Hugo is a design critic, curator and the co-founder of Bard, a gallery in Edinburgh dedicated to Scottish design and craft. A long-serving member of the Wallpaper* family, he has also been the design editor at Monocle and the brand director at Studioilse, Ilse Crawford's multi-faceted design studio.
As reissue stories go, the ‘Spherical’ bed is an award-winning fairy tale of design, because it celebrates both the past and the future in one fell swoop. Originally designed by Kaare Klint, the single bed was presented in 1938 at the Danish Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition as part of Klint’s showcase, titled ‘A Lady’s Boudoir’. The show attracted criticism that making furniture for a woman living alone was profligate.
With its curved ends, the bed has a cocooning cosiness to it. Such was the complexity of its construction that it proved near-impossible for the still-evolving, machine-led production. Fast forward to the introduction in 2019 of Carl Hansen & Søn’s apprentice programme The Lab, in which the Danish brand mentors 18 trainees, divided into traditional and machine cabinetmakers.
‘We asked permission from Klint’s family to turn the single bed into a double,’ says Jeppe Ravn Frederiksen, who heads up The Lab. ‘When we input Klint’s drawings into our 3D-modelling software, it came to life perfectly.’ Each bed takes four people around ten weeks to make. All the wood comes from a single tree, and only six beds can be made each year. ‘Such a creation does not suit high-volume production, but it’s perfect for education and training within a small workshop.
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