CASE STUDY
— MONUMENTAL MONOCHROME
Design
The enduring aesthetic of Danish furniture has always been entirely in step with other contemporary design practices, ceramics, glass, textiles, and particularly architecture. In 1924, architect G. B. Hagen og Edvard Thomsen completed the Øregård Gymnasium, its austere and strictly classical expression, characteristic of educational institutions of the time.
The hard-edged grid of its glass-roofed interior hall is the perfect backdrop for this restrained tonal study of forceful and assertive furniture and objects that carry on the entrenched design tradition spanning both monumentality and lightness. With materials that range from aluminium and stainless-steel to wood, concrete and clay, chairs and tables, sculptures and vases share an emphatic presence that confidently strides across decades and styles.
The Case Study Monumental Monochrome appears in Ark Journal VOLUME VIII.
STYLIST PERNILLE VEST
PHOTOGRAPHY HEIDI LERKENFELDT
RETOUCH THOMAS CATO
TAILORED INTERIOR
In the small Belgian village of Itegem, interior architect Peter Ivens discovered a unique and exotic villa with well-preserved 1920’s details reminiscent of a classical British colonial style – a central stairway, symmetrical plan, alcove windows, hipped roof and upper dormer windows.
LANDON METZ
Space is important to Landon Metz. In his art, pools of colour float across canvas leaving vast areas of unprimed fabric. In his studio the same sense of space – and the importance of the negative – is evident in the blanks between sparsely scattered furniture and plants.
CASE STUDY
— PERIOD PIECES
In the unique surroundings of the house created by Danish sculptor Rikard Axel Poulsen (1887-1972) furniture, lighting and homewares by contemporary designers exhibit their serene poise, the avant-garde flanked by the archaic to create layers of history.
CASE STUDY
— MONUMENTAL MONOCHROME
Design
The enduring aesthetic of Danish furniture has always been entirely in step with other contemporary design practices, ceramics, glass, textiles, and particularly architecture. In 1924, architect G. B. Hagen og Edvard Thomsen completed the Øregård Gymnasium, its austere and strictly classical expression, characteristic of educational institutions of the time.
The hard-edged grid of its glass-roofed interior hall is the perfect backdrop for this restrained tonal study of forceful and assertive furniture and objects that carry on the entrenched design tradition spanning both monumentality and lightness. With materials that range from aluminium and stainless-steel to wood, concrete and clay, chairs and tables, sculptures and vases share an emphatic presence that confidently strides across decades and styles.
The Case Study Monumental Monochrome appears in Ark Journal VOLUME VIII.
STYLIST PERNILLE VEST
PHOTOGRAPHY HEIDI LERKENFELDT
RETOUCH THOMAS CATO