The Art of Living
The entryway is the room a household passes through most and furnishes last. Inside the pieces that do the real work, from wall-mounted coat racks and storage benches to shoe racks, mirrors and baskets.
The sofa gets chosen first, but the coffee table does the daily work. Inside six Scandinavian coffee tables in oak, marble and cast glass, and how to choose the right size, shape and finish for your room.
A televised solar eclipse gave the Corona Chair its name; geometry gave it everything else. Inside Poul M. Volther's 1964 lounge chair, its spring steel frame, and the rooms where it earns the corner.
Poul Henningsen's three-shade system turns 100, and Louis Poulsen is marking the year in two ways. Inside the new glossy colour PH table lamps, the amber glass Centenary editions, and where each belongs.
Screens have grown thinner and larger while the furniture beneath them has barely moved. Inside Pedestal, the Danish brand that puts the television on steel legs, and the five stands now in Canada.
The round, rectangular, square, and half-round Aalto Tables all stand on the bent birch L-leg Alvar Aalto patented in 1933. Inside the sizes, the birch and linoleum tops, and the shape to pick for each room.
A visit to Japanese washi papermakers set Norm Architects sketching, and Audo's Hashira Collection followed. Inside the linen-shaded lamp family: pendant, floor, wall, ceiling, table, and a cordless portable.
Louis Poulsen created the PH 80 in 1974 for what would have been Poul Henningsen's 80th birthday. Inside the tribute lamp: the opal acrylic shades, the red reflector, and the new table and portable versions.
Nine modules, thirty configurations, and a fabric list deep enough to make the In Situ truly yours. Inside Anderssen & Voll's modular sofa for Muuto and how custom upholstery ordering works at Habitus.
Outside the studios of the Danish Radio House, small lamps glowed red or green. Inside Vilhelm Lauritzen, the architect behind them, and the five VL lamp families Louis Poulsen still builds today.
Two wire panels, three shelves, one box. Inside the String Pocket, Nisse Strinning's final design for String Furniture, the wood finishes worth knowing, and the all-steel version built for kitchens and baths.
Founded in 1935 by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl, Artek set out to sell furniture and change how people lived. Inside the manifesto, the Turku factory, and 2nd Cycle.
