Pair of Shelves
Pair of wall mounted shelves
Teak round edge planks and steam-bent beech wood tie rods
Marked 'Made in Denmark' on the planks and the tie rods
DESIGNER Kristian Vedel (1923-2003)
MANUFACTURER Christiansen
COUNTRY Denmark
DATE 1960’s
DIMENSIONS H. 22 x W. 17 x L. 85 /cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Grete Jalk, ’40 Years of Danish Furniture Design – The Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibitions’. Vol. 3 pg. 94-95
SPECIAL NOTE
Kristian Vedel was a Danish industrial designer and part of the early Scandinavian Design movement. Educated as a cabinet maker in 1942, he studied at the Department of Furniture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1946 from the School of Arts, Craft and Design in Copenhagen. He was chairman of the Danish Furniture Designers and founding member of the first Society of Industrial Designers in Denmark. Between 1968 and 1971, Kristian started the first Department for Industrial Design at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Heavily influenced by Kaare Klint and the Bauhaus School, the Kristian Vedel Style was the “Classic Modern” with a creative use of materials and a strong sense of functionality and ergonomic design.
