A Visit to the Home of Dansk’s Most Prolific Designer

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( Friday, March 10 books [A Visit to the Home of Dansk’s Most Prolific Designer]( An excerpt from Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer. Photo: Excerpted from JENS QUISTGAARD: THE SCULPTING DESIGNER© 2023 by Stig Guldberg. Reproduced by permission of Phaidon. All rights reserved. If you own a piece of tableware produced by Dansk, flip it over. There’s a high probability that, below the logo, there’s a small monogram reading “IHQ.” That’s designer Jens Harald Quistgaard — for decades, the most productive (though not the [only]() maker of Dansk’s accessible Scandinavian tableware and home furnishings. Starting with the “Fjord” cutlery pattern in 1953, his work was a major part of bringing European-style modernism into upscale American homes, and it has never really looked dated or gone out of style. (Food52, [which bought Dansk in 2021](, can barely keep its [reissues]( in stock.) Curiously, Quistgaard as a brand of his own has stayed a little under the radar over the years — you don’t often hear his name mentioned alongside Eero Saarinen’s or Grete Jalk’s — and Stig Guldberg’s new book, Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer, aims to bring him out from under the corporate shadow. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Elon Musk Is Building a Montessori The Boring Company’s Texas preschool will educate the children of the hard-core.]( By Alissa Walker [The New Taxi Commissioner Is Doing an Undercover-Boss Thing And if you manage to hail David Do, the ride is free.]( By Clio Chang [Donald Trump Wants to Build a City “Freedom Cities” and the rise of conspiracy urbanism.]( By Alissa Walker [‘Like College or Camp for Rich People’ The lifestyle managers hosting mezcal classes and meditation hour at the city’s amenity-packed bubble buildings.]( By Bridget Read [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-curbed?email={EMAIL}&hash=6c53b63a8e3fad70ad4ef13004527437¶m=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved