Below you can find pictures I captured at my recent trip to the fair QUBIQUE in Berlin. The fair is held at the closed airport Tempelhof.  [Læs mere...]

Series 7 re-launch in Nicolai Bergmans Flower shop, Tokyo. 9 kinds of veneer and 9 new lacquered colors launced in a beautiful setting.  [Læs mere...]

Fritz Hansen and WE-ARE-FAMILIA (a global network of creative individuals from all disciplines) are pleased to announce KIN CODA, an exhibition of the completion of one-of-a-kind Keepsake Boxes, a project that first originated in 2007. The entire series consists of 25 unique Keepsake Boxes, each showcasing approximately 40 original “mementos”, or artworks, contributed by the WE-ARE-FAMILIA family of artists. Each  [Læs mere...]

This week Fritz Hansen is having the second in-house workshop. The topic is upholstery with leather waste, based on the shape of the Oxford chair. The participants are students from different architecture and design schools in Denmark. Workshop pictures from day 2... Workshop pictures from day 3...    [Læs mere...]

Just last week we opened a new exhibition in our Copenhagen Showroom. Students from Kolding School of Design have all worked with the theme of Parasite Design to work with, challenge and adapt the Series 7 chair designed by Arne Jacobsen. About the project: The host is the Series 7 Chair, and the parasites are the student designs. A parasite  [Læs mere...]

We have joined forces with Skandium, London's much-loved Scandinavian design emporium, to launch the first Republic of Fritz Hansen™ store in the UK – during the London Design Festival (17-25 September 2011). Our new Republic of Fritz Hansen flagship store will be in the heart of London’s Fitzrovia district, and will uniquely showcase the entire collection of designs alongside a  [Læs mere...]

Every year The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and DIS - Architecture & Design hosts a seven week long summer program called "Furniture Design in Scandinavia" for foreign students wanting to learn more about Scandinavian design culture and furniture design. Most of the students attending are from universities or design schools in USA, but the courses  [Læs mere...]

New York, New York - This October 2011, our dealer SUITE New York will launch The Pink Swan Project to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Nineteen leading interior designers, architects and fashion icons have customized a white Arne Jacobsen’s iconic Swan chair donated by Fritz Hansen paying a personal tribute to BCRF and their worldwide initiatives. Alexandra Von  [Læs mere...]

Last month, Fritz Hansen introduced the new FAVN™ Sofa designed by Jaime Hayon to the North American Market in New York. A reception was held at the Fritz Hansen NY Showroom in May during the ICFF fair and the outcome was overwhelmingly positive. We celebrated the latest in Fritz Hansen design with our closest friends, colleagues, designers and architects. Christian  [Læs mere...]

On Thursday, 9 June, Designer Kasper Salto and architect Thomas Sigsgaard were announced as the winners of the design competition to design new furniture for the UN Headquarters in New York. The competition was held by the Danish Arts Foundation. The other participants were Christian Flindt, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen, Mia Gammelgaard and Søren Ulrik Petersen. Mogens A. Morgen, chairman of  [Læs mere...]