I’ve been passionate about mid-20th century Danish furniture design for over ten years now, ever since I sat down on a Poet Sofa by Finn Juhl that happened to be in an Icelandic design store.

About Finn Juhl you can find plenty of information on the internet. However, when it comes to lesser-known artists, the information quickly becomes scarce. My aim is to create a Who’s Who of Danish Modern on this site, with short biographies of the designers, craftsmen and company owners, architects, carpenters, weavers, ceramists or silversmiths who shaped the era of cultural development in Denmark between 1920 and 1970.

My motivation is to give each of the names a face. That is sometimes easier, sometimes harder. The facts and the photos have been collected by me from sources that I consider as reliable as possible: books, encyclopedias, archives, census data, magazines, or contemporary catalogs. Sometimes they come from the families themselves, whom I like to contact when there is no reliable information to be found anywhere else. 

It is my hope that this site will be the source of information that I would have liked to have had for myself.

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