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DENMARK / Copenhagen: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT - KAARE KLINT'S SCHOOL OF FURNITURE
by Modem
© Modem

until Friday February 27 2015

Design Museum Danmark
T : +45 33 18 56 56
Bredgade 68
1260 Copenhagen
Denmark



The Danish architect and designer Kaare Klint (1888-1954), the Grand Old Man of Danish furniture design, had a crucial impact on the success of Danish design after World War II, in a Danish as well as an international context.

It is no coincidence that the exhibition is staged and hosted by Designmuseum Danmark: In the early 1920s Kaare Klint, working with Ivar Bentsen, oversaw the extensive renovation of a former hospital to create the Danish Museum of Decorative Art (now Designmuseum Danmark). Thus, the museum’s history is closely related to Klint, who lived and taught at the museum.

The exhibition juxtaposes the ideas and achievements of the Klint School with those of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr’s contemporary Copenhagen School to explore what it means to be a school and a source of inspiration to others. While the Copenhagen School was the centre for an elite with an international outlook that had to challenge classic physics to achieve its goals, the Klint School had no desire to abandon history. Instead, their interest lay with the tried and tested, with what works and what comes naturally. Form had to follow function and tradition.

The exhibition was curated by {{Martin Christiansen and {{Annesofie Becker and was created with support from the {{Danish Arts Foundation and Bikubenfonden.

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