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Kaare Klint (1888 - 1954)
Architecture | 15.12.2020

smow Blog Design Calendar: December 15th 1888 – Happy Birthday Kaare Klint!

"Only slowly does it dawn on people that modern furniture must be designed on the basis of practical necessities", observed the Danish architect and designer Kaare Klint in 1930.1 How Kaare Klint understood those "practical necessities", how he understood "modern furniture", would not only define his career, but in many regards define the development of 20th century furniture design in Denmark. Kaare Klint (1888 - 1954) Kaare Jensen Klint was born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, on December

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