Danske stole

Danish furniture design
 

-Is it possible to see whether a chair is designed by a man or a woman?
-Is it possible to see if a chair is Danish?
-Can chairs communicate power?
-Can furniture help os to communicate?
-Does the chair have more than one function?
 
The current chair exhibition provides a different view upon the Danish classical chairs and allows the guest to make their own assumptions.

The furniture collection at Trapholt charts the development of Danish furniture design from the beginning of the twentieth century up until the present day. Many of the collection’s earlier works bear the mark of Kaare Klint and his students, who worked with traditional types of furniture, and continued to use wood and the special skills required to work with it - unlike Bauhaus-inspired designers in other countries, who were mass-producing steel furniture.

The functionalism of the 1930s is represented by designers such as Mogens Lassen and Poul Henningsen, while Børge Mogensen, Hans J. Wegner

Finn Juhl and Mogens Koch represent the "Golden Age" of the 1940s and ’50s.

The industrialisation of furniture production following the end of World War II is represented by a broad selection of the works of Arne Jacobsen, who, like Poul Kjærholm, took full advantage of the period’s new materials and methods of production.

The new forms of living and socialising that arose during the 1960s are represented in the works of Verner Panton, while today’s generation of designers who have made important and original contributions to the tradition are represented in works by names such as Nanna Ditzel, Niels Gammelgaard, Niels Jørgen Haugesen, Bernt Pedersen and Torben Skov.