A piece of furniture should be looked at through your fingers

Christian Holmsted Olesen, the Head of Exhibitions and Collections, has this to say about the exhibit:

“Everyone with a passion and understanding for woodworking knows that the best way to sense and understand a piece of furniture is by looking at it through your fingers. In this exhibit, the public has a chance to get close to works made by Denmark’s most talented woodworkers. You can touch them and expand them, which is unusual for a museum exhibit. Designmuseum Danmark has always made it a priority to share knowledge about good craftsmanship, and since interest in craftsmanship is now higher than it’s been for many decades, we think this exhibit comes at the right time.”

The Cabinet Maker’s dogma

Finn Killbuck, the head of the Danish Cabinet Maker’s Association, says:

“We worked with some of the dogmas that are part of the cabinetmaker’s trade history. We want to show off wood, it’s finish, its surface and the way it can be worked with on a purely craft basis that is the core of our trade. Everything we do is inspired by the material.”

For the exhibit, Killbuck himself created an interactive scent cube.

Slowing down the tempo

Cabinetmaker Teis Dich Abrahamsen discusses the thoughts behind the exhibit:

“The idea is that as a museum guest, you should slow down your tempo a bit when you enter the exhibition. You need to get close up to the wooden cubes and feel the passion in them, the many hours of love, blood, sweat, and tears put into each individual work.”

The exhibit can be experienced through 14 May 2017.