Thorvald Bindesbøll inventing modernism Thorvald Bindesbøll (1846 1908) was one of the first modern designers in Denmark. His activities covered all the different areas of decorative art: from furniture book covers jewellery carpets lamps posters and the familiar Carlsberg beer label to church interiors and sepulchral monuments. His architecture bridges the 19th and the 20th centuries. He is best known for his ceramics however with which he created a nonfigurative abstract art decades before the emergence of the concept.0