Monday, February 4, 2008

They're quite the innovators...

With Design being one of Denmark's biggest exports, a trip to the Danish Design Center was needed!


Taking Danish design a step further, they are well-known for their furniture and chair design, which makes sense--they are from the same region as the creators of IKEA. I don't know how stable I'd feel sitting in this chair.


A cool light fixture...


And yet another chair! The museum was full of them on their main floor.


I thought it was only fitting to get a picture of the windmill seeing as Denmark uses a lot of wind turbines for its energy.


A wee little expandable bike...


And a GIANT rollerblade!


I'm still trying to figure out everything this exhibit was trying to get across...I think it represents an urge toward simplicity? It had a bunch of homogenous containers with labels on them saying things like "Clean Oxygen" and "Holistic Thinking," among others. I could be way off though, analyzing design is not my strongest point.



And after a long hour and a half we just had to take a break on these funky chairs :) We


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