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Product: Anine
Company: Horn Commodity Factory
Designer: Sara Bruun Buch

Horn bowls in a smart design

The West Jutland firm Horn goods factory’s vases Anine are nominated for the Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009. Based on kohorn, designer Sara Bech Bruun created a modern design product for the house. Horn goods factory is the only remaining company in Denmark producing handicrafts in kohorn.

The designer has managed to create beauty out of something so simple and natural as a kohorn. We have already seen the material in other functions, from powder horns for drinking cups to the current design. The vases are beautiful and modern with a perfect finish of the form in which the sharp line at the bottom is the icing on the cake, says the nomination committee.

Anine is designed by Sara Bruun Buch, who in October 2008 over the Horn of goods factory, and has since led the production of new design directions with respect for the old crafts. The concept behind Anine is dragging nature into the room with a touch of modernity. The result is decorative objects and vases, and the recommended retail price is from $ 499 to $ 699

About Formland Design Award:
Formland Design Award goes each half to the season’s most striking novelties in design, handicrafts and interior. The winner is chosen from among submissions from Form Lands exhibitors. The independent pricing committee’s emphasis is on innovation, functionality, design and price. The winner receives a prize statuette and a marketing contribution of 100,000 USD. Formland Design Award has been awarded since 1987.

The Scandinavian pricing committee consisted this time of the furniture designer and architect Birgitte Appelong, director of the Swedish, moderator Lotta Ahlvar, graphic designer John Boye and creative chief Jørn Moesgaard.

The winner of Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009 will be published on Friday 14 August at the official opening of Formland in MCH Fairs Herning. It has posted 70 products Formland Design Award. Read more about Formland Design Award at www.formland.com.

Formland Autumn 2009 will take place from 14 to 17 August 2009 in Fairs MCH Herning. It involves over 600 companies, which is at the same level as the latest exhibition in the spring. Formland celebrates its 25th anniversary of the fair days.

Twenty-four is a new and different Christmas light.

It creates a cosy Christmas atmosphere whilst counting the 24 days until Christmas evening. Decorated with Ice ferns to catch the light you can choose your own size and colour candle. Added to that you can decorate the space provided on the stainless steel base to create a really attractive festive piece.

Design: Christina Halskov og Hanne Dalsgaard

Materials – stainless steel and platinum-coated glass
Width – ø 17 & 10 cm
Height – 23 cm

The architects Bene dict, and Poul Erik Find from Tegnestuen Hindevadgård in Søndersø Fyn found ladders lacked aesthetics while they were unable to reach the upper shelves of the library shelves. Based on Høkerstigen by merchants used in the old days, they have created a modern design of the old classic. It can be seen at Formland Autumn 2009 14 to 17 August, which will take place at Fairs MCH Herning.

Stair ladders are manufactured in solid birch and have an extended grip on one side, that you can hold on to. This makes it suitable for people of all ages, whether it’s your child who has to reach the kitchen table, or you who needs to get something that is up in a cupboard. The steps are ergonomic and good to stand on. Even at the uppermost level, you are safe and comfortable with one hand on the extended grip.

Stair Ladders are functional and are good and safe to use daily. The special-designed brass fittings ensure that the ladder does not slip.

After use, the ladder can be folded together and hung on the wall using the included Wall Bracket and therefore is always at hand when you need it. It is simultaneously a simple tool that is reliable and display furniture when not in use.

The first product was in clear lacquer, but the latest products are also available in the colors black, white and orange, so you have the opportunity to create contrast or harmony in your home.

Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a miniature model of Holger Nielsen’s original Vipp pedal bin – to the delight of design enthusiasts across the world. The Vipp 70th Anniversary Edition has been produced in a scale of 1:5 and in a limited series of 400 numbered copies.

On the occasion of the anniversary, we decided to take a walk down memory lane: the Vipp 70th Anniversary Edition has been produced according to the specifications of the very first Vipp bin, created in Holger Nielsen’s workshop 70 years ago. The miniature bin comes with the original ears, logo and wavy lid.

The first Vipp bin saw the light of day in 1939 when Holger Nielsen created it for his wife Marie’s hairdressing salon. Much has happened over the past 70 years – the Vipp bin has been dressed in a variety of colours, it has been exhibited at the Louvre, and many international personalities in the worlds of fashion, design and music have sprinkled stardust on the Danish design icon. And yet, the Vipp bin remains just the same.

Down-to-earth and practical – timeless, elegant and designed to last the next 70 years.

The Vipp 70th Anniversary Edition is available in selected shops.

Retail price: GBP 80 / Euro 95

Meet Jette Egelund – the woman behind Vipp

Jette Egelund grew up with Vipp, and even as a little girl, she loved to watch the production of the bin – at first by looking over the shoulders of the employees and later by taking part in the production herself. It was a tough job in a man’s world, but she managed to get by. And so began the love for her father’s business, which she has headed since 1993.

The Vipp collection has been expanded significantly in recent years and now comprises everything from pedal bins through laundry bins to a complete series for the bathroom with a towel bar, toilet roll holder and much more. Find out more at www.vipp.com.

Price: £ 80 / EUR 95

Design: Holger Nielsen / Vipp Design Lab

Dimensions (cm): Ø 6 x H 10,4

Materials: stainless steel, rubber

Danish Crafts’ debut in Zona Tortona last year was such a resounding success that Danish Crafts is present once again in Zona Tortona during the Milan Design Week. This time with the exhibition MINDCRAFT 09,“shhh … Craft is Golden”, which showcases 12 of Denmark’s finest craftspeople and designers.  The exhibition is on display 21 through 26 April 2009 in Zona Tortona, Via Savona 55a.

 Danish craft and design is currently in a unique position and enjoys great international recognition and demand. With the exhibition MINDCRAFT 09, “Shhh … Craft is Golden”, Danish Crafts wishes to introduce the world to the huge potential, the gold, to be found in Danish craft and illustrate the great rewards awaiting anyone wishing to explore the world of craft. The title refers to the old adage, “speech is silver; silence is golden”, and thus, the exhibition highlights the values inherent in craft.

 In this case, the gold consists of 12 reflective, luminescent, rotating, crawling and, not least, provoking works that speak for themselves with great integrity thus demonstrating that this is the real thing.

 A wet bell, a woody benchmark and 10 hot water bottles

This year, 12 craftspeople and designers from Denmark’s absolute elite present 12 completely new works, and as in last year’s MINDCRAFT 08 exhibition, the works on display represent more than just material and technical skill. Characteristically, all the works are as much an artistic comment to the world we live in, and they all present the beholder with content rather than surface.

Last year, Danish Crafts’ exhibition MINDCRAFT 08 had more than 10,000 visitors, and in September 2008 when the exhibition was presented at 100% design in London, MINDCRAFT 08 received the award for “Best Contribution to 100% design”.

 The 12 craft artists participating in this year’s exhibition are:

Designers Ole Jensen, Louise Campbell, Cecilie Manz, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Salto & Sigsgaard

Furniture designer Christian Flindt

Textile designer Astrid Krogh

Ceramicists Louise Hindsgavl, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, Christin Johansson and

Steen Ipsen

Goldsmith Kim Buck

 Internationally acknowledged designers in “shhh … Craft is Golden” 

The designers selected for this exhibition are all internationally acknowledged designers with professional design training.

 Furniture designer Louise Campbell creates designs for the Italian furniture maker Zanotta, among others, and for several world-renowned Danish manufactures including Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Louis Poulsen and Hay Cph.

 Furniture designer Kasper Salto creates designs for the world-renowned Danish furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen, and furniture designer Ditte Hammerstrøm’s clients include the Danish furniture manufacturer Erik Jørgensen.

 Ceramicist Ole Jensen is known around the world for his washing-up bowl in rubber, which was launched by Danish Crafts and is now manufactured by Normann Copenhagen. Since the launch, the bowl has become a world-wide success and was followed up last year in Milan by the Rubber Tub. Ole Jensen also designed the series “Ole” for Royal Copenhagen as well as product series for Normann Copenhagen and Muuto.

 Designer Cecilie Manz is known for the lamp Caravaggio, which she designed for the Danish lamp manufacturer Light Years, as well as the glass series Minima for Holmegaard.

 Goldsmith Kim Buck designed the ring series Eclipse, Centenary and Nordic Summer for Georg Jensen.o_jensen_mc09_01.jpg

 The exhibition is curated and designed by Karen Kjærgaard.

 Additional information about the exhibition is available from Press Manager Dorthe Rud Michaelsen +45 2075 5152 or Director Birgitte Jahn, tel. +45 2015 6162.  They will both be present at the exhibition from April 21-27, 2009.

 Further information is also available at www.danishcrafts.org

 Danish Crafts is a national information centre that aims to highlight, promote and increase turnover for Danish crafts in Denmark and abroad. Danish Crafts is an independent institution under the Danish Ministry of Culture.

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