Jørgen Gammelgaard (1938–1991) was a Danish furniture designer who also designed lamps and silverware.
Early life
Gammelgaard was trained as a cabinetmaker at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts and served an apprenticeship (1957) at C. B. Hansen's workshop in Copenhagen. He then studied under
Grete Jalk. He was a visiting student of furniture design at the
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
(1962–1964) working under
Poul Kjærholm and
Ole Wanscher.
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Career
Gammelgaard worked as a cabinetmaker with
A. J. Iversen (1957–1959) and, after studying at the Academy, in
Arne Jacobsen's studio (1968–1969). While working with
Mogens Koch
Mogens Koch (2 March 1898 – 16 September 1992) was a Danish architect and furniture designer and, from 1950 to 1968, a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Early life and education
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,
Steen Eiler Rasmussen and
Jørgen Bo, he undertook consultancy work for the UN in
Samoa, where he designed his famous Tip-Top lampshade, followed later by work in Ceylon and the Sudan. In 1973, he established his own business. In 1987, when he was only 49, he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy's Department of Furniture and Spatial Art.
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His notable designs range from silverware for Georg Jensen to fixtures for the Copenhangen University's Life Sciences department and for Rødovre Library as well as the Tip-Top and VIP lamp series. His simple but refined furniture, mostly in natural materials and stainless steel, includes a folding stool for Design Forum, a crest rail chair and steel tube chair for Collection Schiang and the EJ20 sofa for Erik Jørgensen.[ Both his Crestrail chairs, with their semicircular back, and the Skagen Chair, developed with ]Børge Schiang
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Persons with the given name Børge
*Børge Brende (born 1965), minister in the Norwegian government
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Awards
Jørgen Gammelgaard was the first designer to receive the annual awards from both the Danish Design Council (1986) and The Council for Arts and Crafts (1991).
See also
* Danish modern
* Danish design
References
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Danish furniture designers
1938 births
1991 deaths
Designers from Copenhagen
Danish modern
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni