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• Dansk & Quistgaard, Teak Salt & Peppers

  Rare thrift find – Dansk mill

  01.12.13 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I love going to thrift stores. You never know what you might find. I’ve found lots or random Dansk, Heath, Krenit, many other vintage pieces, and a guitar amp. I’ve been able to sell and enjoy much of what I’ve purchased. But nothing that’s blown my mind. And this is exactly what happened with teakpepper.com [...]

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  Dansk in modern marketing

  01.07.13 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I got home today to a new DWR and CB2 catalog.  Great day – my house is still somewhat new so I’m always on the lookout for the right furniture. Right there on the cover of DWR – to follow up last month’s amazing station wagon – was a smooth flamestone coffee cup.  The same [...]

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  Dansk in Dwell

  08.29.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  The cover story of the most recent issue of Dwell Magazine is a profile of Toronto collector Dr. Kenneth Montague. It has some great photos of his penthouse, which features an amazing roof deck, a series of Calder prints, and – yes – Dansk teak. The photos feature many Dansk pieces, including a glimpse of a [...]

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  Unusual Mark on Bowl

  04.01.12 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I found this vintage Quistgaard bowl at a local shop and it has a somewhat unusual mark.  Not sure if I’ve seen the bowl before, or if I have seen this mark before. Let me know in the comments if I’m just crazy after seeing too many teak bowls.    

• Dansk & Quistgaard, design

  Cool Woodturning Book

  07.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  I found this cool book about woodturning.  The cover features a rare piece by Jens Quistgaard, abstracted shapes, and simple Helvetica type. It was published in 1970. The book features a few more Dansk pieces inside and has a ton of information on how to make just about anything on a lathe. There’s a few [...]

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  Quistgaard Stokke Chair Reissue

  06.12.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Danish company Gubi is reissuing the Jens Quistgaard designed Stokke Chair.  This is a very nice chair that was originally produced in 1965 by Nissen. The original used teak or rosewood and had multiple different leather options.  The modern reissue uses black stained oak and black leather. This is a unique chair design because [...]

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  Quistgaard Designed Home on the Market

  05.23.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  As everyone who has seen the Jens Quistgaard documentary knows, JHQ designed an entire house for Dansk co-founder Ted Nierenberg and his wife Martha. The upstate NY home is an amazing structure in a dramatic location – and it is now on the market. Neierenberg passed away about a year ago, and apparently his family [...]

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  Quistgaard feature in Modernism Magazine

  03.22.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is a very long and detailed article about Jens Quistgaard in the Spring 2011 issue of Modernism Magazine. Written by Stig Guldberg – filmmaker of the “Saucepan for my Wife” documentary – the article is filled with information about Jens Quistgaard’s life and his design work. I have a subscription and just got the [...]

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  Benny’s Antik Store

  01.01.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  My New Years Resolution is to finish writing about the trip we took several months ago, so I’d better get on with it… If you’ve seen the “Saucepan” documentary on Jens Quistgaard, you saw Benny’s antique store. After seeing the rooms full of JHQ’s designs, I had to visit it, so Henriette was nice enough [...]

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  Strandgaarden Visit: The Workshop

  12.29.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The room I was most looking forward to was visiting during our Danish adventure to Jens Quistgaard’s home was his workshop.  I had seen photos of the space, and it was featured in the “Saucepan” documentary. Although he wasn’t working at this house during his most productive period at the beginning of the Dansk line, [...]

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Teak Pepper is the blog of Mark Perlson, author of Danish Pepper. It is focused on collecting Jens Quistgaard and Dansk, but also covers design, politics, music, media, and other topics.

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