Skyscraper
In this re-edition of the vase designed by Bodil Kjær in the early 1960s, architecture is the key feature. Its transparency magnifies the complex shape of the object, reminiscent of a skyscraper. Its sculptural shape is achieved through a particularly complex glass process requiring excellent artisan skills. Skyscraper is made of transparent glass mechanically pressed into a cast-iron mould to create the shape of a building and its elegant architectural details, an extremely arduous process, due to the considerable thickness of the glass.
| About Designer | |
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Bodil Kjær |
She has been featured in The New York Times and Wall Street
Journal Magazine. She designed a desk for MIT which was dubbed ‘The most
beautiful desk in the world’ and eventually immortalized in 3 early James Bond
movies. Danish architect, designer and professor Bodil Kjær (born 1932) is the
female trailblazer of Danish midcentury design, who although tutored by
modernist master Finn Juhl, in her own words “… never had much interest in
following in the footsteps of the Danish rat pack”. Kjær looked to America,
inspired by Charles and Ray Eames, and indeed many of her most notable designs
stems from her time in the U.S., where she briefly worked at Paul McCobb,
before moving to Boston to further her career in corporate interior
architecture.
Kjær’s reignited prominence as a designer in later years is well
deserved. Pared back, elegant and decidedly modern, her iconic pieces slip
effortlessly into contemporary life 60 years on. Today, Bodil Kjær is back in
Denmark and lives on the east coast of Jutland where she continues to teach, do
research and participate in the architectural development of the city of
Aarhus. |
