An introduction to Danish Modern

It is impossible to discuss mid-century Danish chair design without talking about Danish Modern – a broad style of furniture, textiles, lighting and other housewares which gained international fame in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of them are admired to this day.

Danish Modern was born of the urge to create more functional and usable objects. While partly influenced by the Bauhaus and other art movements of the 1920s, Danish modernists steered away from the machine aesthetic and from the search for a 'perfect' design; instead, they aimed for an 'appropriate' design, focusing on form, use and materials.