Designed by Bodil Kjaer, this 1960s oak, palisander and steel ‘executive desk’ offered at Chiswick Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) is a classic example of the huge influence of Scandinavian architects on Western post-war design.
Kjaer, who was born in Jutland in 1932 and has offices in London and Copenhagen, was working in the USA in the late ‘50s and ‘60s where, she says, she ‘‘ran into problems of finding furniture that would express the same form-ideas as those we employed in the buildings we designed”.
She began making her reputation as a furniture designer, including this desk produced from 1960-69 by Danish manufacturer E Pederson & Son.