// How Gry Holmskov Creates

Last post we looked to the past and celebrated Nanna Ditzel as a design dame and all round inspiration. But what about the here and now? Who are the designers of the moment and what is inspiring them to create? This lead us to want to take a closer look at the brains behind some new pieces in our showrooms...

It's no secret we have fallen in love with our new Angel Stools, they are simple elegant and playful.
Their organic lines recalling natural forms serve as a reminder to slow down and take a seat, to just breathe and observe. Come late afternoon the stools play with soft sunshine and the shadows they cast are divine to say the least. Here they are in our on their first day in the office at around home-o'clock:

This wondrous stool's designer is Gry Holmskov who like her idols Hans Wegner and Finn Juhl, is a trained architect and furniture designer. Not content with merely aesthetically pleasing objects she is inspired by the whole lifecycle of a product. She is constantly spurred on by nature and the small details in life.

After sending her a short email asking her about her creative process Gry quickly responded with a plethora of images. This is one seriously inspired young designer! We felt instantly transported into her creative and bubbling mind. Her designs make all the more sense while flicking through these; the images she has curated are genuine and appreciative of the natural world, of all the little things and show her hard work!

 Jump into Gry's creative utopia for the next few minutes, we hope it will inspire you as it has us.

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What a talent.

Thank you Gry.

WEBSITE - Gry Holmskov

ANGEL STOOLS, NEW @GREAT DANE 

Copenhagen Buying Trip - August 2007

Day 3 of buying trip, jet lag kicking in nicely. On the way to breakfast we bumped into Lars, a dealer I hadn't seen for a year.

Lars mentioned he thought he had a Finn Juhl sofa the Poet, which I have dreamed about finding.

In his truck & off to his warehouse, we literally hopped over the top of a room full of furniture and dropped down between a couple of sofas trying to work out if one of them was the Poet. Had a look at the sofa and found the legs weren’t exactly right, so I got down on the ground and took a closer look and decided it was a early copy, still a great little sofa but no Finn Juhl.

I did find some easy chairs for a Brisbane client, 4 of the Hans Wegner Paddle arm chairs by Getama, perfect, exactly what they wanted, and a stunning old leather sofa, more 30’s /40’s style that I have found once before, fantastic quality with a great patina.