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
design /delight: A PLATFORM FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
During Shanghai Art Week, the city’s cultural landscape was shaped by the second edition of design /delight, an emerging platform dedicated to contemporary collectible design and functional art.
SPATIAL GESTURES
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara.
LAKE COME DESIGN FESTIVAL 2025
The city of Como once again hosted the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival, under the theme Fragments. The festival invited visitors to reflect on fragmentation not as a sign of rupture, but as a catalyst for creative rebirth, for the preservation of memory, and for a regenerative approach to design.
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