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...windows and create what the artist calls "a stage like setting on the street." The proceeds from sales of a limited number of the works along with Eliasson's fees for the project will be donated to 121Ethiopia, a charitable foundation established by the artist and his wife, Marianne Krogh Jensen, in Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Vuitton's New Project | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...world in the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Good Form Less Is More | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...sandwich of thin pieces glued together - that the British had developed for airplanes in response to a lack of aluminum. The result is shapes that can be twisted and turned like plastic and yet remain sturdy. "Danish designers try to make their ideas suitable for industrial production,'' says Krogh. "It's something to do with our mentality that we don't like to do things that are very ornate." Krogh claims his own first: he used what is called precompressed wood, a process invented in Denmark, to make strong, durable furniture with plenty of graceful curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Good Form Less Is More | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...According to Krogh, the Danish tradition of designers starting out as cabinetmakers has been going out of fashion recently. Now potential designers generally go directly from high school to design school, where they are taught basic concepts from the outset. "I still feel we are building on the cabinetmaker tradition, with a close relationship to the material," says Krogh. "We're also trying to find new expressions such as form and aesthetic aspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Good Form Less Is More | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

More broadly, Krogh accused Albright and her colleagues of conducting a policy based on scolding other nations. "They instruct the Russians and the Japanese on their economics, the Chinese on their politics, the Iraqis on their military, the Serbs on their provinces, the Latin Americans on drugs and the U.N. on reform...It is a foreign policy of sermons and sanctimony accompanied by the brandishing of Tomahawks." The article, which Krogh had passed around in advance to fellow members of the foreign policy elite, set Washington buzzing. Albright, brittle about her image, was furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine's War | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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