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Poul Kjaerholm candleholder, model PK 101, ca. 1956 manufactured by Kold Christensen chrome-plate...

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Poul Kjaerholm candleholder, model PK 101, ca. 1956 manufactured by Kold Christensen chrome-plate...
Poul Kjaerholm
candleholder, model PK 101, ca. 1956
manufactured by Kold Christensen
chrome-plated steel
44 1/2 in. (113 cm) high
Estimate: $5,000-8,000 <p>LITERATURE
Christoffer Harlang, ed., Poul Kjaerholm, copenhagen, 1999, p. 176
<p>Poul KjErholm was the great purist of Danish Modernism. Born in 1929, he graduated in 1852 from the Copenhagen School of Arts & Crafts. He was educated in a design tradition shaped above all by Kaare Klint - a tradition of simplicity, functionalism, and humanism. From his first commercial project in 1952, he revealed his individuality, his distinctive interpretation of the Scandinavian Modern ideal, as he demonstrated the somewhat austere perfectionism that was to be the defining characteristic of his approach. Formed as an architect of interior spaces, KjErholm conceived furniture as the discreet responses to human needs, the discipline and sophisticated restraint of his designs providing the still counterpoints to the occupants of a space. In his ascetic view of design, a room should be free of furnishings that are not a necessary part of everyday life. There is nothing decorative in his approach. Yet his search for balance and quality, both of form and of materials and construction, is so exacting that he achieves a kind of poetry, the poetry of serene understatement. KjErholm worked closely with manufacturers Fritz Hansen and E. Kold Christensen to develop his designs for high- quality production. It was a production that balanced industrial manufacturing techniques with meticulous handcraft finish. His PK 1 chair, PK 101 candleholder, PK 111 screen, and PK 31-4 sofa well express, in a characteristic range of forms and materials, KjErholm's highly focused design objectives.
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