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The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition: Light & Form
88 designers, architects and manufacturers push the boundaries of furniture design, this year exploring how light meets material and form.
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The theme comes from the walls next door. The Impressionists in Ordrupgaard's collection made the changeability of light their central motif, and the museum says the same fascination recurs in Finn Juhl's House and in the Art Park. This year's Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition borrows it.
Forty designers, architects and manufacturers take part, and their pieces stand among the French Impressionists in Snøhetta's underground galleries. You find a bronze chair whose open grid throws sharp shadows, a mahogany cabinet painted inside with Vantablack, and lumps of mud rubbed with carnauba wax until they shine. In late November Copenhagen loses its daylight before four, so a show about light is a fair excuse to go.
Politiken's Lars Hedebo Olsen called it one of the best editions of the show, with work so resolved he could happily come back to see it all again. Tickets are 140 kr and under-18s go free. On Wednesdays it's open until 19:00, and free for students and under-27s from 16:00. It closes on 13 December.
Editor's pick
88 designers, architects and manufacturers show new furniture built around one theme, how light meets material and form, in Charlottenlund north of the city. A fitting subject for a Danish autumn, when light is in short supply.
Look for
Bronze X-stol, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen
Look for a heavy cast-bronze chair built from an open geometric net, which throws sharp grid shadows that change shape with the angle of the light.
Lyssky, Thomas Sigsgaard
A French-polished mahogany and brass cube whose inside is painted with Vantablack, which absorbs 99.5 per cent of the light, so the shady business stays in the dark.
ZERO, Jonas Trampedach and Viola Heyn-Johnsen
Upright fused glass tubes lit by LEDs, taking their triangles from the steel of Snøhetta's hall; grouped together, the clear glass shows itself through reflections and refractions.
INFINITY floor lamp, Boris Berlin
A loop of 3D-knitted fabric stretched on a thin aluminium frame and mirrored in its base, so the loop looks endless; it has no front or back.
The Candlelight Cabinet, Mia Lagerman
A small alabaster cabinet with a candle inside, made to show how light passes through the stone and its pattern once the candle is lit.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
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Image credits
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- The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition: Light & FormThomas Ibsen
- The Garbage Man – Thomas DamboPhoto: Anders Sune Berg / ARKEN
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- Camille Henrot, Paper PlanesPhoto: David Stjernholm / Copenhagen Contemporary
- Ordrupgaardjelm6 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0