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Nothing like a Dane

Open your mind and your living space to simple Continental form

and handmade contemporary craft, says Corinne Julius

Evening Standard Homes & Property Wednesday, 12 September 2007 INTERIORS 15

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ARELY do curators go to the lengths

the Danish government has gone to, to

share its vision of Danish design with

Londoners. Not content with holding a

simple exhibition, it has taken over a

Knightsbridge mews house and turned

it into a Danish home — right down to rye

bread and herrings in the fridge.

As part of the London Design Festival, Dan￾ish architect Rene Hougaard, in conjunction

with CGL Architects, has remodelled the

house, replacing internal walls with glass

bricks and inserting skylights and a glass floor

in the home-office, to allow more light to enter

the ground floor.

This traditional mews house has been

completely opened up, creating an open-plan

living area and kitchen on the ground floor,

with two bathrooms, an office and a bedroom

on the second.

The plank floors by Dinesen flooring are the

widest and longest possible. The furniture and

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

15-25 September

‘Purchasers could move in

without having to buy a thing –

not even a dustpan and brush’

best, highlighting contemporary trends and

traditional quality,” says Laerke Haiberg

Svendsen of the Danish embassy.

At the end of the show the house and all its

contents will be for sale. It is fully furnished

and purchasers could move in without having

to buy a thing — not even a dustpan and brush.

■ Townhouse DK, 20 Egerton Gardens Mews,

SW3, is open during London Design Festival,

15-25 September, from 10am to 5pm daily, then

10am to 5pm Monday to Friday until December.

Rene Hougaard has completely

opened up the mews house.

Right, at £1,291, this three-legged

shell chair by Carl Hansen & Son is

just one example of the functional,

but stylish, Danish design items to be

seen in the house

accessories showcase newer designers and

companies; such as a smart, white dining table

with steel legs and a day bed by Dnmark,

ornately patterned, stackable, paper storage

units by Pure Nomade and engaging asymmet￾rical ceramics by Rikke Jacobsen and Rigmor

Als. The house is aimed at a young professional

couple with no children and is a very classic

modern design.

“Designers and architects, as well as

furniture and product manufacturers are

collaborating to show Danish living at its

Above, open-plan living just got wider, with long,

wide planks by Dinesen flooring adding to the

sense of space in the living area

A

DANISH interior space

would be the perfect

setting for many of the

handmade objects in

Hue, Line and Form at

Contemporary Applied Arts.

Founders of consultancy

Briing, Peter Ting (from

Asprey’s) and Brian Kennedy

(a fine artist and curator),

harness current trends in

design and fashion to show

how to select the best of

contemporary craft.

“Colour is one of the

strongest themes at the

moment,” explains Ting, “so

we’ve gone for really strong

colour like the acid yellow of Natasha

Daintry’s enormous platter or Rupert Spira’s

teapot or harlequin coffee service.”

Strong graphic imagery is another theme

represented by David Roberts’s almost Pop Art

black and white ceramics, Katie Walker’s

ribbon chair or Mark Bickers’s lights.

“Form, too, is really important and

we’re recommending pieces by people like

Ed Teasdale, who makes blanket boxes from

reclaimed wood, or silversmith David Clarke,

who cuts up and reassembles traditional silver

in challenging new forms that combine into

new functions.”

Unusually, the curators will move in half-way

through the show and re-curate the themes

using work by another 30 makers. In part two,

the work will be a gentler and less forceful

take, with ceramic installations by Kuldeep

Malhi in softer tones and glass by Stewart

Hearn and Rachel Woodman. There will be

colourful graphic textiles by Alpha Mistry,

chandeliers by Bob Crooks and wooden

furniture by Jim Partridge, Olivier Drouillard

and Martin Grierson.

“We really want to show people that

there is another side to the word

“design”. It doesn’t always have to be

hard-edged and impersonal. It can

be handmade with you in mind,”

enthuses Ting.

“People forget that craft is

contemporary, often more so than

mass manufacture. In fact

production work often takes ideas

from craft somewhere down the

line. We want to show people how

to live with contemporary craft, the

functional and the more challenging,

because we believe it is the way to live.”

■ Hue, Line and Form is at Contemporary

Applied Arts, Percy Street W1. Part One

runs from 5-30 September, Part Two from

5 October to 3 November.

Colour is a

strong theme.

Katie Walker designed

this ribbon rocking

chair (£5,495). Below is

an Aesculus gold-over￾orange bowl (from

£2,220) by Gillies Jones

HUE, LINE AND FORM

until 30 September