RIP - ARNE VODDER - THE BEST IN DANISH DESIGN - 1926 / 2009

Hi all I have just read that one of the Greatest Danish Designers has passed away on the December the 27th. He was Arne Vodder, a true innovator in his use of colour and a master cabinet maker if there ever was one. Rest in Peace your designs will live on forever.

Danish architect and designer Arne Vodder should be counted among the most influential Scandinavian mid-century designers. His beautiful designs were nicely detailed and modest in their expression, almost without exception based on natural materials. Rosewood and teak - according to the fashion at the time - seem to have been the preferred materials. Today, Vodder is perhaps most appreciated for his beautiful rosewood and teak sideboards designed in the 1950-1960's and produced by Sibast

ORLA STE-ELY

Ok I have to get this off my chest, am I the only one who thinks her designs are crap and its just the same pattern over and over and over again.. talk about overuse.

Also I think her furniture is a disgrace... she has no original ideas, just this one pattern.. all her furniture is rip offs of classically designed mid-century modern furniture, how she gets away with it I do not know why!!!..

for example: above is orla's sideboard.. below is the one of the daddy's of danis sideboard's by Arne Vodder

here's some more spot orla's and then the originals....