$255 chair in the "Danish Modern" style. According to Danish Chairs by Noritsugu Oda, this school of design is hyperbolously wonderful:
Oda's rhapsodizing reads as overstatement, but the rest of the section offers an interesting survey of the Danish Modern movement's genesis. Next on my reading list: "The narrative nature of place branding" by Rebecca Hjortegaard Hansen.
Sorry for not working a Hamlet joke into this post.
I like the Scandinavian movement, but it rarely gives credit that it's roots are in Bauhaus.
ReplyDeleteI had certainly never heard that! Time for more research.
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