Georg Jensen introduced the colorful Koppel pitchers as other heritage Danish brands started to offer their own vibrant takes on classic pieces. The colors chosen for the pitcher came from original product sketches done in the 1950s. One of those wares, the Koppel pitcher, was released last year in cobalt blue, pistachio green and other hues, under the direction of Georg Jensen’s current creative director, Ragnar Hjartarson. Manville, who now oversees the home division at Moda Operandi, the online luxury goods retailer. Finding the right palettes took time, said Mr. When he was at Georg Jensen, which was founded in 1904, he began an initiative to reproduce some of the company’s stainless-steel wares in color. Jacobsen’s vision for the hotel, which is now a Radisson, did not include “a white room.”) Jacobsen made the Egg and Swan chairs in 1958 as part of a project to design the original interiors at the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, where he decorated rooms in teal bedspreads and curtains with a graphic pattern of semicircles. Centuries later, the Danish architect Verner Panton made vibrant shades of orange and violet a hallmark of his furniture and interiors.Įven Arne Jacobsen, the architect and interior designer whose midcentury modern Egg and Swan chairs advanced the minimalist style of decorating, occasionally favored maximalist elements of Denmark’s past. Vikings who lived in the area used a rainbow of colors - red, blue, yellow, green, pink, purple - when making textiles, shields and ship sails thousands of years ago. When Nicholas Manville started a job as the creative director at the Danish silverware maker Georg Jensen, he knew Denmark had a decorative history that was less subdued than the neutral palettes and minimalist interiors that have come to characterize décor in both the country and the larger Scandinavian region.
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