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Henningsen
Poul, PH
(1894-1967). Danish
architect (advocate of
Functionalism),
writer, Critic
of Society, humanist, culture-radical and parlour Communist. PH was the fourth child of the woman writer Agnes Henningsen and
was born into radicalism.
From 1911-14 he studied architecture
at the Copenhagen technical school, and from 1914-17
at the technological college. In the period 1920-24 he was a self-employed
architect in Copenhagen sharing office space with the
architect Kay Fisker.
PH agreed with
Le Corbusier's
ideas and fight
against traditions, styles and falseness.
PH designed few
villas and industry buildings. He became first and foremost known as designer of
lamps and dragons and as a writer (debater and writer of revues). He designed his first lamp in 1926, and henceforth the lamp-production became
his main income. Experiments with Light at he firm of Louis Poulsen & Co
resulted in a lighting programme e.g. construction of
the anti-dazzle PH-lamp, which received a gold medal at the Paris
World Exhibition in 1925. In 1957 his Cone lamp was made for Copenhagen’s Langelinie
Pavilion. In 1958 the PH5-lamp was introduced, it was named
after the lamps diameter on 50 centimeters.
During World War II PH
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designed a number of lamps for Tivoli in Copenhagen,
including a spiral lamp, which can still be
seen near the Tivoli Lake, as well as a special blackout
lamp, which enabled Tivoli to stay open after sunset
during the occupation.
In 1931 PH created the famous grand piano influenced by
Bauhaus' use of steel in
furniture constructions, the grand piano was build of
steel, glass and leather. (Functionalism) |
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Snake
Chair, Snake Stool and Cafe
Table |
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Exhibition
Poster, Aarhus Music House |
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PH's
grand piano, 1931, glass, steel and leather |
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Italian Design,
stamps
issued 2000 in Italy, "Design Italiano" |
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Gaetano
Pesce, Enzo
Mari,
De Pas d'Urbino Lomazzi,
Antonio Citterio - Oliver Loew |
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Joe Colombo, Cini Boeri
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Tomu Katayanagi, Lodovico Acerbis - Giotto Stoppino |
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Gio
Ponti, Gatti Paolini Teodoro,
Massimo Morozi, Tobia Scarpa |
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Achille E Pier Giacomo
Castiglioni,
Carlo Bartoli, Aldo Rossi, Ettore
Sottsass JR. |
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Mario
Bellini, Alessandro Mendini,
Vico Magistretti, Alberto
Meda -
Paolo Rizzatto |
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Marco
Zanuso, M. De Lucchi -
G. Fassina, Bruno Munari,
Anna Castelli Ferrieri |
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Italian Design,
stamps
issued 2001 in Italy, "Design Italiano" |
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Stefano
Giovannoni, Massimiliano Datti
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Piero
Lissoni, Patricia Urquiola,
Anna
Bartoli |
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Marco
Ferreri, M. Cananzi, R. Semprini
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Anna
Gili, Miki Astori
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Ferruccio
Laviani, Massimo Losa Ghini
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Monica
Graffeo, Rodolfo Dordoni |
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Jacobsen, Arne/The Egg Man (1902-71).
Danish architect and designer. From 1924-27 he was educated at the
Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, a good
many years later, from 1956-65, he became
professor of architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was influenced by the Swiss-French architect
Le
Corbusier. From about 1930 Jacobsen showed an artistic
independence, which slowly but surely made him famous around the world.
He was the architect of e.g.: the apartment house Bellavista in
Klampenborg, 1934. The Bellevue Theatre, 1936. Terrace houses in
Klampenborg, 1954. The city halls in Aarhus together with the architect
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inaugurated in 1941, in Soelleroed together with the
architect Flemming Lassen, 1942, in Roedovre, 1957 and in Glostrup, 1958.
SAS Royal Hotel (now Radisson SAS Hotel) in Copenhagen, 1960, complete
furnished with e.g. his organic formed chairs from 1958: "The Egg" and
"The Swan" and also "The Swan Sofa", the furniture
were still produced by the Fritz Hansen firm.
Furniture Design in addition to these e.g.: "The Ant Chair",
1952. The world famous stacking chair "3107", today with its
unique timeless design just as topical as when it was introduced in 1955.
The "Tongue Chair", 1955, used in the classrooms at the Munkegaard
School (which he also designed) and in the snack bar of the Radisson SAS
Hotel. The swivel chair "Oxford", designed for St. Catherine's
College in Oxford, 1964. The dean of St. Catherine's
commissioned, in the early 1960s, Jacobsen to build an extension of the
university.
In addition to architecture and design of furniture, Jacobsen had designed
textiles, wallpapers and silverware e.g. "Cylinda-Line", 1967.
(Functionalism)
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Stackable
chair, 3 Legs "Ant Chair"*, 1952
and Aarhus
Town Hall.
Photo: Kirsten Petersen
See
also Aarhus Photos
*The furniture designer Gunnar Aagaard Andersen,
gave the Ant Chair its name.
The chair was designed for Novo's canteen.
The Ant Chair was awarded the Danish Design Centre's
ID Classic Prize in 1984.
Jacobsen also designed the Ant Chair with four legs,
it was put into production in 1971.
Se also Arne Jacobsen
holiday cottage
Kubeflex.
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Aarhus
Town Hall |
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"The
Egg",
1958 and the Mini Egg
Photo:
Kirsten Petersen |
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"The
Oxford Low Back Chair"*, 1965 |
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"The
Tongue Chair"*,
1955 |
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"Great
Danes" was issued on November 8,
2007. Designed by Torben Skov and
engraved by Lars Sjoeblom.
The series consist of 4 stamps:
4.74 kr. PH's lamp "Koglen",
1957, produced by Louis Poulsen. See
PH.
6.00 kr. Victor Borge
(1909-2000). Danish-American pianist
and entertainer. From 1940 until his
dead he stayed in the USA. In 1942
the American press appointed him
"The best new radio performer of the
year".
7,25 kr. Arne Jacobsen's "Egg Chair",
1958. designed for Royal Hotel,
today SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen.
8,25 kr. Piet Hein's "Superegg".
Inventor and Multitalented Artist.
See
Marselisborg Palace, Aarhus Denmark.
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See the whole series |
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Jensen,
Georg (1866-1935).
Danish sculptor and silversmith. From 1887-92 he studied at The
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. His workshop Georg
Jensen Silver was founded in 1904. (Jugendstyle)
Stamp issued
in Denmark 1997, "Danish Design" |
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Klint, Kaare
(1888-1954).
Danish architect and furniture designer. He was apprenticed to his
farther, P.V. Jensen-Klint the architect of Grundtvigs Church in
Copenhagen, and the architect Carl Petersen, who taught him the
traditions of Danish classical realism. To produce furniture in correct
proportions Klint became interested in the human measures and
motions. In 1923 he was engaged as teacher in the Academy of
Furniture Design, the following year he became professor. As
teacher and designer he influenced a whole new generation of
Danish furniture designers. He attached importance to supreme good
materials and perfect craftsmanlike making. Klint was the designer
of: the Faaborg-chair, 1914, designed for The Museum of Faaborg,
Funen, Denmark, the Safari Chair, 1933 and the Church Chair, 1930,
for the Bethlehems Church in Copenhagen.
Stamp issued in Denmark 1997, "Danish Design"
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Krog,
Arnold
(1856-1931). Danish painter and architect. In the 1880s he renewed the originally
Blue Fluted
China.
The eldest pattern of The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory (Royal
Copenhagen) was the hand-painted
Blue
Fluted copied freely from Meissen porcelain about 1740, the German
Meissen factory had copied it from China. In 1855 Bing
& Groendahl also started to produce the
Blue Fluted.
The Blue Fluted pattern is still painted by hand today,
nearly 1000 brush strokes are required for each piece. Royal
Copenhagen's Blue Fluted is available in three versions, Blue
Fluted Plain, Blue Fluted Half Lace and Blue Fluted Full Lace.
In
2002 Blue Fluted Mega was introduced by the designer Karen
Kjaeldgård-Larsen.
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Royal
Copenhagen's Blue Fluted pattern, stamp
issued in Denmark, 1975, "Danish
China" |
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Kukkapuro, Yrjö
(1933). Finnish furniture designer.
From 1954-58
he studied at
the Helsinki Institute of Crafts and Design under
Ilmari Tapiovaara and Olli Borg, who taught him the practical
meaning of Functionalism.
In
1959 he established his own design studio. From 1969-74 he taught
at Helsinki Polytechnic, Department of Architecture. In
the period 1974-80 he became the principal and professor of the
University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki,
and in his teaching he continued and expressed his functional
thinking - his idiom was based on a simple and clear functionality.
Stamp issued in Suomi
Finland, 1998. Karuselli/Carousel
Lounge Chair, 1965. Seat shell
and base
of fibre glass in white chromed steel. Leather upholstery |
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Mies
van der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969). German-American
architect. Leader of Bauhaus from 1930-33. (Functionalism) |
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New National
Gallery, Berlin,
1965-68 |
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Mies
van der Rohe in front of New
National
Gallery, Berlin, 1965-68 |
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Weissenhof,
1927, Stuttgart |
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"Barcelona
Chair", 1927
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Noguchi,
Isamu
(1904-1988).
Japanese-American artist. Born in Los Angeles, died in New York
City. His mother Leonie Gilmour was an American writer and his
father, Yonejiro Noguchi, a Japanese poet, his parents were divorced
in 1913, he was reunited with his father as late as in 1931. In
1922 he moved to New York and began studying medicine at Columbia
University. The following year, his mother returned to USA after
17 years in Japan, and encouraged her son to take an evening
sculpture class, which he did, and after just three month, he was
given his first exhibition and left the university. In 1927 he received
the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to Paris and the
far East. In Paris he was introduced to the Romanian
sculptor and furniture-designer Constantin Brancusi and became his
assistant for several month, afterwards he got his own studio in
Paris, where he worked on e.g. abstract sculptures. In 1928 he
returned to New York and made his living by sculpturing portraits.
In 1920 he traveled to Peking for seven moth studying brush
and ink technique.
Noguchi made simple
nonfigurative sculptures in stone and wood, furniture, rice paper
lamps and landscape-projects. "Hiroshima",
1952, a memorial for the atomic-bomb victims
in 1945.
The stone gardens for
UNESCO Headquarters,
1956-58. "Isamu Noguchi Garden
Museum" Long Island City opened in 1961.
(Abstract)
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Rosy
Angelis, 1994.
Photo: Kirsten Petersen |
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Starck,
Philip
(1949). French designer educated at École Nissim de Camondo
in Paris. |
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"Wagenfeld
table lamp", 1925
Stamp issued in Germany
1998, "Design in Deutschland" |
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Wagenfeld, Wilhelm
(1900–1990). German architect and industrial designer. His education
begun at the Silverware Factory Koch & Bergfeld. In 1918 he
attended the Drawing Academy in Hanau. In 1923 he went to Bauhaus
- the influence of the Bauhaus school made him one of the German's
leading spokesmen of the machine aesthetics (industrial design
consisting of pure lines, metal and glass - in painting Purism, a
style liberated from any decorations).
From 1931-35 he taught at the National Academy of art in Berlin. He
stayed in Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime, because of
his opposition to the he Nazi movement he was send to the East
front. After the war he became professor at the Hochschule für
Bildende Kunste in Berlin. In 1954 he established his own drawing office
in Stuttgart and worked as an independent designer until 1978.
"The Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Design Museum" in Bremen
Germany is named after him, the pioneer of German industrial
design. (Functionalism)
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Wegner,
Hans J.
(1914-2007). Danish architect and furniture designer.
Wegner was educated as cabinetmaker in 1931 and studied at the
Copenhagen school of arts and crafts from 1936-38. He worked as self-employed
architect and taught at the school
of arts and crafts' furniture design school. Besides furniture he
designed silverware, lamps and wallpapers. First and foremost he
is known for his furniture e.g. the China-chair from 1944, the
Peacock Chair from 1947, the Y-Chair from 1950, the Jacket's Rest
from 1953, The cushion chair from 1960, the Arm Chair
from 1965
and the The Round Chair/The Chair from 1949 - in 1961
Kennedy and Nixon each sat in one of these Wegner chairs during
their televised presidential debates which resulted in more
American commissions than Wegner and his factory workers could
handle.
In 1997 Wegner received The 8th International Design
Award, Osaka, Japan, the same year he became honorary doctor at
the Royal College of Art, London.
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Rocking Chair. |
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The
Round Chair/The Chair, 1949,
stamp
issued in Denmark, 1991, "Applied
Art" |
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Folding
chair PP512 |
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