GROUNDBREAKING
DESIGN
As well as a wide range of other pieces, Komplot is the studio behind GUBI’s landmark 3D Chair. Launched in 2003, this groundbreaking design was the first to incorporate threedimensional veneer technology into its production. Paving the way for a wider family of sleek, innovative and versatile signature furniture, it has earned a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and won the Danish Design Prize (2004) and the Red Dot Award (2004).
INTERMEDIARY DESIGN
They describe design as an intermediary - a link between art and engineering, between manufacturing and the end user, between different cultures, between tradition and innovation, rationality and intuition, logic and emotion.
Bridging and balancing these tensions - combined with a sharp eye for the latest production techniques - has enabled them to both continue and renew Danish design traditions, while setting the pace for international developments.
The GUBI 3D Chair can be seen in use at the new World Trade Centre and MoMA’s ‘Café 2’ restaurant in New York, at Copenhagen and Los Angeles airports, and in Zaha Hadid’s extension to Danish art gallery Ordrupgaard.
Christiansen and Berlin are considered among Denmark’s most innovative contemporary designers working today, a fact that was recognized in 2015, when they were awarded the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
