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  DWR Design Blog on JHQ

  02.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Check out the nice DWR Design Blog post on Jens Quistgaard.  It was written by one of the account executives at the Potrero Studio, where they will be showing the recently completed Quistgaard documentary.
  Come see the free screening – this Thursday 2/11/21010 – at the Potrero Studio in scenic (and currently sunny) San Francisco.

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  Jens Quistgaard Documentary – Free event at Design Within Reach Potrero Studio San Francisco

  01.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am pleased to officially announce a special event at the Design Within Reach Potrero Studio in San Francisco.
  A free showing of the new documentary film:
  The Designer Jens Quistgaard:
  A Saucepan for my Wife
  The filmmaker Stig Guldberg will be attending the event and hosting a short Q&A session after the film.  There will be an exhibition [...]

• Dansk & Quistgaard, Teak Salt & Peppers

  Visit to Sam Kaufman Gallery

  01.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Any serious Dansk collector should include a trip to the Sam Kaufman Gallery as part of a trip to the Los Angeles area.  I had the pleasure of visiting him and his gallery over the winter break on a road trip down to Southern California.
  First of all, the collection.  If both of my cameras hadn’t [...]

• Dansk & Quistgaard, Teak Salt & Peppers

  Merry teak-mas!

  12.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have a great holiday!
  Photo by fellow collector Wayne C.

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  Jens Quistgaard Documentary

  12.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am pleased to be spreading the word for the first documentary about Jens Quistgaard.  It is called Jens Quistgaard: A Saucepan for my Wife and it is set to be released early in 2010.  Created by Danish filmmaker Stig Guldberg, it is a facinating peek into the facinating life of JHQ.  It is a [...]

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  Quistgaard on the block

  10.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  There were a few auctions at the major auction houses with Quistgaard pieces last month.
  At the September Modern auction at Rago Arts, a pair of cast iron candlesticks sold for $793, well above the $400 – $600 estimate.  This is a very tall piece, almost 18″, and one of the rarer pieces in Jens Quistgaard’s [...]

• Dansk & Quistgaard

  Double decker salad bowl

  10.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Seen at Monument on Valencia here in San Francisco is this rare double decker salad bowl. It’s really two salad bowls put together like a hamburger bun. There’s interlocking lips on the edges of the two so it is clear this is how it’s supposed to work. I’m not quite sure of the [...]

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  Vintage Life Magazine Treasure Trove

  09.29.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I think this is a recent development, but Google Books has made EVERY back issue of Life Magainze available online.  This is an incredible resource.  The articles!  The photos!  The ads!  Frankly, I’m mostly into the ads.  So full of classic vintage products, great typography, and the un-PC charm of early marketing.   I love [...]

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  Ted Nierenberg, Founder of Dansk, Died

  08.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ted Nierenberg died last Friday at the age of 86, according to the New York Times, who published a very nice obituary in today’s paper.  Nierenberg should be credited with the inspiration and ingenuity to bring Jens Quistgaard’s designs to life as mass produced goods.  His legacy as a visionary, salesman, and businessman – especially [...]

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  The Wheeler Dansk Collection

  06.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I found this great photo on the Mint Design Blog of Dan Wheeler’s collection of Dansk pitchers and teak bowls.  Really cool.  The article mentions a collection of pepper mills, but no photo unfortunately.

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