be allowed to use this video and bits of it for both our website, SOME and app. Thank you very much. Best Regards Nicolai Hotel Alexandra
If you looking for mid-century Danish design, don't hesitate to contact me. We will find what you searching for and are located in the middle of Denmark. Kind regards, Rasmus
The fella from GUBI sounds like he's not interested in preserving your Danish furniture making traditions... Globalization? Such a statement is ignorance at worst, shameful at best. Godbless the Danish Craftsmen.
There is an emergence of new craftsman in England that find it difficult to get exposure, there is a young man by the name of Joe Mcnamara The Lucent Crow, www.thelucentcrow.co.uk that makes beautiful fine furniture.
