Georg Jensen started his fabled modern silversmith firm in 1904. Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen's company, founded 75 years ago, has become a model for 21st-century electronics design. But Danes have a special passion for making chairs. Among the most famous is architect Arne Jacobsen's Egg chair, created in 1957 for the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The new generation is closer in spirit to Wegner, whose simplicity of line and respect for natural materials is echoed in the chairs gathered here.
Organizers hope to sell chairs.
They also want to make clear that contemporary Danish design is more than stoneware and teak dining sets. Danes were represented by chairs there, too, but none as bold as the Stick chair by Carlo Volf. Volf has taken a Wegner classic to the next level. Wegner exaggerated the spindleback Windsor chair into a fan-shaped Peacock chair. Volf fanned the spindles into a circle, which also serves as chair seat.