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Off Duty
Our Q-Line field surgical lamp was featured in the Wall Street Journal's Off Duty section in a feature on military chic. See it here:
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Manitoga
Take a look at Manitoga, the home of the designer Russel Wright. The house is decades old but you can see ideas that are still in full force today - especially that green roof. And take a look at our Conant Ball coffee table by Russel Wright!
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Sergio Rodrigues in His Studio
Take a look at this post on the Selby showcasing Sergio Rodrigues in his São Paulo studio - including sketches and models of the Sheriff chair we have here at the Good Mod!
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Hans J. Wegner
The works of Danish born architect and furniture designer, Hans Jørgen Wegner, exhibit a love of natural materials and a studied understanding of the necessity of furniture as a marriage of function and beauty.
In his youth, Wegner developed an affinity for the material properties of wood, working as an apprentice to respected cabinetmaker H.F. Stahlberg. This experience instilled in Wegner an understanding of the tectonics and craft of traditional Danish carpentry. This understanding of workmanship was supplement with a formal design education when Wegner entered the Copenhagen School of Arts & Crafts in his early twenties. After receiving his architectural degree in 1938 he began working with renown Danish designers Arne Jacobsen and Erick Møller before establishing his own practice in 1943.
Throughout his career Hans Wegner was responsible for over 500 unique chair designs, making him the most prolific Danish designer to date. Perhaps his most well known design, the Round Chair, gained international notoriety in 1949 when Interiors magazine declared it “the world’s most beautiful chair”. The beauty of Wegner’s genius is seen in his designs as the manifestation of a remarkable combination of designer and craftsmen.