During the research for Danh Vo’s exhibition at Denmark’s National Gallery (SMK), ‘Take My Breath Away’, a retrospective exhibition first showing at Guggenheim, New York in 2018, Danh Vo wanted to create new social furniture works for the entrance area of the museum covered with textile by the Danish textile company Kvadrat.
In this process Danh discovered a textile by Nanna Di...
In 1921, Poul Henningsen and Axel Salto participated in the Efterårsudstilling (Artists’ Autumn Exhibition) at Den Frie. The exhibition was composed of ten installations, each made by an architect and an artist collaborating together to create their ideal room. This was a new idea by the architect Thorkild Henningsen, who was the creative force behind the exhibition. Among the other participating pairs were Kay Fisker with Mogens Lorentzen;...
Hanne Vedel is the intrepid woman who runs Spindegården, a textile workshop that since its opening in 1948 has played a pioneering role in shaping Danish textile design. The workshop has supplied high quality textiles for countless churches, public institutions, and private companies, and collaborated with architects like Poul Kjærholm, Finn Juhl and Tyge Arnfred.
Spindegården was founded by Paula Trock, who, in 1928, had opened a w...
Galleri Feldt’s booth for Design Miami/Basel 2019 celebrates the intimacy of history as experienced through intense personal contact with art and design. Curated by Berlin-based artist Uwe Trierweiler, the gallery’s installation juxtaposes iconic works of Danish design with contemporary works by Trierweiler himself, cabinetmaker Fred Fisher, and Copenhagen-based artist Kasper Akhøj, in a spirit that highlights, on one hand, the textur...
Galleri Feldt’s Design Miami/ Basel 2018 installation included the Tivoli Sofa by Finn Juhl, which was first presented at the 1957 “Tidens Møbler” (“Furniture of the Moment”) exhibition, organized by the Greater Copenhagen Furniture Dealers’ Association at the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall. Its shape is often referred to as “abstract,” a word often associated with Finn Juhl because of his taking inspiration from ...
For Chart 2018, Galleri Feldt is proud to present an installation by contemporary artist Kasper Akhøj, whose research-based art has often examined the residual histories of modernist design and architecture in subtle and thought-provoking ways. The Chart 2018 installation is the culmination of a project twelve years in the making, and is composed of a group of structures assembled together from pieces of a modular display system that Akhøj h...
Galleri Feldt’s contribution to Design Miami/Basel 2018 showcases pieces by three of Danish Modern’s most influential designers—Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007), Finn Juhl (1912-1989), and Poul Henningsen (1894-1967). As essential ingredients in what we think of today as the Danish Modern aesthetic, their styles interact harmoniously with each other: both Wegner and Juhl famously practiced a sculptural mode of form-making the supple lines of w...
Galleri Feldt has in its collection an easy chair and two footstools designed by Grete Jalk for her stand at the 1963 Cabinetmaker’s Guild Exhibition, in which she made a historic yet little known contribution to the world of interior design: she presented the public with a new conception of what leisure in the domestic sphere could look like. This unconventional success came on the heels of Jalk’s winning an international design competiti...
Through a juxtaposition of Danish Modern design and contemporary art, Galleri Feldt’s contribution to MiArt 2018 presents a meditation on the tension, inherent to the process of design innovation, between the weight of tradition, the desire for individual expression, and the imperatives of functionality. Each work included in the installation—an ensemble including pieces by Nanna Ditzel, Leonor Antunes, Tove and Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Finn J...
Kjærholm and his cabinets
Galleri Feldt’s drawing cabinets were designed by Poul Kjærholm as part of a 1955 commission from the Architecture School at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Each composed of an Oregon pine box with nine drawers (built by Rud. Rasmussen) resting on a frame of molded steel angles, they—together with the two desks included in the commission—constitute a crucial step in the designer’s aesthetic evolution...