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MODUS by Kristian Solmer Vedel SET of 3 lounge chairs 1 stool & 2 coffee tables

$11,659.89per set
£8,727.46per set
€9,800per set
CA$16,015.15per set
A$17,906.90per set
CHF 9,392.92per set
MX$216,895.52per set
NOK 118,567.08per set
SEK 112,017.25per set
DKK 74,610.23per set

About the Item

This set was designed by Kristian Solmer Vedel for the renowned Søren Willadsen Møbelfabrik in Denmark. It boasts excellent original condition. The set includes two lounge armchairs and a lounge armchair with a high backrest and an upholstered stool, which can also be used as a footrest. From a beautifully crafted and impressively sturdy tropical timber frame, a lightweight mesh serves as the seat straps, cradling supple and gracefully tufted leather cushions filled with goose down for optimal comfort and flexibility. Two coffee tables with their removable original brushed aluminum table tops complete this exceptional set. Kristian Solmer Vedel was a Danish industrial designer who made a significant impact in the field. Born on March 2, 1923, and passing away on March 5, 2003, Vedel's legacy continues to inspire and shape the world of design. He completed his carpenter apprenticeship in 1942. From 1944 to 1945, he was a guest student of Professor Kaare Klint at the furniture department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 1946, he graduated from the Department of Furniture Design at the School of Arts, Crafts and Design in Copenhagen, where he also lectured from 1953 to 1956. From 1947 to 1949, he served as Chairman of the Danish Furniture Designers. He was the driving force behind the establishment of the Industrial Designers of Denmark and served as the inaugural chairman of the association from 1966 to 1968. His work is unmistakably shaped by the German Bauhaus style. Kristian Vedel organized and headed the Department of Industrial Design at the University of Nairobi in Kenya between 1968 and 1971. He and his wife Ane returned to Denmark in 1972 to open a design studio on Thyholm in northwest Jutland. On Thyholm, Kristian Vedel devoted most of his time to cultivating the surrounding landscape, breeding Shropshire sheep, and researching the use of their wool, hides, and meat. Shipping :: I'd be more than happy to offer you the most competitive shipping option if you just provide me with your postcode! For the fastest and most secure shipping, your item will be shipped by air freight and packed in a custom-made wooden OSB board box (120cm x 80 cm x 140cm high) on pallet DAP (Delivery At Place).
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  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30.32 in (77 cm)Width: 28.35 in (72 cm)Depth: 25.2 in (64 cm)Seat Height: 14.97 in (38 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 6
  • Style:
    Scandinavian Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1960s
  • Condition:
    in very good condition.
  • Seller Location:
    Landshut, DE
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU8587242440792

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Every carpenter at that time mastered all the possibilities of woodworking: so did the Nothelfer. They could carpenter, even carve altars and figures, and set them in gold, silver and paint. (churches in Owingen and Hödingen]. Some family members lived and worked and worked in Hedingen or Hödingen,like today the jubilarian Karl Nothelfer (this in 1975). His father, Karl Anton Nothelfer, as the eldest of seven siblings, was able to take over his father's carpentry business in Überlingen. Karl Anton Nothelfer, the eldest of seven siblings, was unable to take over his father's carpentry business in Überlingen. He instead moved to the industrial town of Singen with his young wife Rosalie, née Hanner, from the from Hohenzollern in 1896 and moved to the former Poststraße and founded his own carpenter's workshop. He had a highsense of quality and form and was already a member of the German Werkbund before 1914. Karl Nothelfer and his three siblings grew up in such air. After attending school and the secondary school in Singen, the young Karl learned the carpenter's trade in his father's workshop then moved on to the Badische Landes-Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where he studied architecture. At that time the well-known furniture professor also worked there Fritz Spannagel, born in Freiburg in 1891, who settled in 1938 at Ittendorf Castle near Meers- burg (died 1957). In 1928, the gifted young architect received a teaching assignment at the at the Karlsruhe School of Art, but followed his teacher Spannagel to Berlin in the same year. Berlin. Here he worked from 1928-1945 as a teacher - appointed professor in 1931 - at the Berlin Tischler-Schule, the later Bauschule für Raumgestaltung. The furniture he created in Berlin became internationally known through many exhibitions and lectures. nationally known and influential. His furniture creations ushered in a new era in German and a new era in German and European furniture design. At the world exhibition in Paris 1937 Prof. Nothelfer was awarded the Golden Medal for his work in the furniture sector. for his work in the furniture sector. A first summary and balance of his work on furniture is given in his standard work 1942 published standard work "Das Sitzmöbel", the first compendium of its kind in the world. world. In 1950 he published his second work "Furniture". Both books and a series of brochures were published by Verlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg. Karl Nothelfer continued to work intensively on the design of seating furniture in the years after 1945. In 1950 he succeeded in the important invention of the two-legged skid-base chair, which has been orthopedically - anatomically tested thousands of times - has become accepted all over the world today. Even the most distinguished American furniture companies such as Miller or Knoll-International use the skid as the main theme for desks and chairs. At the same time, N. had a groundbreaking in the redesign of German school furniture and seating for industry. industry. He succeeded in adapting his furniture forms, which originated in wood and handicraft, to the modern technical modern technical possibilities of the industry. He thus became the great refor- of schoolroom furnishings. The architect Nothelfer thinks about himself, that he made his main contribution in the field of seating furniture, although this was not was not really his profession. After the war, Prof. Nothelfer, like so many others, had to start all over again. He settled settled in his home town of Lake Constance in Hödingen in 1945 as a freelance architect and was and was involved in all areas of construction in the years after the war. As early as 1935, he had given many the example of American prefabricated buildings and recommended serial house and recommended it at a time when no one in Germany was even thinking about mass production. Now he developed he developed several types of mass-produced houses, which were manufactured in Baiersbronn. of which more than 800 houses were built in France alone (types Paris, Provence, Normandie). were built. At that time [1946], as part of the reparations in Strasbourg, there was an exhibition of houses with Swedish, Danish, and French designs. with Swedish, Danish, Finnish, English and German houses, where the French occupation for which 6 different types were sent from the French occupation zone, the Nothelfer's house type was considered the top of this exhibition. Karl Nothelfer was also involved in the development of chipboard. In 1946, together with others in Munich, he founded the first magazine "Bauen und Wohnen" ("Building and Living") after the war and remained its co-editor for many years. co-editor of this magazine for many years. 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