New Danish Designs for UN HQ
-
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. -
Shown here is Salto and Sigsgaard's design for the chamber. Each designer's challenge for the competition was to "prove that they could master the task of experimenting within the internationally renowned Danish furniture tradition, while respecting the legacy of one of its greatest masters, Finn Juhl." -
Christian Flindt was another designer invited to participate in the competition. His design for a meeting table that can quickly be moved out of the way was quite appealing (save for the strange metal contraption with wheels, seemingly making the table legs redundant). Here the table is shown assembled and ready to be used. -
In this image, the table's legs have been removed and placed on their respective hanging hooks. -
Here, the table has been completely disassembled and hung on the wall. Its underside creates the look of a wall panel rather than a table in storage. -
Flindt's chair design is a clear nod to the work of Hans Wegner. -
Designer Søren Ulrik Petersen's chair design also appears Wegner-inspired. -
Though many elements of these speaker tables are nonnegotiable, Petersen's panel details add a nice touch. -
Designer Mia Gammelgaard's proposal featured clean, crisp surfaces with color accents in the chairs. -
Gammelgaard's task chair, with its tall, slim profile, resembles Arne Jacobsen's Oxford chair—just with cushioned pads. -
Designer Hans Sandgren Jakobsen's chair design also had an Oxford-like look to it. -
Jackobsen's proposed table folds down to a slim profile for storage, though it could also easily act as long console in a pinch.Don't miss a word of Dwell! Download our FREE app from iTunes, friend us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter!
Categories:
More
Finn Juhl Centennial at Designmuseum Danmark
This fall we had the opportunity to pay a visit to Copenhagen, Denmark, where design buffs and locals alike are honoring what would have been the 100th birthday of one of the most influential (and…
Danish Crafts Announces Mindcraft13 for Salone
Danish Crafts, an organization devoted to representing up-and-coming Danish designers, announced this year’s Mindcraft, their exhibition at Milan’s Fuori Salone 2013.
Scouting Salone: Shelving and Storage
Dwell is in Milan this week, reporting on the furniture industry's biggest design fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
Architectmade
In 2005, Danish company Architectmade launched with the goal of bringing to light products designed by architects.
Add comment