This design first debuted at the 1941 Copenhagan Cabinetmaker’s Guild Exhibition, which ran annually from 1927 to 1966, highlighting the best in Danish furniture. Klint presented a collection of mahogany furniture, produced by Rud. Rasmussens Snedkerier, for a living room with a fireplace. The stately and refined sofa of this collection was accompanied by a handsome horseshoe table, both of which drew from traditional English furniture forms and were described as “deeply felt designs” by those who saw the room.
Among the good pieces of furniture, the ones designed by Kaare Klint for Rudolf Rasmussen are still the most important...The results of Klint's excellent work at the Academy of Fine Arts have now begun to influence some cabinetmakers and architects, but many more ought to take advantage of his achievements.
Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen
Kaare Klint 1888–1954
Recognized as the father of Danish furniture design, Kaare Klint was born in Copenhagen in 1888 to the family of architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint. While in his younger years he studied painting, he eventually apprenticed as a furniture maker, attended technical school, Jens Møller-Jensens furniture school, and the Artists' Studio Schools in Copenhagen. In 1914, at just 26 years old, Klint designed Denmark’s first modern design classic, the Faaborg Chair, for the Faaborg Museum in collaboration with his mentor and fellow architect Carl ‘Calle’ Petersen. Following the wide acclaim for his early designs, he received several other commissions for museums including the Thorvaldsens Museum and the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen.
Auction Results Kaare Klint
