Phone:
(+45) 3527 7646
E-mail: niels.hvass@dkds.dk
Attached to
Department of Research and Artistic Practice
Functions
Artistic Practice
Teaching
Supervision
Projects
My artistic practice is placed within in Danmarks Designskole's focus on Materials and Interaction. To be more specific, my work is concerned with furniture design and its related fields.
In my work I have a strong emphasis on the material. My point of departure is plastic form and the possibilities of using various kinds of fibres and related materials in designing furniture. Furthermore, I work with design at an international level where I am concerned with issues of how to unite methodology, material development, production and business collaboration as part of designs artistic expression.
Short Resume
2004- Danmarks Designskole
1996-2004 Teacher at the Department of Product Design, Danmarks Designskole
1991 Co-founder of the design collaboration OCTO
1990 Founder of independent design business STRAND+HVASS,
1989 Industrial Designer, Peter Bysted, Industriel Design
1988 Industrial Designer, Knud Holscher Industriel Design
1987 Industrial Designer, Eleven Danes
1987 Furniture Designer MAA, Danmarks Designskole
Selected Productions
2004 100 % handmade (chair made out of fibre; prototype)
1995-1996 Wave, Flight and Loop (experiments in aluminium; produced by Källemp AB, Sweden)
1994 Yesterday's paper (chair made of newspaper; own production)
1993 Chair made of willow twig in collaboration with the textile designer A.F. Møller (own production)
