hard core

Dear Sheddists,

a short warning in advance...

THIS POSTING FEATURES HARD CORE SCANDINAVIAN CHAIR PORN!!!!

The Danish Design Center is to be found just beyond the royal palaces on the east side of Copenhagen harbour.  It occupies the site of the old Fredericks Hospital and features an amazing selection of twentieth-century Danish art and craft.

Pride of place goes to the Danish Chair Exhibition. It's housed in one of the four wings of the old hospital behind thick PVC door-strip curtains - the kind you might find at the entrance to an industrial refrigeration unit.

We push them apart and enter a long tunnel clad with a jet black ceiling.  Our breath is fair taken away. Ranged along each side of the tunnel behind neat, geometric windows are a series of stunning Danish Modern chairs. They include some designed by Hans J. Wegner and if you've read earlier posts in this series you'll know already we're staying in the Wegner Room at the Hotel Alexandra.

There are just so many beautiful shapes and forms to take in as we walk the length of the tunnel before diving back into the main part of the Center.  Perhaps as you look at the photos below you can imagine walking with us.

Best regards,

electrofried(mr)

The galleries begin

The Danish Chair Exhibition

Fade out

back in time

Dear Sheddists,

we've booked into the Hotel Alexandra for the duration of our visit to Copenhagen and it's an absolute delight!

Located on Hans Christian Andersens Boulevard, its owners are The Preben Hansen Foundation, a charity established in 1967 by the hotel's founder.  Unlike the ubiquitous international chains plying their trade in cities across the world, The Alexandra is a hotel with a true difference. It's dedicated to Danish Modern design of the 50's and 60's and boasts a collection to rival any outside the museum circuit.

We're staying in the Hans J. Wegner room, which celebrates the work of the legendary, 'Master of the Chair'.  During his lifetime Hans designed over five hundred of them, including the famous 'Mama Bear' chair, two superb original examples of which are to be found in our room.

We'll let the photos do the talking - for the most part they were taken in the hotel reception area and in the Wegner room itself.

Best regards,

electrofried(mr)