Edvard Kindt Larsen (1901 – 1982) Danish Architect Designer

Danish architect and furniture designer Edvard Kindt-Larsen (1901–1982) collaborated frequently with his wife Tove Kindt-Larsen (1906–1994). The couple worked in the fields of architecture, furniture design, silverware design, and textiles from the 1930s to the 1960s, ranking among Denmark’s leading designers.

Education

Kindt-Larsen and his wife Tove, whom he married in 1937, worked together to achieve a great deal of success. At the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1920s, both had studied under Kaare Klint. They demonstrated a strong sense of quality and appreciation for modern trends while working together.

Furniture

They specialised in furniture design and displayed their creations at the Cabinetmakers Guild’s yearly exhibitions, which Edvard oversaw from 1943 to 1966. They created fairly straightforward factory-produced pieces, but they also created more complex one-of-a-kind pieces. As evidenced by his furniture, where he frequently combined glossy painted surfaces with untreated wood or simply used several different types of wood for a given item, Kindt-Larsen was fascinated by the idea of contrasts.

Other areas of design

Additionally, the couple created silverware for A. Michelsen and home textiles for Gabriel in Fredericia. Georg Jensen reintroduced a silver bracelet that was created in 1952 as a watch in 1993. Additionally, Kindt-Larsen was an architect. His own residence in Klampenborg, which he designed, is particularly noteworthy (1949). In 1949, he received the Eckersberg Medal.

Sources

Byars, M., & Riley, T. (2004). The design encyclopedia. Laurence King Publishing. https://amzn.to/3ElmSlL

Wikipedia contributors. (2021, June 23). Edvard Kindt-Larsen. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:43, July 29, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edvard_Kindt-Larsen&oldid=1029945135

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