Christmas was spent small fishers' hamlet Segelstorps strand, Skåne, Sweden, where in 1947 the 38-year old Danish arhitect and designer Erik Herløw, three years out of Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie and two years after staring his own firm, drew this summerhouse for clothing-magnate Harald Schlasberg.
Pictures by yours truly.
Erik Herløw went on to be a successful industrial designer, working for Georg Jensen, Royal Copenhagen, Dansk Aluminium Industri among others, being a founding member of Selskabet for Industriel Formgivning (the Danish Societ for Industrial Design) and becoming a proffessor in industrial design at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie between 1959 to 1979. He was also one in a long line of great designers to have worked for SAS, having designed the interior of the A-300 Airbus planes at the end of the 70's.
Today his most widely available design is the stainless steel flatware series Obelisk for Hackman.
Today his most widely available design is the stainless steel flatware series Obelisk for Hackman.
