On our last day in Copenhagen we went to the Designmuseum Dänemark. Going to a museum on a rainy day wasn’t quite the relief from the weather that I expected. Like so many places in Scandinavia, there was no air conditioning. In fact, the windows were open, letting in the humidity, and the rooms were filled with damp people. Instead of conditioning all the air, they just put sensitive displays in cases. Good for the environment and their electric bill, not so good for me!
The exhibits started with a modern inventor, Anders Hermansen. His design process often starts with making concept models from wire.
An exhibit on modern fabric printing was fascinating. We’d never really thought much about how this is done. I left the exhibit thinking I should go home and try to block print fabric myself!
They took the next step, too, and showed how patterns are incorporated into dresses. This part did NOT make me feel like going home and taking up dressmaking!
The one on the left reminds me of John Singer Sargent; the one on the right, the musical Hamilton.
They had exhibits of things I didn’t even know people collected – such as Japanese samurai sword guards. And things I did know were collected – such as snuff boxes – including some risqué ones:
And there were random things, like this “necessaire” for a gentlewoman two hundred years ago. It had everything she needed, at home or on travel. Who knew she would need so many different pairs of scissors?
M was enamored with this mirror box, which lets you see yourself from all angles. Given how often I forget to check if the hair on the back of my head is behaving, I should have one of these! (But first I’d have to remember to sit in it…)
It’s not often we see something in a museum that we already own. But there was the reusable folding cup M bought on our bike trip in Tromsø!
Who doesn’t like tableware with attitude?
What we both liked the best were the chairs. So many chairs! And a quote that explains why so many are uncomfortable!
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