Designer · Denmark · 1901–1982 / 1906–1994
Tove and Edvard Kindt-Larsen
Tove (1906–1994) and Edvard (1901–1982) Kindt-Larsen – Danish furniture and interior designers who exhibited with the Cabinetmakers' Guild in Copenhagen.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1901–1982 / 1906–1994
- Country
- Denmark
- Manufacturers
- France & Son
Edvard Kindt-Larsen (1901–1982) was an architect and a student of Kaare Klint in the furniture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Tove Kindt-Larsen (1906–1994) also studied at the Academy, although she did not obtain a diploma. Before their marriage in 1937, they won first prize in a competition organised by the Cabinetmakers' Guild (Snedkerlauget). Tove worked, among other things, on rattan designs and textiles.
From 1943 to 1966, Edvard organised the Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibitions in Copenhagen, for which he was awarded the Eckersberg Medal. In 1949, the couple built their own house in Klampenborg. At the Guild's 1953 exhibition, they presented a two-seater sofa and an armchair in Brazilian rosewood, made by the cabinetmaker Gustav Bertelsen – a reinterpretation of their 1938 chair. The set was described in the third volume of the publication “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, edited by Grete Jalk. One of the duo's best-known designs is the Pagode sofa.
The work of the Kindt-Larsens grew out of Klint's school, with its attention to proportions, cabinetmaking craftsmanship and fine timber. Their furniture forms part of Danish mid-century modernism; at MIDMOD, it appears as individual pieces from the secondary market.
