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Thorvald Bindesbøll Solid Oak Arts and Crafts Armchair, Denmark 1900’s

Name: Thorvald Bindesbøll Solid Oak Arts and Crafts Armchair, Denmark 1900’s
Brand: Thorvald Bindesbøll
Price: 13472.93 AUD
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About the Item

Rare and important solid oak armchair from circa 1900 by what you can call Denmarks first designer Thorvald Bindesbøll. Thorvald Bindesbøll (July 21, 1846, in Copenhagen – August 27, 1908, in Frederiksberg) was a Danish architect and designer. Bindesbøll was the son of architect Gottlieb Bindesbøll and the brother of Johanne Bindesbøll. He remained unmarried. He was the son of architect M.G. Bindesbøll and Andrea Frederikke Andersen (1819-1899). His father died when Bindesbøll was only ten years old, but the home, which was characterized by a high artistic culture, continued to influence him during his upbringing. In 1862, he graduated from Borgerdyd School in Christianshavn with a preliminary exam, and the previous year he had already begun attending the Academy of Fine Arts to train as an architect like his father. He went through the various classes and graduated as an architect in 1876. Already as a student, he was tasked with designing the main building for the Hjuleberg estate in Halland for the family's close friend, merchant Rudolph Puggaard. Bindesbøll never received much encouragement from the Academy. Although he received its small gold medal in 1882 (for a bathhouse in Italian Renaissance style), he never won the large medal and never received any scholarships or travel grants. Nevertheless, he managed to travel to Italy and Paris a few times on his own. Because he remained marginalized as an architect, Bindesbøll increasingly turned to crafts, where he made his most significant contributions and truly found his own style. Already as a child, he designed embroidery patterns for his sister Johanne. In his numerous embroidery drawings from the 1860s and 1870s, Bindesbøll showed his knowledge of classical antiquity's ornamentation and a unique skill in combining its various elements. Additionally, particularly in the 1880s, he gained extensive knowledge of the textile ornamentation of high cultures, especially India and Japan. This rigorous training in specific tasks gave him a familiarity and confidence in everything related to decoration. In 1883, he ventured into ceramics, encouraged by his friend and architect Andreas Clemmensen, who had encountered the sgraffito technique in Italy and wished to use it on tiles for house facades. Ceramics liberated him, forcing him to work quickly, and it was through this material that he developed his own, completely independent yet tradition-based ornamentation. Bindesbøll began by decorating his artist friends' clay dishes, but soon learned to fill an entire surface with a solid yet lively abstract decoration. Working with large jars contributed to simplifying and varying his style simultaneously. The forms were robust and traditional, making it easy for the potters to memorize them, accustomed as they were to the repetitive turning of pickle jars. He worked with Johan Wallmann in Utterslev from 1883-1890 and with G. Eifrig in Valby from 1891-1904. Between these periods, during the summers of 1890 and 1891, he worked with faience at Kähler in Næstved, and around 1905 he created several models for earthenware for P. Ipsen's Widow. The period with Wallmann was especially experimental in terms of color. During the demolition of Vestervold, he and August Jerndorff collected two boxes of pottery shards and faience fragments, which continued to inspire him. The period with G. Eifrig meant a color simplification to black-white-yellow or complete monochrome. Bindesbøll is included in the Cultural Canon for his life's work, which includes his glazed jars, the label for Carlsberg Pilsner (HOF), furniture, and the Fish Warehouses in Skagen. Both as an architect and designer, he managed to completely free himself from the historicism of his time and, with his deeply personal style, was ahead of his time.

Creator:

Thorvald Bindesbøll (Artist)

Attributed to:

Rud Rasmussen (Cabinetmaker)

Dimensions:

Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)Depth: 19.3 in (49 cm)Seat Height: 18.9 in (48 cm)

Style:

Arts and Crafts (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Leather,Oak,Hand-Carved,Hand-Crafted,Patinated

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

1900-1909

Date of Manufacture:

1900’s

Condition:

Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Valby, DK

Materials

Wool, Beech

Three Arts and Crafts oak dining armchairs with arched tops and shaped slats to the back making them very comfy armchairs. Professionally recovered in a quality wine coloured leather.

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