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In 1966, Ekornes started production of lounge furniture. In 1971, Stressless® chairs were introduced on the Norwegian market. [3] [4] Jens E. Ekornes was the sole owner of the company until 1960, when his brothers Leif and Martin became co-owners in a joint stock company J. E. Ekornes Fabrikker AS. Upon his death in 1976, Martin Ekornes took ...
The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.
Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture design, creating clean, pure lines based on an understanding of classical furniture craftsmanship coupled with careful research into materials, proportions ...
Jens Petter Ekornes (2 January 1942 – 22 June 2008) was a Norwegian businessperson, known as CEO of Ekornes. He was born in Ørsta as a son of Sigurd Ekornes (1906–) and Margit Helene Pedersen (1912–1983). In August 1963 he married saleswoman Kari Blakstad. [1] His uncle Jens E. Ekornes founded the Ekornes furniture factory and company in ...
This is a list of Danish furniture designers. Summary biographies and background on many of the most important players can be found in the Danish modern article which covers Denmark's richest furniture design period.
The Danish Culture Canon credits Thorvald Bindesbøll (1846–1908) with early contributions to design in the areas of ceramics, jewellery, bookbinding, silver and furniture although he is known in the rest of the world for creating the Carlsberg logo (1904), still in use today. [1]
Review of the macro crosscurrents. Thanksgiving dinner got cheaper. From the American Farm Bureau: "The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 39th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey provides a ...
Scan Furniture was a co-operative furniture chain that operated six stores in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area selling modern Scandinavian furniture. Unusually, it was founded in 1938 as a grocery store in Greenbelt, Maryland , which became the Greenbelt Cooperative in 1940.