Important Nissen Quistgaard Teak Staved Barrel Salad Bowl and Servers
View Similar Items
Important Nissen Quistgaard Teak Staved Barrel Salad Bowl and Servers
About the Item
- Creator:Richard Nissen (Maker),Jens Quistgaard (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)Diameter: 10.88 in (27.64 cm)
- Style:Scandinavian Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1955
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Hyattsville, MD
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98577918923
Jens Quistgaard
The postwar-era work of Danish sculptor and designer Jens Harald Quistgaard is still exceedingly popular in living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens in the United States, Europe and Japan, particularly in the homes of mid-century design enthusiasts. Having created serving pieces and barware for Dansk Designs for 30 years, Quistgaard produced striking Scandinavian modernist designs that married function with sophisticated form.
After demonstrating artistic talent at a young age, Quistgaard was gifted a forge and anvil so that he could work in his mother’s kitchen. He built toys, jewelry and hunting knives under his father’s tutelage. Later, he spent years learning from local artisans how to produce wood, metal, ceramic and glass models. Quistgaard’s career path solidified during his apprenticeship as a silversmith with legendary Danish silver firm Georg Jensen.
By 1954, Quistgaard had become known for his designs in Denmark when American entrepreneur and businessman, Ted Nierenberg, discovered his work. The two formed a partnership to mass-produce Quistgaard’s wares in New York while the designer remained in Copenhagen.
The long-distance relationship flourished for three decades, during which millions of Quistgaard pieces were manufactured in the factories of Dansk Designs, Nierenberg’s company. Owing primarily to the partnership between Dansk Designs and Quistgaard, many Americans became familiar with Scandinavian modernism. In the postwar era, American tastemakers sold the citizenry on the “Scandinavian dream,” suggesting that, like us, the inhabitants of the Nordic nations valued home, hearth, family and good craftsmanship and design, as well as democracy.
The designs for Quistgaard’s Købenstyle line and other collections during the mid-1950s were revolutionary, with bowls built like barrels and charming, lightweight monochrome tableware in enameled steel. Quistgaard utilized exceptional materials in the creation of his coveted cookware and serving pieces, opting for warm teak and exotic woods and reintroducing steel as a go-to option for kitchen wares.
Quistgaard’s designs won numerous awards and are held in the collections of museums all over the world. His work can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere.
Find vintage Jens Harald Quistgaard decorative objects, serveware and other furniture on 1stDibs.
Richard Nissen
Richard Nissen was born in Denmark in 1928. After graduating in 1943, he began working in the factory. Nissen became operations manager in 1952, and in the 1950s, he decisively changed the profile of the wood products factory in the direction of being a manufacturer of design items. In 1955, he began the production of applied art in collaboration with the sculptor Jens H. Quistgaard, and in 1957 he bought the factory from his father. Nissens Trævarefabrik came to play a major role in the Danish Design wave, and for several years Richard Nissen employed about 220 people In 1970, however, internal divisions arose in DANSK Design, and Richard Nissen interrupted the year after the collaboration and continued on his own.
- 1950s Danish Staved Teak Quaich Midcentury Winged Viking Bowl CentrepieceLocated in Hyattsville, MDDenmark, circa 1950s. Staved teak bowl designed by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. A midcentury re-interpretation of the traditional wooden Quaich. Measures: 10 5/8 inches high, 10 inches...Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
$570 Sale Price40% Off - 1950s Scandinavian Cabinmodern Teak Sculptural Canoe Long Bowl DanishBy Jens QuistgaardLocated in Hyattsville, MDDenmark, c.1950. A long and large staved teak centerpiece fruit bowl designed by Jens Quistgaard, faint impressed marks to bottom.Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- 1950s Teak Orb Bowl Sigvard Nilsson Sowe Konst Sweden Scandinavian SculptureBy Sowe KonstLocated in Hyattsville, MDRare bowl designed and made by Sigvard Nilsson, Söwe konst. Made from solid teak and sculpted by hand in Sweden, c.1951. Centerpiece of Nut Bowl or Covered salad serrving bowl. An ...Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- 1950s Danish Teak Freeform Carved Nut Bowl Table Centerpiece Vintage ModernBy Finn JuhlLocated in Hyattsville, MDObscure Danish Design Company, AL-BO. Highly finished, thin walled Teak wedge-shaped bowl.Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
$557 Sale Price29% Off - 1960s Canoe Bowl American Studio Craft Woodworkers Banana CabinModern CraftsmanBy Robert McKeown, Jens QuistgaardLocated in Hyattsville, MDWonderful and intense piece of woodworking. Tight, sturdy and usable. Signed CKE. Artist/Craftsman unknown.Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- 7 Unknown Craftsman Studio Craft Turned Teak Bowl Set Midcentury Danish RusticBy Finn Juhl, Arthur Espenet CarpenterLocated in Hyattsville, MDExecuted by an unknown craftsman, an amazing set of 7 turned solid teak small bowls. Expertly thin edged, hand done and showing variations to the details in each bowl. No lathe marki...Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- Early Production Quistgaard Dansk Staved Teak Fruit or Salad Bowl DanmarkBy Jens QuistgaardLocated in Ferndale, MIJens Quistgaard for Dansk, Branded Mark Staved Teak JHQ DanmarkCategory
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
$450 Sale Price40% Off - Salad Bowl by Richard NissenBy Richard NissenLocated in Sagaponack, NYA Scandinavian Modern large scaled and beautifully crafted staved teak bowl having a subtly flaring round form. Designed and manufactured by Richard Nissen in Denmark, circa 1960s.Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- Early Staved Teak Bowl by Jens Quistgaard, DenmarkBy Jens QuistgaardLocated in St.Petersburg, FLA rare and hard to find, large teak bowl by J.Quistgaard. Unusual form with raised handles and great patina.Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
MaterialsTeak
$600 Sale Price20% Off - Teak Salad Bowl by Jens Quistgaard for DanskBy Dansk, Jens QuistgaardLocated in Fort Lauderdale, FLVintage staved teak large salad bowl design by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. Stamped "Dansk International Design LTD Thailand JHQ". Designer: Jens ...Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Serving Bowls
MaterialsTeak
$225 / item - Staved Teak Bowl by the Danish designer Jens Harald QuistgaardBy Jens QuistgaardLocated in Goteborg, SEStaved bowl in massive teak by Jens Harald Quistgaard. Quistgaard designed the bowl for his own company Dansk Designs and was inspired by traditional Scand...Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsTeak
- Jens Quistgaard Staved Teak Bowl for Dansk Design, Denmark, 1950sBy Jens Quistgaard, DanskLocated in Utrecht, NLJens H. Quistgaard set out to design beautiful things for everyday use, which is an essentially Scandinavian approach to design in general. Over the course of his prolific and varied design career, Jens Quistgaard created objects that are a meditation on the possibilities of shape for a common household object. Intriguing and fantastical, the variety of forms the sculptor manifested expand the vocabulary of functional design, calling on an array of familiar references including natural shapes. This solid wood bowl is a beautiful example of this, with an organic shape and an immediately visible level of craftsmanship. This rare model is an early iteration of the teak Viking...Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsWood