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Graphic design The Second of May –Vincent Vandevenne
Translation Ingrid Bongers
Photos Kristof Vrancken
21 x 28 cm
Soft cover
Pages 96
Edition 900

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GREAT DANES

Jan Kock, Susanne Outzen

Denmark, the land of Lego, Andersen’s fairy tales and Bang&Olufsen. The country that has become a byword for taut lines and high functionality, from furniture and household items to toys and fashion. The country where they think about design in a different way.

Danish design has been incredibly popular all over the world for decades: elegant cupboards and chairs, screen-printed textiles and wallpaper, colourful lamps and glassware. On the second-hand market the vintage culture is flourishing but besides this popular retro heritage, young Danish designers keep on creating contemporary top-class design today.
 
The exhibition Great Danes will bring a mix of the well-known colourful Scandinavian sixties and seventies design glass, and will also look back on the rise of the ‘studio glass’ in the eighties led by Finn Lynggaard. Finally, particular attention will be paid to contemporary glass art and glass design by world-renowned names such as Tobias Møhl, Lene Bødker, Steffen Dam, Jeannet Iskandar and Cecilie Manz. Accounting for more than 200 glass objects by 26 Danish artists and designers.
 
See the Exposition: 17/9/2016-17/4/2017
Danish Glass – from modern factory design to contemporary art> Agenda>

Posted 20 November 2016

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This workbooklike catalogue with all the works of the exposition well photographed in situ, gives an elaborate story on the history of glass in Denmark by Jan Kock, MA, Associate Professor emeritus, Aarhus University. Well-translated by Ingrid Bongers, the history of glass art, craft, industrial design, the factories and workshops and the educational possibilities, museums, expositions and galleries and their development. It is great to read such a precisely defined story from the time of the founding fathers of the Studio Glass movement, including the founder of the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft Finn Lynggaard who with his activities influenced so many artists and curators with his enthusiasm, hospitality and mirth. It is also good to see his work in Lommel and as the opening page of the part of the book where the artists and their work are described.
In the chapter Holmegaard Glass Factory, Susanne Outzen depicts the production of glass after Denmark’s separation from Norway. How the different glass works developed since 1814, their heydays and finally the decline. However, the bottle and container production still exists as an Irish company owning that part of Holmegaard and the new Holmegaard owned by Rosendahl producing glass abroad using the old designs together with modern glass design. Followed by the pages on the Holmegaard designers and their works.

I warmly recommend this impressive catalogue to students and collectors and all who want to know everything about Danish glass, artists and designers.
Angela van der Burght

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