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Aschehoug, Copenhagen. Published date: 2006. Hardcover, 84 pp; 23 x 22 cm. Illustrated throughout with numerous color and black and white photographs, architectural drawings, product designs, and documentary images.
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In very good condition/no dust jacket. Pictorial boards show light bumping to edges and corners with mild surface scuffing and handling wear; binding firm. Previous owner's inscription in ink on the front endpaper; interior pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Monograph on Danish industrial designer Knud Holscher (born 1930), written by architectural historian Christoffer Harlang of the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture. Surveys Holscher's career and design philosophy, examining his work within the tradition of twentieth century Scandinavian modernism and the influence of figures such as Arne Jacobsen and the Bauhaus movement. Holscher's projects range widely across architecture, product design, transportation design, and public infrastructure, including university buildings, civic architecture, furniture, cookware, tableware, eyewear frames, and urban elements such as bus stop shelters and motorway furniture. Contents include: Knud Holscher - System and Corpus; Beginning; Education; Employment; Breakthrough; Structure and Form; Principles of Form; System and Corpus; System; The Bauhaus and Ulm School; Corpus; Approach; Connection; Selected Works; St. Catherine's College; Odense University; Own House; Bahrain Civic Centre; d line; Georg Jensen Tableware; Scanwood Tableware; Ifo Aqua and Ceranova; Coloplast Assura; ERCO Quinta; Pictform; Motorway Accoutrements and Street Furniture; Metro Totem; HT Bus Stop Shelter; Wood Burning Stove; Baby Pram; Facit IO; Armchair; Watercolours; Notes; Photographs; Bibliography; Index.
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