Scandinavian design Archives

When Modernism Went Psychedelic | Verner Panton

For most of the early 1960s, Verner Panton drove around Europe trying to persuade someone to manufacture a chair. Fifteen manufacturers turned him down. One well-known American designer said the thing shouldn’t...

Août 23

The Designer Who Refused to Be Called a Designer

Arne Jacobsen was a Danish architect who refused to call himself a designer, yet he created some of the most iconic furniture of the twentieth century. The Egg, The Swan, The Ant,...

Mar 22

The Man Who Designed 500 Chairs (And Never Found the Perfect One) | Hans Wegner

Hans Wegner designed over 500 chairs in his lifetime. More than 100 went into mass production. One was called the most beautiful chair in the world and appeared in the first televised...

Mar 15

Did IKEA Democratize Design, or Kill It?

IKEA went from a mail-order business selling pens and stockings in rural Sweden, to the largest furniture company on earth. They had a core philosophy of the democratization of design from early...

Mar 1

When Modernism Went Psychedelic | Verner Panton

The Designer Who Refused to Be Called a Designer

The Man Who Designed 500 Chairs (And Never Found the Perfect One) | Hans Wegner

Did IKEA Democratize Design, or Kill It?

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