We caught up with Danish architect and designer Hans Bølling at his Charlottelund studio to talk learning, love and design
We caught up with Danish architect and designer Hans Bølling at his Charlottelund studio to talk learning, love and design
‘I always say my career has been spent playing, not working,’ says Bølling. ‘I can’t sit still. I love to fiddle around with things and experiment. I can’t help myself: I’ll wake in the middle of the night with an idea and run to sketch it down. It never stops being fun!’ Though Bølling’s animals found quick success in the 1950s and 1960s , only a handful of his furniture pieces made it to market, not least because he didn’t pursue production outlets for most of his ideas. His daughter, Anne-Mette Bølling, also an architect, notes that the sketch for one of her father’s designs recently put into production was, for the last 50 years, stowed away in a plastic bag in the family bike shed.
‘I don’t think I ever felt a tie to them, they were all very clever. They never made a bird, though, they never fooled around – they were so focused on building something,’ he says. ‘But I never felt overlooked; I always got to do what I wanted. Perhaps I was a bit of an outsider because I was just running around, having a good time, never worrying about anything much at all.’
Interest in Bølling’s work is still going strong, as he becomes part of the reissue trend. In 2017, Brdr Krüger took its longstanding relationship with Bølling a step further and introduced his ‘Triiio’ table series – which comes in coffee, side and dining sizes – for the first time. Featuring a playfully abstract three-legged wooden base and a glass top, the table, originally designed in 1958, found an eager audience.
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