A large collection of furniture including; Gilbert Rohde, Paul Frankel and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Many of the decorative furniture styles are completely influenced by the Danish Modern.
The Danish aesthetic for furniture design, long recognized as perhaps the finest in the world, flowered into its greatest wooden and metallic forms during the period of post-war modern architecture between 1950-1970. This period in design presents a timeless quality, an eternal celebration of the craftsman’s mastery of his material. Have there ever been greater masters of woodcraft then the Scandinavian peoples? Combined with the elegant simplicity of the Japanese and Bauhaus schools of architecture, the furniture evokes a nostalgia for the domestic traditions of the ancient world and yet it does not dwell in the past, it uses its modern material form to transport its patron into an optimistic, ever transcending future. As the Danish father of Existential philosophy, Soren Kierkegaard, once remarked: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” This is instilled into the Danish mind and heart. The Danish artist is a master with his hands because he knows the material he uses is the material from which he came and whence he goes back. Modernist furniture modelled itself after Danish Modern style started in the 1920s.
