Desk designed by the famous architect and designer Bodil Kjaer. Model 901. Made of wenge wood with chrome-plated metal frame. Manufactured by E. Pedersen & Søn, Denmark, 1960s.
Dimensions: Width 184cm, Height 72cm, Depth 93cm
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Bodil Kjaer is a professor, architect & designer born in Denmark in 1932. She was educated in Denmark, England and the USA, and practised as an architect, designer and planner from her own offices in Copenhagen and London.
Between 1955-1963, while designing public interiors she developed a series of furniture designs to solve problems of functional and aesthetic nature. These pieces of furniture were not designed directly for production. They were put into production and marketed in the USA as well as in Europe, when other architects discovered them and wanted them for their buildings. Some of these pieces are still available, mostly at auctions.
Today, Bodil Kjaer has returned to Denmark, where she continues to teach, research and participate in the development of the city of Aarhus. She is being recognised above all for the series of office furniture she designed in the 1960s.
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This well known desk featured in the 1960s in the New York Times and The Sunday Times. It became even more famous when it appeared as James Bond’s desk in some his first films: “From Russia with love” & “You only live twice”. The desk also appeared prominently in BBC election broadcasts.