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...Salto, who has won five design awards for his chair, says his initial training as a cabinetmaker rather than a designer has a lot to do with the success of his projects. "It would be much easier in plastic, but plastic is not a typical Danish material," he says. "I have my roots in the Danish tradition of wooden furniture. It's a bigger challenge to me." So Salto made a prototype chair in the woodshop, then produced a design from which it could be manufactured...
...design and production of furniture with beautifully clean lines that is devoid of decoration and some-times uncomfortably utilitarian. Salto calls it the "less is more" approach that was championed by the Bauhaus school of architects in Germany in the 1920s. According to Erik Krogh, a professor at the Danish School of Design, Danish furniture emerged thanks to the innovative work of Kaare Klint, a cabinetmaker who started putting Danish furniture on display at world exhibitions. "Up to my generation, we trained as cabinetmakers, and the attitude of a craftsman is important," Krogh says. "We have a close relationship with...
...army chief of staff General Shaul Mofaz and air force commander General Dan Halutz over actions taken in the course of the current intifada. And the appointment as ambassador to Denmark of the former head of Israel's Shin Bet security police, Carmi Gillon, may be in jeopardy after Danish justice minister Frank Jensen warned that Mr. Gillon could be charged under the U.N. convention against torture as soon as he lands in Denmark. In an interview with a Danish newspaper, Gillon had admitted that under his leadership, the Shin Bet had used "moderate physical pressure" against Palestinian detainees. Although...
...black-masked contingent that began pelting police during the Goteborg street rally on June 15. Last week six Swedes went on trial for violent rioting and attempting to seriously injure a policeman. "What happened was not a spontaneous outburst of violence," Landahl says. "It was planned." Five more suspected Danish AFA activists were arrested before the summit began, after a police raid of their apartment turned up explosives and cans of acid. Genoese intelligence experts are monitoring an AFA website that details some protest plans for Genoa--where AFA's activities will mostly be carried out by members from Spain...
Some of it, though, is coming back. Big Danish firms such as Vestas are building turbine factories in the U.S. The two largest solar-device manufacturers on American soil are British-owned BP Solar and German-owned Siemens. Ownership may be foreign, but American workers benefit...