Archive for the 'Danish Modern' Category

Shaker Furniture Made “as if You Had a Thousand Years”

Categorized Under: American Furniture, Danish Modern, Eames, Shaker Furniture, Stickley one Commented

This Shaker rocker and side table show off the style’s essential design elements including the ladderback and brightly colored cloth tape seat on the chair and straight gently curved legs of both pieces. “Do your work as if you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.” The above [...]

Arte Jacobsen: Architect, Furniture Designer and Creator of the Egg Chair

Categorized Under: Arte Jacobsen, Danish Modern, Egg Chair, Modernist No Commented

The Egg Chair at home in Room 606 of the SAS Royal Hotel for which Jacobsen designed everything from the building to the furniture. Internationally known architect, developer of the Danish modern style, and furniture designer who gave the world the Egg chair, Arte Jacobsen saw proportion as a key feature of his work. “It [...]