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Danish modern, the Glossary

Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement.^[1]

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A. J. Iversen

Andreas Jeppe Iversen, usually known as A.J. Iversen (13 December 1888 - 17 December 1979), was a Danish cabinetmaker and furniture designer.

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The AC Hotel Bella Sky Copenhagen, formerly the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel, is a 4-star conference hotel adjacent to the Bella Convention and Congress Center in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Aksel Bender Madsen

Aksel Bender Madsen (16 August 1916 – 23 May 2000) was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Ejner Larsen (1917-1987) producing a wide variety of items during the Danish modern period.

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Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

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Ant (chair)

The Ant (Myren) chair is a classic of modern chair design.

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Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920.

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Arne Jacobsen

Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA (11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. Danish modern and Arne Jacobsen are Danish design.

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Arne Vodder

Arne Vodder (16 February 1926 – 27 December 2009) was a Danish furniture designer, a close friend and partner of Finn Juhl who had been his teacher.

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Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.

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Børge Mogensen

Børge Mogensen (13 April 1914 – 5 October 1972), was a Danish furniture designer.

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Bernt Petersen

Bernt Petersen (1937 – 6 March 2017), often known simply as Bernt, was a Danish furniture designer.

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Bodil Kjær

Bodil Kjær (born 11 March 1932 in Hatting near Horsens) is a Danish architect, furniture designer, professor and researcher, who has specialized in interior design and city planning.

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Centre Pompidou

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Eames (Charles Eames, Jr) and Ray Eames (Ray-Bernice Eames) were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office.

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Charlottenlund

Charlottenlund is a suburban area on the coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition

Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition (Danish: Københavns Snedkerlaugs Møbeludstilling) was an annual furniture exhibition and competition held from 1927 to 1966 that served as an well-known institution of Danish Design and a vehicle for the emergence of the Danish Modern art movement. Danish modern and Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition are 20th century in Denmark, Danish furniture and history of furniture.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. Danish modern and counterculture of the 1960s are modernism.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Danish design

Danish design is a style of functionalistic design and architecture that was developed in mid-20th century.

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Danmarks Designskole

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, more commonly known as the Danish Design School (Danish: Danmarks Designskole. often abbreviated as DKDS) is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering a five-year design education consisting of a three-year Bachelor programme and a two-year Master in design as well as conducting research within the fields of arts, crafts and design.

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Dansk International Designs

Dansk Designs (also known as Dansk International Designs starting in 1954) is an American distributor and retailer of cookware, tableware, and other home accessories based in Mount Kisco, New York.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Edgar Kaufmann Jr.

Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (April 9, 1910 – July 31, 1989) was an American architect, lecturer, author, and an adjunct professor of architecture and art history at Columbia University.

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Edvard Kindt-Larsen

Edvard Kindt-Larsen (1901–1982) was a Danish architect and furniture designer who worked closely together with his wife Tove Kindt-Larsen (1906–1994).

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Egg (chair)

The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1959 for the SAS Royal Hotel hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Ejner Larsen

Ejner Larsen (1917–1987) was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Aksel Bender Madsen.

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F. W. Woolworth Company

The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.

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Fallingwater

Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935.

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Finn Juhl

Finn Juhl (30 January 1912 – 17 May 1989) was a Danish architect, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design.

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Finn Juhl Prize

The Finn Juhl Prize is a design prize awarded annually by the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation to a recipient who has made a special effort in the field of furniture design–with special reference to chairs—such as an architect, manufacturer, writer. Danish modern and Finn Juhl Prize are Danish furniture.

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Formica (plastic)

Formica Laminate is a laminated composite material invented at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the United States in 1912.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

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Frits Henningsen

Frits Henningsen (1889–1965) was a Danish furniture designer and cabinet maker who achieved high standards of quality with exclusively handmade pieces.

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Fritz Hansen

Fritz Hansen, also known as Republic of Fritz Hansen, is a Danish furniture design company.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function.

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Grete Jalk

Grete Juel Jalk (18 June 1920 – 14 January 2006) was a Danish furniture designer.

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Hans Knoll

Hans G. Knoll (1914–1955) was a German-American who, together with his wife, Florence Knoll, founded Knoll, the well-known design company and furniture manufacturer.

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Hans Olsen (furniture designer)

Hans Olsen (1919–1992) was a Danish furniture designer who created a number of items in his own distinctive style.

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Hans Wegner

Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 – January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer.

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HAY (company)

HAY is a Danish furniture company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2002 by Mette and Rolf Hay. Danish modern and HAY (company) are Danish design and Danish furniture.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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House (TV series)

House (also called House, M.D.) is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012.

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House season 3

The third season of ''House'' (also called House, M.D.) aired on FOX from September 5, 2006 to May 29, 2007.

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International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was a specialized exhibition held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925.

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Jacob Kjær

Jacob Kjær (1896–1957) was a Danish furniture designer and cabinetmaker.

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Jørgen Gammelgaard

Jørgen Gammelgaard (1938–1991) was a Danish furniture designer who also designed lamps and silverware.

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Jørgen Kastholm

Professor.Arkitekt.

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Jens Risom

Jens Risom (8 May 1916 – 9 December 2016) was a Danish American furniture designer.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Kaare Klint

Kaare Klint (15 December 1888 – 28 March 1954) was a Danish architect and furniture designer, known as the father of modern Danish furniture design.

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Kurt Østervig

Kurt Østervig (1912–1986) was a Danish furniture designer.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Lilian Jackson Braun

Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913June 4, 2011) was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of ''The Cat Who...'' mystery novels.

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Lis Ahlmann

Mathilde Elisabeth "Lis" Ahlmann (April 13, 1894 – January 15, 1979) was a Danish weaver and textile designer who was one of the founders of modern Danish textile art and influential in the development of the style known as Danish modern.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, also known as just Louisiana, is an art museum located on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.

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Lunning Prize

The Lunning Prize was instituted by Frederik Lunning, owner of the New York agency for Georg Jensen.

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Mid-century modern

Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was popular in the United States and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period. Danish modern and Mid-century modern are history of furniture and modernism.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Danish modern and minimalism are modernism.

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Model 3107 chair

The Model 3107 chair is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955.

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Modern furniture

Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th century through the present that is influenced by modernism. Danish modern and modern furniture are history of furniture and modernism.

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Mogens Koch

Mogens Koch (2 March 1898 – 16 September 1992) was a Danish architect and furniture designer and, from 1950 to 1968, a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

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Mogens Lassen

Mogens Lassen (20 February 1901 – 14 December 1987) was a Modernist Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Muuto

Muuto is a Scandinavian design company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The product range includes furniture and other design products.

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Nanna Ditzel

Nanna Ditzel (October 6, 1923 in Copenhagen - June 17, 2005 in Copenhagen) was a Danish designer.

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Ole Wanscher

Ole Wanscher (16 September 1903 – 27 December 1985) was a Danish furniture designer.

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Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen

Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen (12 September 1907 – 21 October 1993) was a Danish architect and furniture designer.

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Panton Chair

The Panton Chair (Pantonstolen) is an S-shaped plastic chair created by the Danish designer Verner Panton in the 1960s. Danish modern and Panton Chair are Danish furniture.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Peder Moos

Peder Moos (27 January 1906, in Sønderborg – 1 April 1991, in Tønder) was a Danish furniture designer and cabinetmaker who crafted nearly all his pieces himself.

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Peter Hvidt

Peter Hvidt (1916–1986) was a Danish architect and furniture designer, co-founder of Hvidt & Mølgaard.

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PH Artichoke

The PH Artichoke pendant is a Light fixture designed by Danish architect and designer Poul Henningsen. Danish modern and pH Artichoke are Danish furniture.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Poul Henningsen

Poul Henningsen (9 September 1894 – 31 January 1967) was a Danish author, critic, architect, and designer.

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Poul Kjærholm

Poul Kjærholm (1929–1980) was a Danish designer.

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Poul Volther

Poul M. Volther (2 January 1923 – 23 January 2001) was a Danish furniture designer who is remembered above all for his iconic Corona Chair.

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Preben Fabricius

Preben Juul Fabricius (1931–1984) was a Danish furniture designer who worked together with Jørgen Kastholm.

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Radisson Collection Royal Hotel, Copenhagen

The Radisson Collection Royal Hotel, Copenhagen is a historic hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Rigmor Andersen

Rigmor Andersen (11 December 1903, Aarhus - 10 March 1995, Søllerød) was a versatile Danish designer, educator and author.

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Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.

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Scandinavian design

Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Danish modern and Scandinavian design are Danish design, history of furniture and modernism.

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Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_modern

Also known as Mid-century Danish furniture, Modernist Danish design.

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20th century in Denmark

Danish design

Danish furniture

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