Olaf Thormann, Sabine Epple for the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig

Danish design continues to be the epitome and expression of a timeless modern lifestyle, and designers such as Georg Jensen, Verner Panton, Nanna Ditzel, Henning Koppel and Arne Jacobsen have shaped the product and living culture of an entire generation – most notably in the second half of the twentieth century.

With a review of around 120 years of design history, this publication reveals how Danish design is the result of a success story that began as far back as the late nineteenth century.

One exemplary representative of Sk.nvirke, the Danish form of Art Nouveau, is the universal artist Thorvald Bindesb.ll. He was a role model for subsequent generations of artists and designers, such as Mogens Ballin and Johan Rohde, whose work tends towards the geometricisation and reduction that still inform Danish design today.

With a bountiful, open layout and vibrant full-page illustrations, the publication presents a selection of some 350 objects from the extensive, signifi cant holdings of Danish artworks in the GRASSI Museum for Applied Art in Leipzig.
 
Among the illustrated objects are important key design icons such as the PH Artichoke pendant lamp, the Panton Chair or contemporary ceramics as well as hitherto rather unknown and surprising treasures.

Concise introductory texts locate the collectors’ items in a design-historical context, and a short biography or text dedicated to each of the 180 designers, workshops and
manufactories can be found in the appendix.

Around 350 exemplary objects from the holdings of the GRASSI Museum in Leipzig document the course of Danish design from 1900 to the present day. A multifaceted,
opulent book for all lovers of Scandinavian design.
 
CONTENTS
Mette Bock
 Welcome 7
Olaf Thormann
 Danish Design at the Grassimuseum Leipzig 8
Sabine Epple and Carsten Klodt
 Danish Art Nouveau and the Pioneering
Thorvald Bindesb.ll 16
Sabine Epple and Carsten Klodt
 Around 1900. Harbingers of Danish Modernism 52
Sabine Epple and Carsten Klodt
 In Balance. Art Deco and Functionalism 90
Sabine Epple
 ‘Made in Denmark’. An International Trademark 138
Sabine Epple
 Danish Ceramicists. Between Serial Production and
One-Off Pieces 182
Sabine Epple
 From Postmodernism to the Present 216
Carsten Klodt and Theresa Stiller
 Artists, Manufacturers 238
Selected Bibliography 285
 
SELECTED ARTISTS
Thorvald Bindesb.ll, Johan Rohde, Jais Nielsen, Jean Ren. Gauguin, Henning Koppel, Nanna Ditzel, Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint, Verner Panton, Bodil Manz and Ole Jensen
 
SELECTED MANUFACTORIES
 Royal Copenhagen, Bing & Gr.ndahl,
Georg Jensen S.lvsmedie, Saxbo Stent.j, Stelton A/S,
Fritz Hansen und Hay Jörg Schwandt

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