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Article: Per H. Hansen. Da danske mobler blev moderne: Historien om dansk mobeldesigns storhedstid.(Book review)
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- Scandinavian Studies
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- March 22, 2009
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Per H. Hansen. Da danske mobler blev moderne: Historien om dansk mobeldesigns storhedstid. Copenhagen and O dense: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag and Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2006. Pp. 64-4.
In the world of industrial design, the fascination with all things mid-twentieth-century remains firmly intact. The furniture designs of Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, Herman Miller, and Charles and Ray Earnes are now marketed as iconic classics. The television series Mad Men, with its exacting attention to every detail of clothing, hairstyles and furnishings, proffers a picture-perfect encapsulation of life in the advertising world in 1960, a time when the product had become the ...