Dansk Kunsthåndværk
Volume 27, Nos. 10-11, October-November 1957
Viggo Sten Møller [Adm. Director]
Viggo Sten Møller [Adm. Director]: Dansk Kunsthåndværk [Danish Crafts]. København: Landsforeningen Dansk Kunsthåndværk [National Association of Danish Crafts], October-November 1954. [Volume 27, Nos. 10-11]. Text in Danish and English. Slim quarto. Stapled letterpressed wrappers. 72 pp. Articles and advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn, otherwise a nearly fine copy indeed.
8.25 x 11.75 Danish Journal for Interior Decoration, Design, Crafts and Industry with 72 pages of text and advertisments published by the National Association of Danish Crafts, Copenhagen. The Executive Committee of the National Association of Danish Crafts in 1954 consisted of Poul Michelsen, Jacob Kjaer, Chr. Christiansen, Sigurd Christiansen, Rudolf Jørgensen, Mathalie Krebs, and A. Skjerbaek
- Introduction: includes work by Jacob Kjær
- The Jubilee Exhibition of Danish Cabinet-makers by Sigurd Schulz: includes work by Hans Wegner, Johannes Hansen, Vestergaard Jensen, Børge Mogensen, Erhard Rasmussen, Vilhelm Wohlert, L. Pontoppidan, Peter Hvidt and O. Mølgaard Nielsen for Fritz Hansens Eftfl., Tove and Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Ole Wanscher for A. J. Iversen, Ole Wanscher for Rudolf Rasmussens Snedkeri, Jacob Kjær, Torsten Johansson, Finn Juhl for France & Daverkosen, Arne Jacobsen, and Kaare Klint for Rudolf Rasmussens Snedkeri among others
- New Flatware Services of Silver and Stainless Steel by Esbjørn Hiort: includes work by Erik Herløw for Universal Steel Co., Tias Eckhof for Georg Jensen, Ole Hagen for A. Michelsen, Jens Quistgaard for Raadvad Knivfabrik, Kay Bojesen for Mottala Works, and Acton Bjørn for Dansk Knivfabrik
- Equipment Furniture by Bent Salicath: includes work by Grethe Meyer and Børge Mogensen, Ejnar Larsen and A. Bender Madsen for Brande Møbelfabrik, Ib Kofod-Larsen for Brande Møbelfabrik, and Hans Wegner for Ry Møbler
- The Triennial: Denmark [arranged by Finn Juhl]: includes work by Georg Jensen, Henning Koppel, Finn Juhl, Kay Bojesen for Universal Steel Co., Peter Hvidt and O. Mølgaard Nielsen and Edvard Kindt-Larsen for France and Daverkosen, and Vibeke Klint
- Details from the Triennial: includes work by Henning Koppel for Georg Jensen, Paula Trock for Illums Bolighus, Eva Staehr-Nielsen and Nathalie Krebs for Saxbo, Richard Kjærgaard, Magnus Stephensen for Georg Jensen, and Christian Poulsen
- The Annual "Lunning Prize" Awarded to Two Scandinavian Craftsmen: Ingeborg Lundin and Jens H. Quistgaard
- How did it become like that? by Poul Kjærholm
- New Printed Fabrics by Marie Gudme Leth
- Arne Jacobsen, Architect and Designer
- Kay Bojesen's Indoor Playground
- Information
Advertisers include Tove and Edv. Kindt-Larsen, Agnete Gjødvad for Unika-Væv, Søren Sass for A. Michelsen, Hans Wegner for Getama, Hans Wegner for Fritz Hansens EFTFL., Jacob Kjær, Gerda Bengtsson for Haanarbejdets Fremme, Eva Stæhr-Nielsen and Nathalie Krebs for Saxbo Stentøj, Aage Helbig Hansen for Dansk, Hans Wegner for A/S Planmøbel, R. Wengler, Hans Wegner for A. P. Stolen, Hans Wegner for Aksel Sørensen, Hans Bunde for Carl M. Cohr, Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen and Søn, Poul M. Volther for FDB Møbler, Kurt Østervig for Jason, Helge Sibast for Sibast-Møbler, Bjørn Wiinblad for Nymolle, Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov, Arne Erkers for Just Andersen, Karl Gustav Hansen for Hans Hansen, Næstved Møbelfabrik, Ebbe Sadolin for Bing and Grøndahl, Per Lütken for Holmegaards Glasværk, Henning Seidelin for Søholm A/S, Edvard Kindt-Larsen for France and Daverkosen, Axel Salto for L. F. Foght, Nils Thorsson for The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufacturey, Magnus Stephensen for Georg Jensen, Tove Kindt-Laresen for L. F. Foght, Jens H. Quistgaard for Eslau Keramik, Jens H. Quistgaard for O. V. Mogensen, Grete Meyer and Børge Mogensen for Søborg Møbelfabrik, Jens H. Quistgaard for Raadvad Cutleri Works Ltd., Jens H. Quistgaard for Finn Christensen Sølvvarefabrik, Erik Wørts for Henrik Wørts, Hans Wegner for Johannes Hansen, Hans Wegner for Ry Møbler, Knud Juul-Hansen, Finn Juhl for Bovirke, Steen Eil. Rasmussen and Kai Lyngfeldt Larsen for Bork's Patenttavler, Erik Ole Jørgensen for Georg Jørgensen & Son, Laurids Lønborg, Frigast of Copenhagen, Kay Bojesen, Louis Poulsen, Niels Vodder, Harbo Sølvsten and Erik Andersen for Harbo Sølvsten Århus, N. A. Jorgensens Møbelfabrik, A. Andersen & Bohm, Eske Kristensen for L. Pontoppidan, Sigvard Bernadotte and Acton Bjørn for Slagelse Møbelværk, and Mogens Lassen for K. Thomsen among others.
Dansk Kunsthåndværk [Danish Crafts] was the house organ for the National Association of Danish Crafts in Copenhagen published beginning in 1927. According to their website, the aim of The Danish Arts and Crafts Association is to work for the development of Danish arts and crafts; to care for members interest in all matter concerning trade, continued development and education; to propagate for knowledge of and use of artist and crafts-people and their works in all parts of the society; and to strengthen and coordinate the area of arts and crafts with special reference to create knowledge and recognition for arts and crafts as a cultural factor.