(Above) NONNO // Jeannett Højer
(Left) WAFFLE SIDEBOARD // Sarah Cramer & Anders Engholm
A team of teachers and external supervisors asked furniture design students from the 6th semester at VIA Teko Design & Business What made Danish design from the forties, fifties and sixties so successful? And, What can we learn from the approach by the Danish designers of that era?
The process was short and intense. The students had less than one month from the date the project was assigned to complete their designs. The main themes of the approach are exploiting the properties of the materials, focusing on detail and optimizing methods in industrial production. Based in the past and with present lifestyle in mind they presented 14 new designs, which all are promising bids to continue this tradition.
Here were our favorites.
WAFFLE BENCH // Anders Engholm & Sarah Cramer
NOMAD ROCKER // Anker Bak
ALMA // Carina Fyhn Beuchert
PI // Carina Maria Mølgaard Nielsen
WOOLY // Gro?a O?lo?f Þorgeirsdo?ttir
LS1 // Lasse Sortkjær
TRIO LAMP // Louise Mengel
DB 100 // Monique Consentino
Photos by Jannick Børlum