The venerable Italian publishing home Cassina has chosen to reissue three pieces by Bodil Kjær. Born 90 years in the past in Hatting, Jutland, the Danish designer and architect grew up divided between her native country, america, and England, the place she studied at the Royal School of Artwork. Within the 1960s, she set up her personal business, creating two studios in London and Copenhagen. Impressed by the modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer within the late 1950s and early 1960s, she designed furnishings as architectural parts to satisfy particular wants and clear up issues of a practical and aesthetic nature. Amongst her key pieces, the very elegant “Crosses” vases for Holmegaard, but in addition and above all her well-known desk in metal and ash, recognizable amongst hundreds because of its delicate metallic legs on which its picket prime seems to drift. Now revealed by the Danish firm Karakter, the desk was designed for the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how and later gained a quarter of an hour of fame by showing within the James Bond saga, then carried out on the BBC set. In addition to her incredibly rich profession as a designer, Bodil Kjær additionally worked for the development of the town of Aarhus, the place she now lives, earlier than happening to show in the USA within the 1980s. A flourishing and unfortunately little-known trajectory, which makes her one of the nice names in Scandinavian design.
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