New Danish Designs for UN HQ
Sixty years ago, Danish architect Finn Juhl designed the interior of the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The space is undergoing a major restoration and renovation, and when it's completed in approximately two years, the works of a new generation of Danish designers will also grace the space. In December, the Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Crafts and Design invited five designers to participate in a furniture competition to "reinvent Danish classics" and last week, the winner was announced.
In the presence of the queen of Denmark in a ceremony at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the committee awarded Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard as the winners of the competition. Shown here is a rendering of their meeting table and chair designs. Salto and Sigsgaard clearly took inspiration from Arne Jacobsen's Swan Chair for Fritz Hansen, originally designed for the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in 1958.
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