An excerpt from Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer.
in stock.) Curiously, Quistgaard as a brand of his own has stayed a little under the radar over the years — you don’t often hear his name mentioned alongside Eero Saarinen’s or Grete Jalk’s — and Stig Guldberg’s new book,Although Quistgaard designed mostly tableware and similar small objects, he did a couple of interiors — notably
Photo: Excerpted from JENS QUISTGAARD: THE SCULPTING DESIGNER© 2023 by Stig Guldberg. Reproduced by permission of Phaidon. All rights reserved. The interior took me by surprise. It seemed grander and more aristocratic than I had imagined, but the refined atmosphere was counterpointed by Quistgaard himself, who filled the room with unpretentious warmth and laughter. It was obvious that this was an artist’s home, a warm and unassuming setting for life. Case in point, to get to the beautifully laid-out dining table, one first had to stride over the vacuum cleaner, which had been parked absent-mindedly in the middle of the room.
Photo: Excerpted from JENS QUISTGAARD: THE SCULPTING DESIGNER© 2023 by Stig Guldberg. Reproduced by permission of Phaidon. All rights reserved.
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