Andreas Varotsos

Andreas Varotsos studied Industrial Design in Rome. He has worked for many firms in Greece and participates in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He is the designer of the torch of the “Athens 2004” Olympic Games.

The creator of the Olympic torch, which will carry the flame across five continents, was inspired by a leaf of olive.

Andreas Varotsos, industrial designer, made a simple torch from olive wood and metal to express the concept of balance between nature and man. The torch was unveiled by “Athens 2004” president, Ms. Gianna Angelopoulos, during the visit of the IOC president, Mr. Jacques Rogge, in Athens.

Is it different to design furniture and to design the Olympic torch? “The designing of any object has a common place. However, functionally and formalistically it has its own parameters. The cultural factor is very important. The cultural messages conveyed by a chair should be different from the ones conveyed by a torch”.

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Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen (1902 - 1971)

Arne Jacobsen is without doubt the most important designer to Fritz Hansen.

Although the first collaboration dates back to 1934 - it was the Ant chair designed in 1952 that propelled his and Fritz Hansen's names into the international furniture scene.

THE BEGINNING
Arne Jacobsen's education followed the schooling of his time: Secondary school, four years at Technical School (1920-24), holidays spent as a bricklayer's apprentice and finally 3 years at The Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Architectural department (1924-27). The following year he was awarded a gold medal for a proposed new national museum in Klampenborg (north of Copenhagen).

Arne Jacobsen originally wanted to become an artist. He had a great talent for drawing and watercolour painting and had an eye for variety and contrasts. In 1929 Arne Jacobsen left the new-classicist way of thinking and professed to the new, international style or functionalism. His first project of this kind was the design of a futurist-modern exhibition building.

ESTABLISHMENT
The thirties were a very busy time for Arne Jacobsen. The Bellevue Sea-Bathing Area (1932), the housing development Bellavista (1934), the HIK Tennis Court (1936), city halls in Aarhus (1939-42) and Soelleroed (1940-42), apartments, terrace houses and one-family houses in Gentofte and environs (1932-38) and Stelling's House (1937) in Copenhagen were among the buildings which were favourably received.

ON THE RUN
In 1943 Arne Jacobsen, being a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden together with his wife, Jonna Jacobsen, a textile designer. He was well received by Swedish colleagues and many of his nature sketches were transformed into wallpaper designs and textile prints for a collection that was launched in 1944. After the war Arne Jacobsen returned to a Denmark under reconstruction but suffering from building material shortage. To surmount the shortage, Arne Jacobsen turned to traditional methods and materials while succeeding in giving his buildings a contemporary look. During the late forties he designed some of the most beautiful and most characteristic housing developments in modern tradition.

His interiors proved that his talents were multiple. He liked to surround himself with beautiful objects and designed consumer goods, furniture, lamps and textiles during the following years.

INNOVATION
Arne Jacobsen was determined to give industrially produced items a quality similar to handmade pieces. With this intention in mind, he enforced new production methods, i.e. for the production of "The Ant" chair in 1952. The Ant has a single laminated and moulded seat and back. The three-legged stackable chair from 1952 was originally designed for the canteen of Novo Nordisk (Danish medical group) and both the three-legged and later four-legged versions of the Ant chair plus the four-legged "3107" chair (1955) have since been manufactured by Fritz Hansen in record numbers. The chairs are omnipresent today and can be spotted in countless offices and homes, in museums and at exhibitions all over the world.

MORE ARCHITECTURAL WORK
In the years after World War II, the shortage of materials came to an end, borders were re-opened and traditionalism yielded to internationalism. Two of Arne Jacobsen's commissions received in the late fifties illustrate this evolution. The interiors and detailing of the Roedovre city hall (1955) and the SAS Hotel "Royal" (1959) in Copenhagen reveal the level of personal involvement of Arne Jacobsen in his project, e.g. "The Egg" (1958) and "The Swan" (1958) chairs and the Swan sofa for the Royal Hotel. The Munkegaard School (1955) in Gentofte, north of Copenhagen, equally attracted attention.

COMMISSIONS ABROAD
In the early sixties, the dean of St. Catherine's College in Oxford commissioned Arne Jacobsen to build an extension of the university. The rural surroundings provided Arne Jacobsen with the opportunity to use his talent as a landscape gardener and architect. For St. Catherine's Arne Jacobsen designed the "Oxford" chair (1964). Upon completion of the extension he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford.

Arne Jacobsen's largest foreign assignments were, however, in Germany, where he often worked with Otto Weitling. Together they designed an administration building for Hamburg's Electricity Works (1962) and two new city centres in Castrop-Rauxel (1966) and Mainz (1968). The Danish central bank (1961) in Copenhagen and the German projects were completed after Arne Jacobsen's death in 1971 under the direction of Otto Weitling and Hans Dissing.

INSPIRATION
Many leading Danish architects have learnt from and are influenced by Arne Jacobsen. His superb skills as a designer of household articles are a benchmark until today. A good example is the well-known Cylinda-Line he designed for Stelton in 1967. While the significance of Arne Jacobsen's buildings was less appreciated, his furniture and other design work have become national and international heritage.

The splendour of his architecture, his exquisite ornamental gardening and design principles was driven by a determination for the abstract with a sensual undertone. It is the ombination of all those achievements that makes Arne Jacobsen the esteemed, respected and admired genius.

ARNE JACOBSEN FURNITURE STILL IN PRODUCTION BY FRITZ HANSEN
The Ant, Series 7, Oxford, The Swan, The Egg and Series 3300.

REFERENCES
"Arne Jacobsen" - Architect & Designer - Danish Design Centre, 1994.
"Arne Jacobsen, The Architect, 1902-71" - Exhibition at the Architect School in Aarhus, 1990.
"Arne Jacobsen" by Joergen Kastholm - published by Andr.Fred. Hoest & Soen's Forlag, 1968.
"Dansk Moebel Kunst" (Danish Furniture Design) - In the 20th Century (volume 1 + 2) by Arne Karlsen - published by Christian Ejlers' Forlag, 1990 + 1991.
"Dansk Moebeldesign" (Danish Furniture Design) - published by Kunstmuseet Trapholt, 1993.
"Stolen (Chairs) - Design in the 20th Century", by Birgit Jeppesen & Dorthe Spaabaek - published by OP-Forlag ApS, 1994.

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Claudio Bellini

Born in 1963 in Milan, where he lives and works today, Claudio Bellini graduated in Architecture and Industrial Design in 1990 at the Politecnico di Milano.

His innate prolific talent was apparent as of 1987, when he started working at Mario Bellini Associates, where his skills brought him to be an integral part of many important projects, spanning the globe and ranging from architecture to industrial to furniture design.
 
In 1997 he founded with Mario Bellini “Atelier Bellini”, an innovative consultancy dedicated to industrial design, with special interest in the relationship between new technologies and aesthetic research processes.

From 2006 he develops his architectural and design project through his own studio in Milan “Claudio Bellini Design + Design”

Claudio Bellini is a Professor of Industrial Design (Genova University) and is a frequent lecturer at universities and conferences globally, as well as taking part in juries worldwide.Many international recognition has been given to some of his award winning creations.

Main current collaborations:

De Sede | Driade I Plank | Natuzzi I Fiam I Ycami | Agape Andreu World | Walter Knoll | Serralunga I J.P. Decaux Frezza | Vitra I Barazzoni I Olivari | Caimi Brevetti

Awards:

- Compasso d’Oro Selection, 1998-2000-2001-2004-2005-2006
- Design Preis, 2006
- Good Design (Usa), 1998-2000-2004
- Good Design (Japan), 2001
- Goed Industrieel Ontwerp, 1996-1998-2001
- Red Dot Design Award, 2000-2001-2004
- Design Plus Award, 2000
- Biennale Ljubljana, 2002
- Idea, 1998
- Best of NeoCon Award, 2001
- I.D. Magazine, 1998-2001
- Lights of the Future, 2000
- IF Design Award, 2004-2007
- Focus Energy Silber, 2006

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Francoise-Helene Jourda

Born on 26 November 1955 in Lyon, France.
Architect, diploma obtained in 1979.

Titles:
Knight of the National Order of the Merit
Knight of the order of the Arts and Letters
Honorary member of the Academy of Architecture of Germany
Director of the Institute "Space Design" of the University of Technology of Vienna, Austria
Member of the French Council for Urban Planning Strategies (“PUCA”)
Member of the French Academy of Architecture
Member of the German Academy of Arts

University Professor, teaching at:
- School of Architecture of Lyon, France (1979-1983)
- School of Architecture of Saint-Etienne, France (1985-1989)
- School of Architecture of Oslo, Norway (1990)
- University of Minnesota, USA (1992)
- Polytechnic of Central London, UK (1992)
- University of Technology of Kassel, Germany (1998)
- University of Technology of Vienna, Austria (since 1999)

Principal projects and constructions:
1985: School complex “Lantern” in Cergy-Pontoise , France
1987: School of architecture of Lyon, France
Planning and furnishing of the City hall of Montbrison, France
Private housing in Lyon, France
Deportation Memorial in Lyon, France
1988: Subway station “Parilly” in Vénissieux, France
1989: Experimental housing in Stuttgart, Germany
Housing in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France
Housing and offices in Paris, France
International School Complex in Lyon
1990: Descriptive of the Subway of Lyon, France
Urban furniture for the City of Lyon, France
1991: Students housings in Ecully, France
1992: University of “Marne la Vallée”, France: building for lecture-rooms and a cafeteria Social housing in Lyon, France
1993: Further Education Center in Herne- Sodingen, Germany
1994: Constructions for the highway No. 51, section Grenoble-Gap-Sisteron in France Law court of Melun, France
1995: Reconstruction of a country cottage in Megève, France
1996: Futuroscope & Entertainment Center in Krefeld, Germany (competition)
1997: Planning of a public park and a housing area, including a 13,000 sq. m. green house in Potsdam, Germany (competition)
1998: “Clinique de l’Europe” hospital complex in Lyon, France
Covered market place in Lyon, France
1999: Decathlon Store in Hanover, Germany
Green houses for the Botanical Garden in Bordeaux, France
2000: National Rugby Training Center in Marcoussis, France
2001: Hospital complex in Douai, France (competition)
Police head quarter in Lille, France (competition)
Constructions for the highway No. 51 (follow-up of 1994’s project)
2002: Office and production building in Ebermannsdorf, Germany
Donau City in Vienna, Austria (competition)
Cyclo-pedestrian bridges of a circle-bridge in Mons, Belgium
2003: Office building in Vienna, Austria
Transformation of the left bank of the river Rhône in Lyon, France, into a public space

Principales expositions:>br>1980: European Community in Brussels, Belgium
1981: Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, France
“Modernity and Post Modernity”, French Institute of Architecture in Paris, France
1982: Biennale of Paris, France
1985: Saint-Jean Palace in Lyon, France
1986: New Delhi, India
1988: Pavilion of the Arsenal in Paris, France
1989: The Art Institute, Chicago, USA
1990: “Projects and Realizations” in Oslo, Norway
French Institute of Architecture in Paris, France
“Public Architecture”, Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1991: Design Centre of Montreal, Canada
1993: French Institute of Architecture in Paris, France
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
Architect World Congress of Chicago, USA
1994: Municipal Library of Lyon, France
1996: Biennale of Venice, Italy
Dutch Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997: “Made in France”, Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, France
Consulate of France in Hong-Kong
Gallery Aedes West in Berlin, Germany
2002: “Archilab 2002”, 4th international architecture meeting in Orleans, France

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Giorgetto Giugiaro

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Jehs+Laub

Jürgen Laub (b.1964) + Markus Jehs (b.1965) are both industrial designers from the Schwabisch Gmund University in 1992.They established the studio Jehs+Laub in 1994, and over the past couple of years they have designed furniture for Cassina, Renz, Thonet, Acerbis and lamps for Nemo and Belux. They have also designed the new showroom concept for Mercedes Benz, which is currently being implemented globally.
The new Space lounge series started in Fritz Hansen as concept furniture, i.e. it was introduced as prototypes and the series received so much positive feedback; it is therefore a natural decision to introduce Space in 2007.

Jehs+Laub about design:
“We want our products to look as if they had designed themselves. Like in nature. The design is like a human body – every element helps the other and provides stability and flexibility”

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Kasper Salto

Kasper Salto - the designer of the Ice Series - was trained as a cabinetmaker with Jorgen Wolff. He graduated in 1994 as a designer from the Danish Design School.During his studies Salto spent a term at the Art Center in Switzerland.

From 1996-1997 Salto Lectured at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen and was also appointed a member of S.E. (The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition). In 1997 Kasper Salto became an exhibiting architect for S.E. at the Museum of Applied Art in Copenhagen.

In Kasper Salto's work the Danish tradition of furniture design is continued in a well-balanced combination with international industrial design. Salto's main source of inspiration is nature's superior way of designing and colouring.

In spite of his young age, Kasper Salto has already received several design awards for his works. Lately, Salto received the Danish Knud V. Engelhardt's memorial award 2005.

Kasper Salto has designed the Ice series including tables, side chairs, two different bar chairs and Little Friend - a new small table, e.g. for the laptop.

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Luca Scacchetti

Luca Scacchetti was born in Milan in 1952.

In 1975 he gained his architectural degree from the Milan Polytechnic with a project on low cost housing. Since the same year he has taught in the Department of Architectural Composition of the Milan Polytechnic.

Between 1975 and 1980 he wrote various essays and articles on the methodology of design, the transformation of architectural language in Milan during the years between the two world wars (Casabella 451/452 1979, “Urbanistica Fascista”, collection of Urban History, Franco Angeli, Milan, 1980), and on the characteristics of rural and mountain architecture in Lombardy.In 1981 he introduced the anthology “Scritti di Architettura” by Enzo Bonfanti, published by CLUP, Milan.

Since 1987 he has taught Architectural Design in the Department of Architecture at the European Institute of Design in Milan. In 1990 he became director of the department.
Since 1994 he teachs Architectural Elements and Composition at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Since 2002 he teachs Design at the Milan Polytechnic.
On behalf of the European Institute of Design he has organised four annual cycles of conferences entitled “Italian Architects” (1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994).

Lives and works in Milan.

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Marc Sadler

Marc Sadler was born in Austria. He is a French citizen and at present lives in Milan.

He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) in 1968, at the end of the first “industrial design” course (it had the well-chosen definition of “esthétique industrielle”), a branch of learning that was already regarded as a separated branch of learning as to architecture.

Devoted from the start to the experimentation with plastic materials (subject of his degree thesis and of his personal curiosity) since the ‘70ies he brought to perfection the very first ski-boot in thermoplastic material, subsequently industrialized by the Italian firm Caber.

The way was opened towards a long and fruitful collaboration with Caber (afterwards known as Lotto), that led him to the patenting of the ski-boot with symmetric shell, the most successful ski-boot for several years all over the world. This represented the origin of his specialization as a “designer for sport sector”, that led him to the cooperation with the most important multinational sport Companies in the United States, Asia, Japan and Europe.

His professional path allowed him to mature a varied experience regarding both materials and manufacturing processes. The “source” from sports field, where research and experimentation on new materials and working technologies are more widely diffused, allowed him to export ideas and knowledge towards fields in which “design” (with a classical meaning) is deep-rooted for a long time.

Stateless in a broad sense (he lived and practiced his job in France, United States, Asia and Italy), toady he is (probably) temporarily settled in Milan. He constantly cooperates with very important firms in the fields of home furnishing, big and small household appliances, lighting, and of more technically advanced products as well, in addition to his collaborations in the field of sport.

Some of the awards he received through the years:
“Design Plus” (Frankfurt) – 1995
“Compasso d’Oro” ADI (Milano) – 1995
“Auszeichnung für Gutes Design” (Hannover) – 1996
“Créateur de l’Année” (Paris) – 1997
“Compasso d’Oro” ADI (Milano) – 2001
“Design Plus” (Frankfurt) – 2001
“Auszeichnung für Gutes Design” (Hannover) – 2007
“Compasso d’Oro” ADI (Milano) – 2008
“Segnalazione Compasso d’Oro “ ADI (Milano) – 2008

His Motorcyclist’s Back Protector (designed for Dainese) is housed in the permanent collection of design at MOMA in New York and the lamp Mite (Foscarini) is part of the design collection of the Beaubourg in Paris

In spite of his well deserved reputation as a technical designer, Marc Sadler is a very talented artist in drawing, painting and sculpture, sensitive and so much emotionally engaged as to consider painting as his most true passion, source of creative torments, and thus practised at an intimist level.

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Matteo Ragni

Matteo Ragni, graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1998 to 2005 he founded and managed the studio Aroundesign with Giulio Iacchetti, with whom he was awarded with Compasso d’Oro ADI for the disposable biogradable spork “Moscardino”, which is now part of the permanent design collection at MOMA New York.

He recently won the Wallpaper Design Award ’08 with Leti, a table lamp/book end produced by Danese.Today, along with his activity of designer, he teaches, he works as an architect and an art director.

Some of his clients: Bialetti, Breil, Caimi Brevetti, Coin Casa, Coop, Corian Dupont, Danese, Desalto, De Vecchi, Euro3Plast, Guzzini, JVC, Krios Italia, Liv'it, Light Style, Mandarina Duck, Meritalia, Mitshubishi, Navadesign, Pandora Design, Pinetti, Piquadro, Poltrona Frau, Samsung, Suisse Lagenthal, Ti Voglio, United Pets.

Teaching activity
Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Design; Domus Academy, IED, Istituto Europeo di Design Milano; Free University of Bozen, Istituto Marangoni, Milan; Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Universita' Marittima, Vina del Mar, Cile; Universita' Tecnica Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Cile.

Prizes:
2008 Wallpaper Design Award, “Leti”, Best table lamp
2008 ADI Design Index, “Fly ”: selected product for Compasso d’Oro 2008
2006 Elle Decor International Design Awards, Young Design Talent, Italy
2004 International Design Contest promoted by JVC: “Lollipop”, 3rd prize
2003 World Best Design Exchange Seoul, “Moscardino”, Best Design Product
2002 PREMIO MACEF 2002, “Ricciolo”, 1st prize Buyers Jury
2001 XIX PREMIO COMPASSO D’ORO ADI, “Moscardino”, winner
2001 ADI Design Index, “Moscardino ”: selected product Compasso d’Oro 2001
2000 ADI Design Index, “Unoaldì ”: selected product for Compasso d’Oro 2001
1999 YOUNG & DESIGN, “Inorbita ”: wall clock, 3rd prize
1997 EIMU. OFFICE DESIGN COMPETITION: “Si, cara”, honor mention
1996 GIOVANE DESIGN ITALIANO PER IKEA:“Natube”, honor mention

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Nikolaos Chachamis

He was born in Kozani in 1956.

He completed his classical studies in Greece and his academic studies in Italy.
In 1984, he graduated from the architectural school of the Politecnico di Milano and, in the same period, he became member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

In 1987, he took his first steps in the field of Industrial Design working for the industrial group Pedicone.

In 1994, he starts his career as a free-lancer and co-operates with several firms in Italy and in England.
He has designed products for the following firms:

LAS mobili (Italy)
Teorema Office (Italy)
Forsit (Italy)
Neos (Italy)
Ideal Form Team (Italy)
Ora Acciaio (Italy)
Screen Solutions (UK)

From 2003 to 2005 he was a visitor professor in the department of Industrial Design at the Technical Educational Institute of Western Macedonia.

His works are presented in exhibitions and published in the international press.
Currently, he lives and works in Italy.

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Pelican Design

Pelikan Design partnered by Niels Gammelgaard, born in 1944 and Lars Mathiesen, born 1950.They are both architects specializing in industrial design. They favour functional and unpretentious idioms that are minimalist, yet expressive.

Characteristic of Gammelgaard and Mathiesen is that they work very broadly in many different areas without losing sight of the issue.For Fritz Hansen they have designed the Decision and the Wing screen wall series as well as the Plano table series.

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Piero Lissoni

Italian Piero Lissoni is a designer and architect with a degree from the Polytechnico of Milan. In 1986 Lissoni founded the Studio Lissoni. Since then Piero Lissoni has worked with a dense list of design brands, such as Boffi, Cassina, Kartell, Living Divani and Flos on a wide diversity of designs of furniture and lighting.

Lissonis's projects are often total designs, i.e. full-scale interiors and architecture of hotels, offices and showrooms, yachts and private homes. He's inspired by many different elements but also designers such as Danish Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm.

Piero Lissoni's design principle is never to design for a specific function or purpose - but to design for human beings.

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Poul Kjaerholm

Furniture designer, craftsman and modernist Poul Kjærholm occupies a prominent position in the exclusive company of architects and designers behind the classic and internationally acclaimed furniture from Fritz Hansen. During his 32-year career span, Kjærholm created a string of what have now become classic and exclusive icons in furniture, all born out of a perpetual, ambitious and challenging search for a minimalist ideal.

Danish Poul Kjærholm was born in the small village of Øster Vrå in northern Jutland on January 8, 1929. At only 15 years of age he embarked on the journey that would eventually lead him to international fame when he was apprenticed to local master cabinetmaker Th. Grønbech in the neighbouring town of Hjørring. Having obtained his certificate of completed apprenticeship and a bronze medal for “a finely crafted mahogany-polished secretary”, as stated on the certificate, young Kjærholm decided to leave his childhood region and go to Copenhagen where he was admitted to study at The Danish School of Arts and Crafts in Frederiksberg the following year.

At the school Poul Kjærholm studied under Hans J. Wegner while also following the lectures of Professor Kaare Klint at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. For a short period of time he studied under architect Jørn Utzon as well, but beyond that he was heavily influenced by international designers such as Americans Charles and Ray Eames, Bauhaus icon Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the radical, Dutch minimalist Gerrit Rietveld.

Poul Kjærholm proved his unique talent already in his early years at the Arts and Crafts school, when he engaged in bold and visionary experiments with novel materials and production technologies. Thus, in 1950 Poul Kjærholm developed the basic concept for a radical new series of furniture in compression-moulded plywood, the PK0 chair. This beautiful, sculptural and futuristic piece of furniture challenged all norms in traditional furniture design at the time.

PK 0 AND PK25
Kjærholm’s master project from the spring of 1952, the PK25 chair, consisted of a spring steel frame and a seat composed of flag halyard, and it, drew further attention to the young talent.The chair, which was the result of experiments carried out by Kjærholm in the local forging shop during his summer vacation near Hjørring, showcased Kjærholm’s strong point in the coupling of traditional craftsmanship with industrial production.

Both the PK0 and PK25 are further developed in prototypes when Poul Kjærholm goes to work for Fritz Hansen for a year following his graduation. This year is also spent developing a series of experimenting furniture based on the radical construction of the PK25.

The PK25 is put into trial production the same year at Fritz Hansen in a very limited stock, whereas the experimenting and technologically demanding PK0 is not introduced into Fritz Hansen’s collection until 45 years later in connection with the company’s 125th anniversary.

Over the following years Kjærholm refines his talent amongst other things by working part-time for his mentor Wegner and architect Jørn Utzon. He is also engaged as a teacher and inspirator at The Danish School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Furniture School under The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1955 Poul Kjærholm engages in formal co-operation with furniture maker Ejvind Kold Christensen. This spawns the most productive period in Kjærholm’s career, and this is the period that sees the emergence of his most sublime furniture.

PK22
Thus, 1956 is the year when Kjærholm gets his commercial breakthrough when the elegant PK22 lounge chair is put into production at Kold Christensen’s. The chair, which stands comparison with the world famous Barcelona chair designed by Kjærholm’s beau ideal Mies van der Rohe back in 1929, sets new standards in Scandinavian furniture aesthetics, and Kjærholm makes use of all the experience he has gained from the extensive experiments with the PK25 to optimise both the construction and comfort of the chair to perfection.

Everything in this unique chair has been worked out carefully down to the smallest detail, and Kjærholm made it a point of honour to perfect even hidden joints, something which imposed very high demands on the quality of the craftsmanship during production.
The unique design themes of the PK22 are reiterated by Poul Kjærholm in various later creations, such as the beautiful PK24 chaise longue from 1965 and the Bauhaus inspired PK20 lounge chair from 1967 where the characteristic, elegant lines of the PK22 are found.

A NEW ERA
In retrospect it is obvious how Kjærholm’s work from this period becomes the exponent of a new era in Danish and Scandinavian furniture making. After half a century dominated by the aesthetics of wooden materials, Kjærholm introduces an industrial dimension into his furniture, one where the qualities of metal prevail. The best example of this paradigm shift is Kjærholm’s homage to the master Kaare Klint, the PK91 folding stool from 1961 which is a stringent industrial interpretation of Klint’s 1930 Propeller stool.

Kjærholm’s idiom and uncompromising search for a minimalist ideal has resulted in a collection of universal and timeless classics, a fact that is emphasised by the continued popularity of his works to this day.

KJÆRHOLM IN THE MOMA AND AMERICA’S CUP
Thus, for instance, the monumental PK80 daybed adorns many parts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the beautiful Giacometti room of the Louisiana museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen. And the popular PK22 is an integral part of the famous Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

As the official supplier to the Italian America’s Cup boat Luna Rossa, Fritz Hansen have worked together with PRADA to furnish the team headquarters in Valencia with, among other items, the classic Poul Kjærholm chair PK24.

Immediately following the premature death of Poul Kjærholm on April 18, 1980, Fritz Hansen Ltd. takes over the production of a long line of Kjærholm classics which up until then had been manufactured by E. Kold Christensen. Today the production adheres to the same rigorous demands in quality and processing as before, and Fritz Hansen has made it a point of honour to maintain partnership with the many dedicated subcontractors who from the very beginning have had a great influence on the uncompromising production of these design icons.

The following Poul Kjærholm products are manufactured and sold by Fritz Hansen:

PK9, PK20, PK22, PK24, PK25, PK31, PK33, PK54, PK61, PK71, PK80, and PK91

In 1997 an exclusive, numbered stock of 600 PK0 chairs was produced.

In connection with the major retrospective exhibition POUL KJÆRHOLM – FURNITURE DESIGNER at the Louisiana art museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen, Fritz Hansen decided to honour the world famous Danish furniture designer by introducing the Special 2006 Edition of the classic PK25 with the seat and back made in elegant, black flag halyard.

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Roberto Lucci & Paolo Orlandini

Roberto Lucci was born in milano, italy, in 1942, studied design at the institute of design in chicago and at the corso superiore di disegno industriale, venezia. Paolo orlandini was born in grosseto, Italy, in 1941 and graduated in architecture at the politecnico of milano. Both have worked for several years with marco zanuso sr. and richard sapper.

Their partnership started in 1968. Since then they have designed over 340 products which are, or have been, regularly manufactured and sold in large quantities. In chair design lucci-orlandini’s score is a total production of more than 3,500,000. Among their designs: furniture for acerbis-morphos and magis; kitchen units for arclinea and snaidero; chairs, office chairs and sofas for biesse, calligaris, lamm–thonet usa, knoll, versteel; household appliances for candy-zerowatt, ricagni-emerson; office furniture for mascagni, narbutas, ora-acciaio, knoll; lamps for artemide, martinelli, segno; heating equipment for riello and sime; acoustic communication and tv for brionvega, paso; boats for pirelli; children products for peg perego pines; scales for terraillon and zenith.

Both Lucci and Orlandini have lectured on design in many universities in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, U.S.A. They are the authors of the book "PRODUCT DESIGN MODELS" published in the U.S.A. by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1990. Roberto Lucci was invited to “IDEAS 94” Design Conference, Melbourne, Australia 1994; to the “Design Masterclasses” London, Uk 2002 and San Francisco, Usa 2005

Their designs are in the design collection of the Museum Of Modern Art, New York; at the Centre National D'art Contemporain of the Louvre, Paris; at the Museum Of Contemporary Art; Chicago and have been exhibited at the Milano Triennale; at the Museum Of Art And Industry In Hamburg; at the “Grand Palais” in Paris; at the La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art; California; at the Chicago Athenaeum; at the International “Luxury In Living” Exhibition and in many other International Design Exhibitions.

Designs by Lucci and Orlandini have been selected for the COMPASSO D'ORO AWARD, Milano 1979, 81, 84, 87, 89, 91, 2001; Received 2 awards from the INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS DESIGNERS, New York 1982, 1986; The SMAU AWARDS FOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, Milano 1971, 78; THE ROSCOE COMMENDATION, New York 1982; the INTERNATIONAL AWARDS PROMOSEDIA CHAIR EXHIBITION, Udine 1986, 1987; the INDUSTRIE FORUM DESIGN, Hannover 1983, 90, 92; the OSCAR SNAI AWARD, Paris 1990; the I.I.D.A. ACCLAIM AWARD, Los Angeles 1995; the INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DISTINCTION AWARD, New York 1996; the GRANDESIGN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, Milano 1997; 2 CATAS PRIZES, Udine 1998; the TOP TEN AWARD, Udine 1999, 2007; the BEST OF NEOCON GOLD AND SILVER AWARDS, Chicago 2000, 2006; the CHICAGO ATHENAEUM “GOOD DESIGN AWARD”, Chicago 1995, 2003, 2004; the GRAND PRIX DE L’INNOVATION, Paris 2002, 2005; the WELL-TECH AWARD, Milano 2005; the DEDALO MINOSSE  INTERNATIONAL AWARD, Vicenza 2006.