Danish Design at the Millennium: Five exhibitions, Five essays (Christian Ejlers Publishers 1997) documents Danish design showcased during the 1996 Cultural Capital of Copenhagen.
In 1996 Copenhagen was Cultural Capital of the year. This event formed the setting for five exhibitions of applied art and design where the best people in the field had the opportunity to take stock and show what they were capable of on the threshold of the millennium. The initiative cor the exhibitions came from Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation of 1968 – and was followed up by the necessary financial support. This book documents these exhibitions and thus provides an up-to-date, broad, unique overview of Danish design. It also documents the European background against which Danish designers and craft artists express themselves. one of the big exhibitions, Design and Identity, showed brand new, superb examples from countries abroad all the way from Russia through Germany and France to Italy and Spain. The other exhibitions showed Danish design at the millennium grouped into Unika, Duplika (utility art), graphic design (Visuellerhvad?) and industrial design (Man, Water and Design). The exhibitions and the many objects shown were photographed by Aage Lund Jensen and Jens Frederiksen. Their pictures are a bearing element in this book, and are all reproduced in colour.
– Arne Karlsen (ed.) Danish Design at the Millennium: Five exhibitions, Five essays (Christian Ejlers Publishers, 1997), book description
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with exhibition photographs.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings except for the previous owner’s small signature on the first flyleaf. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows only some minor traces of shelf wear.
