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(from
a Swedish perspective), he is one of the great unsung
designers of unsung mass-produced goods, from candle
holders to chairs, stocked by a not so unsung furniture
retailer. Just the person, then, for a maker of
common-or-garden products from the Weser Hills to
be getting in touch with.
We
were admittedly a bit perplexed when, at our meeting
on a fine midsummer’s day in Stockholm, he
whipped out a shoe box whose contents
stones, bones and bits of all sorts of roots that
he had picked up during his mountain walk –
he proceeded to tip out onto the table in front
of us. "That’s how plain and simple my
door handle ought to look," was his plain and
simple explanation.
We must have looked somewhat aghast. But Thomas
Sandell quickly managed to put us at our ease again.
In addition to the bits and bobs he had brought,
he also handed us some sketches and sent us to Stockholm’s
Arts & Crafts Museum, where some of his masterpieces
were currently on display.
Oh
yes, and he also asked us to turn one or two of
his sketches into handles. The upshot was a design
devoid of theoretical trappings whose plainness
simply asks to be taken hold of.
Typically
Nordic? Without a doubt. It’s the plain simplicity
of Nordic design, after all, that has been thrilling
us over and over again for decades.
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