Dansk Kunsthåndværk
Volume 27, No. 12, December 1954
Viggo Sten Møller [Adm. Director]
Viggo Sten Møller [Adm. Director]: Dansk Kunsthåndværk [Danish Crafts]. København: Landsforeningen Dansk Kunsthåndværk [National Association of Danish Crafts], December 1954. [Volume 27, No. 12]. Text in Danish. Slim quarto. Stapled letterpressed wrappers. 32 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 32 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
- Arbejdsopgaver I det gamle og det nye år by Søren Hansen
- Rörstrand Udstillingen: på Kunstindustrimuseet — fajancens historie I en nøddeskal by Hans Lassen: includes work by Louise Adelborg, Carl-Harry Stålhane, Gunnar Nylund, and Marianne Westman
- Et japansk udstillingshus by Mary Beatrice Bloch
- Nye træk i svensk textilkunst by Gertie Wandel: includes work by Edna Martin, Stein Kauppi, and Kajsa Melanton
- Toini Muona — en finsk keramiker by Christian Poulsen
- Oluf Høst intime — Af en malers dagbogsoptegnelser
- Finn Juhl "Hjemmets indretning": Thaning & Appel 1954, 176 sider, kr. 6, 75
- Farisæerens Scrapbog: Eksempler på industrial design
- En stoftrykker i italien by Ruth Christensen
- Og bag dem synger stemplerne: En kommentar "Industrial-Design" — virksomheden by Bent Salicath
- Julekort and notes includes work by Øverst Vilhelm Lundstrom, Marianne Herlufsdatter and Lard Thirslund
- Full-page color ad for L. F. Foght — præsenterer dessin "Himalaya" tegnet af Preben Jangaard
Advertisers include Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen and Søn, Just Andersen, Vilh. Wohlert for Le Klint, Hans Wegner for Getama, Nils Thorssen for Den Kongelige Porcelainsfabrik, Ole Hagen for A. Michelsen, Magnus Stephensen for Georg Jensen, Karl Gustan Hansen for Hans Hansen, Hans Bunde for Carl M. Cohr, Børge Mogensen for FDB Møbler, Nymolle, Felix Keramik and Gutte Eriksen for Haandarbejdets Fremme, Helge Sibast for Sibast-Møbler, and Kurt Østervig for Jason 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.