{"id":816,"date":"2011-01-01T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/?p=816"},"modified":"2011-01-01T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:05:57","slug":"bennys-antik-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/2011\/01\/01\/bennys-antik-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny’s Antik Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

My New Years Resolution is to finish writing about the trip we took several months ago, so I’d better get on with it…<\/p>\n

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 to drive us to Praesto where the shop is. So, after saying farewell to Strandgaarden we took a short beautiful drive through the Danish countryside. We ended up in Praesto, a beautiful little town on a Danish fjord by the sea. It was so quaint and typically Danish, it felt like we were in a storybook. \u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

Here’s the outside of the shop. \u00a0It is in an old house from the late 1800s and it is an amazing place. Chock full of traditional Danish antiques (like Royal Copenhagen china and the like) plus a whole different area for mid-century Danish design, with a focus on Quistgaard.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here’s a photo of Benny and some of his wares. Benny was quite an interesting guy. He was the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He was trained as a master cabinet maker as a young man, and eventually became a representative for Dansk, traveling all over Europe promoting JHQ’s wares. He became friends with JHQ, and has a ton of information on him and his work. He lives in a beautiful home behind the shop which he himself lovingly restored.<\/p>\n

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A view from the “Quistgaard” room into the rest of his modern wares. There was a ton of work by just about every Danish designer you could think of.<\/p>\n

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A lot of nice pieces, including pepper mills and flatware are found in the window. The Dansk pieces – because they were primarily sold in the US – are pretty rare in Denmark and are thus pretty expensive. Stuff that was commonly sold in Denmark is more reasonably priced, about what you’d find on eBay although there are some good deals to be had – I’ll post about my finds later.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of the enamel – both Kobenstyle and Ankerline – pieces at Benny’s shop.<\/p>\n

After having a nice cup of tea with Benny, we said goodbye to Henriette at the train station and headed back to Copenhagen to with Stig to continue the rest of the journey. \u00a0What a great visit!<\/p>\n

You can find out more about Benny’s shop at the official Praesto Antik website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danskquistgaard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}