\u2018When old men become really old, they often buy a new Porsche. I bought a lathe,\u2019 recalls Danish architect and designer Hans B\u00f8lling, now 91 and gregarious and prolific as ever. A decade since he acquired it, the lathe continues to sit in his home workshop in Charlottenlund, to...
Famous for his midcentury wooden figurines, nonagenarian Danish designer Hans Bølling unveils new furniture for Brdr Krüger and American Hardwood Export Council
Or rather, a dedication to playing, as Bølling likes to say. For all the wisdom that the years have brought, he retains a boyish sense of curiosity and joy that immediately brings to mind his celebrated wooden animals: among them a family of dogs with articulated joints and floppy leather ears, and a teak duck and duckling with moveable heads.
The new ‘HB’ coffee table is the most direct translation of the ‘Tray’, made wider and lower and with its wheels removed. Meanwhile, the stool and lounge chair derive their four-leg structures from it. The stool has an additional pair of horizontal bars at the top to support the canvas seating surface. The chair likewise has a canvas seat, plus gently bowing canvas armrests, and an adjustable back cushion that can be slid up and down with a counterweight.
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