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CIRCULARITY IN THE DANISH MODERN CHAIR DESIGN:Analysis of three Danish modern classics with theories from Circular Economy (CE)
The Danish furniture industry has since the mid twentieth century seen a steady rise in its popularity and demand, and this has been an international phenomenon (Hedemann & Nissen, 2013). This popularity is often attributed to the furniture designers of those times, like Børge Mogensen, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjærholm, Hans Wegner etc, whose designs from that era came to be known as the ‘Danish modern furniture design’ (Hansen, 2006; Teilmann-Lock, 2020). Kaare Klint, often referred to as the father of Danish modern design, revolutionized early 20th-century furniture design education, where his pedagogy involved measuring and analysing human anatomy and traditional furniture to understand their function, enabling designers to create contemporary pieces by refining these 'types' to perfection (Hansen & Mussari, 2018; Teilmann-Lock, 2020, p. 5). One peculiar part of Klint’s teachings was that his students were tasked with disassembling and measuring traditional chair types, such as Windsor or Chippendale chairs, to then design based on their analyses (ibid). As it so happened, majority of the designers from that era designed chairs, which would then go on to gain an ‘iconic’ status, between the period of 1930 to 1960 (Hansen & Mussari, 2018). In the wake of new legislations aimed at promoting more sustainable and circular products to enter the EU market, amongst which ‘furniture’ is a product group that will see legislative mandates such as Digital Product Passports (DPP), new life-cycle analysis (LCA) methodologies like Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) etc which create the need for new knowledge (European Commission, 2020, 2022). In the context of Danish modern chairs, this knowledge needs to address whether the beloved designs from that era would fit into a new market where soon certain criteria will be imposed and whether these mandates would affect the designs in any way and more importantly, it would be interesting to see whether these iconic chairs can be called ‘circular’ or not. Hence, this paper ...
CIRCULARITY IN THE DANISH MODERN CHAIR DESIGN:Analysis of three Danish modern classics with theories from Circular Economy (CE)
The Danish furniture industry has since the mid twentieth century seen a steady rise in its popularity and demand, and this has been an international phenomenon (Hedemann & Nissen, 2013). This popularity is often attributed to the furniture designers of those times, like Børge Mogensen, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjærholm, Hans Wegner etc, whose designs from that era came to be known as the ‘Danish modern furniture design’ (Hansen, 2006; Teilmann-Lock, 2020). Kaare Klint, often referred to as the father of Danish modern design, revolutionized early 20th-century furniture design education, where his pedagogy involved measuring and analysing human anatomy and traditional furniture to understand their function, enabling designers to create contemporary pieces by refining these 'types' to perfection (Hansen & Mussari, 2018; Teilmann-Lock, 2020, p. 5). One peculiar part of Klint’s teachings was that his students were tasked with disassembling and measuring traditional chair types, such as Windsor or Chippendale chairs, to then design based on their analyses (ibid). As it so happened, majority of the designers from that era designed chairs, which would then go on to gain an ‘iconic’ status, between the period of 1930 to 1960 (Hansen & Mussari, 2018). In the wake of new legislations aimed at promoting more sustainable and circular products to enter the EU market, amongst which ‘furniture’ is a product group that will see legislative mandates such as Digital Product Passports (DPP), new life-cycle analysis (LCA) methodologies like Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) etc which create the need for new knowledge (European Commission, 2020, 2022). In the context of Danish modern chairs, this knowledge needs to address whether the beloved designs from that era would fit into a new market where soon certain criteria will be imposed and whether these mandates would affect the designs in any way and more importantly, it would be interesting to see whether these iconic chairs can be called ‘circular’ or not. Hence, this paper ...
CIRCULARITY IN THE DANISH MODERN CHAIR DESIGN:Analysis of three Danish modern classics with theories from Circular Economy (CE)
Guha, Aroop Ratan (author)
2024-09-13
Guha , A R 2024 , ' CIRCULARITY IN THE DANISH MODERN CHAIR DESIGN : Analysis of three Danish modern classics with theories from Circular Economy (CE) ' , Circular Economy: The pathway towards a Sustainable Development , Chania , Greece , 11/09/2024 - 13/09/2024 .
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
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