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KÄHLER – ARTISTIC CERAMICS THROUGH GENERATIONS

Since the founding in 1839, Kähler has been presented at exhibitions and museums around the world, and Kähler is an internationally recognized ceramics company with a strong artistic heritage.

100 years ago, respected artists as Thorvald Bindesbøll, Svend Hammershøi and Kai Nielsen explored ceramics at Kähler – today among others Louise Campbell, Cecilie Manz and Jeanette List Amstrup carry on the tradition – with the ambition of bringing art to the people.

Kähler honors art. Then. And now.


PRIMADONNA

BOWL H 200 MM

DESIGN CLAYDIES – KAREN KJÆLDGÅRD-LARSEN & TINE BROKSØ

With Primadonna, Kähler cements its century-long tradition for art ceramics. Behind the new objects stand the ceramicists Tine Broksø and Karen Kjældgård-Larsen, or Claydies, who have created some of the most acclaimed designs on the contemporary Danish ceramics scene.

The ’Hairstyle bowls’ concept has absorbed Claydies for a number of years and originates in a desire to rank the ceramics craft along with the art of tailoring. Karen Kjældgård-Larsen says: ”The Hairstyle bowls are a showdown with quiet and harmless ceramics. We want to turn things upside down and contribute to a new perception of what ceramics are and can do.”


PRIMADONNA

BOWL H 200 MM


In recent years, Claydies have made

their mark on the new and experi-

mental generation of young Danish

ceramicists.

Claydies work conceptually with

ceramics on the basis of a set of

dogma rules which engage in a

showdown with ‘quiet and harm-

less’ ceramics.

CERAMIC HAUTE COUTUREThe doubleness of the Primadonna objects is also reflected in the tension between the provocative and the historically rooted designs. The bowls want to provoke, but at the same time they call to mind the Danish art nouveau tradition with their curly ‘locks’ and organic silhouettes.

Claydies’ unique Hairstyle bowls are typical Kähler style and are strong, modern exponents of the Kähler tradition for artistic freedom.

The Claydies ceramicists have received a number of grants for their conceptual approach to ceramic craftsmanship, including from the Government Art Fund, the Ministry of Culture Development Fund and the New Carlsberg Foundation.


DESIGN LOUISE CAMPBELL

In Fiducia, Louise Campbell has created a fusion of vase and candlestick in an innovative and experimental form that provides for a wide range of combinations. Louise Campbell fabulates about the bonds and connections that make up relations between people. Fiducia is Italian for trust and the word has with its beautiful sound and strong symbolic significance been an inspiration for the design.

Fiducia is a series of combination vases and candlesticks that are strong in expression – without being fussy. The vases and candlesticks cannot stand alone but belong together, as a family.

READERS FAVOURITE

Fiducia won ‘Boligmagasinets’ big Design Award in the readers favourite-category.

FIDUCIA

Graduated from The Danish Design

School as an industrial designer in

1995.

Louise Campbell is one of the

greatest talents in design, and is

particularly well-known for her

furniture.

Among many grants and prizes,

Louise Campbell has been awarded

the Danish Art Foundation’s 3-year

work grant, the Finn Juhl Architecture

Prize and was named 2005 Designer

of the Year by Bo Bedre.

VASES/CANDLESTICKS H 210 MM

48,26 pt

Design Awards 09Bolig Magasinets


KÄHLER PLACED DANISH ART ON THE WORLD MAP

Herman August Kähler was the Kähler who placed Kähler on the world map. In the portrait, painted by L.A. Ring, Kähler sits in his workshop and forms the smooth surfaces, glazes could play on. Herman August got his breakthrough at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889, where he caused a stir with a vase completely dipped in a red, shiny metallic luster glazer which was normally only used for decoration. Alongside the HAK signature, the luster glaze became the Kähler trademark.


KÄHLER BY KRØYER

In its time, the Kähler workshop attracted recognized artists and turned Næstved into an artist colony similar to that at Skagen. In 1905, P.S. Krøyer painted his friend Herman August Kähler while he conjured forms from the clay at his potter’s wheel.

There were several parallels to the artist colony in Skagen, where art and love became united. Bonds between several of the flocking artists and the Kähler family were created through marriages with the Kähler daughters.


BOZZA

With more than twenty years’

experience as a ceramicist, including

a number of years at Kähler, Søren

Thygesen is experienced at his craft.

DESIGN SØREN THYGESEN

Bozza – a sensuous design that bubbles with joy. The Bozza bowl design is made extra decorative with the use of semi-transparent glazes of different new colours such as dove blue, eggshell white and khaki green. The design of the bowl’s base gives the bowl lightness and lifts it from the surface as a powerful contrast to the pottery’s weight.

BOWL Ø 300 MM

BOWL Ø 300 MM


CAMMEODESIGN LOUISE CAMPBELL

In Cammeo, Louise Campbell has created a functional piece of art with room to store everyday bits and bobs. Cammeo is a series of lean designed and machine-washable containers where the joy of its many uses is surpassed only by its unique and modern expression.

JAR H 115 MM with 6 coloured rubber bands



Graduated from The Danish Design

School as an industrial designer in

1995.

Louise Campbell is one of the

greatest talents in design, and is

particularly well-known for her

furniture.

Among many grants and prizes,

Louise Campbell has been awarded

the Danish Art Foundation’s 3-year

work grant, the Finn Juhl Architecture

Prize and was named 2005 Designer

of the Year by Bo Bedre.


CAMMEO


KÄHLER JARS BEFORE AND NOW

The World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893 was the first overseas exhibition Kähler participated in. Outlets were established in different parts of the United States, and in New York, Kähler pottery was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The initials, HAK, became a quality stamp, which attracted prominent people. Several European royal houses bought Kähler pottery. The presence on the international art and crafts scene, alongside world renowned artists, elevated Kähler’s production from a sales success to recognized art.

The World’s Fair in Chicago, 1893.

Old Olsen, the potter’s wheel master behind the success.

Herman August Kähler who made the signature ”HAK” world known.

Horn decorated lid jars, year 1900.


BOTTINODESIGN AGNES FRIES

Bottino is masculine with a twist. The ambition behind the series is to make pottery for women – and men! Bottino is inspired by the classic fishing float which apart from belonging to a distinctly masculine universe also holds great beauty in its geometric shapes and decorations. Agnes Fries (1979) trained in

ceramics and glass at The Danish

Design School, graduating in 2005.

She has reaped great praise both at

home and abroad for her functional

pottery crafts and in 2006, she

received a travel grant from the

Ministry of Culture. She is a member

of the designers group, F6, who are

behind various exhibitions.

Agnes Fries was attached with

Kähler in 2008.

VASE H 245 MM VASE H 165 MMVASE H 245 MM VASE H 165 MM


BOTTINO

VASE H 240 MM VASE H 240 MMVASE H 240 MM VASE H 240 MM


Signe Steffensen decorates with horn painting.

Agnes Fries in her workshop.

THE PAINTING LADY WITH THE HORNS

Signe Steffensen was a painting lady at Kähler until 1934. With liquid clay colour in the cow horn, she decorated the outside of the pottery, giving every piece its own expression. A sales success was in the bag!

With Bottino, Agnes Fries interprets the fishing float’s forms and decorations. The richness of colours and expressions in the hand-painted vase series appeal to both him and her.

VASE H 160 MM

VASE H 160 MMVASE H 160 MM


SPIRO

CUP H 100 MM

DESIGN HELLE RITTIG

The sensuous pleasure of steaming hot drinks and a firm grip on design are incorporated into Kähler’s new vacuum cup. Moreover, Spiro pays homage to the beauty of shells. The ingenuity is most immediately apparent in Spiro’s spiral design, whose form took inspiration from the powerful, yet delicate appearance of shells. Like the snail shell, Spiro is modelled around an outer shell, whose insulating effect protects and keeps the contents warm, thus achieving complete harmony between the shape and function of the vacuum cup.

A distinct Kähler feature is the transparent glaze, saturated and rich, and the colours of Spiro are intense and inviting.

Helle Rittig graduated from the

School of Decorative Art in 1985,

and today, she operates her own

ceramics studio.

Here she works with design of

articles for everyday use, which

in Helle Rittig’s interpretation are

beautiful and sensuous in all their

functional simplicity.


SPAZIO

Bjørn Poulsen (1959) graduated from

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine

Arts in 1988.

He has had exhibitions at Funen Art

Museum, Clausen’s Art Gallery as

well as a great deal of established

galleries in Copenhagen and Sweden.

DESIGN BJØRN POULSEN

Sculptor Bjørn Poulsen has shaped the fruit bowl Spazio with both the functional and sculptural in mind. With a tight expression and small breathing holes for the fruit, Spazio is a breath of fresh air for your dining table – an artistic accomplishment, even when the bowl is empty.

BOWL Ø 245 MM

BOWL Ø 245 MM


KÄHLER AND THE EIFFEL TOWER HONOURED SAME YEAR

Kähler have always experimented with glazes. The red luster glaze was in 1889 honoured with a medal at the World Exhibition in Paris – the same year the Eiffel Tower was built as a tribute to the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution.

Bjørn Poulsen has designed and shaped the fruit bowl, Spazio. He has lined it with contemporary glazes that highlight a piece where functionality and sculpture form a synthesis.


OMAGGIODESIGN RECKWEG & NORDENTOFT

As an homage to Kähler and the demands of ceramics for form and precision, the two designers Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft, have reinterpreted the classic raw stripes. With coarse brush strokes and in a modern shape, they have created the Omaggio vase – a unique and bold impression of the times. Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou

Nordentoft are both trained in



Together they run the designstore

Stilleben.

FLOOR VASE H 500 MM


OMAGGIO

VASE H 305 MM

VASE H 125 MM

BOWL Ø 100 MM


Svend Hammershøi in the Kähler workshop in 1904.

A MASTER IN DIFFICULT CERAMICS

Svend Hammershøi started in the Kähler workshop in 1904, where he worked for decades. He was one of the few artists who also had sharp sense of ceramic crafts. Hammershøi modelled the characteristic profiles onto the pottery as a final touch. Horizontal and vertical lines were his trademarks.

As a tribute to the pottery’s demands for sublime crafts work, Reckweg and Nordentoft has created a contemporary interpretation of the classic vase form and added raw stripes of coarse brush strokes.

BOWL Ø 150 MM

BOWL Ø 200 MM

Kähler pottery with classic brush strokes has been the inspiration for the designers.


OMAGGIO

VASE H 200 MM

DISH Ø 300 MM BOWL Ø 200 MM


BULBODESIGN JEANETTE LIST AMSTRUP

Originating from direct work with the ceramic material, Jeanette List Amstrup has shaped Bulbo – a stylish vase with soft forms and an industrially artistic design, which enhances the expression in the organic growth.

Jeanette List Amstrup graduated

from The Danish Design School in

1994.

Since then she has had her own

workshop and has worked for Royal

Copenhagen and Höganäs Keramik,

among others. Jeanette List Amstrup

was attached to Kähler in 2007.

VASE H 315 MM

VASE H 180 MMVASE H 180 MM VASE H 180 MM

VASE H 315 MM VASE H 315 MM


BULBINO

VASE H 150 MM

VASE H 150 MM

VASE H 150 MM



1994.






DESIGN JEANETTE LIST AMSTRUP

Jeanette List Amstrup originally created Bulbino as a one-of-a-kinddesign for one single flower. Not two vases were identical in shapeor colour, and together the vases transformed into a vivid sculpturewhich drifted your mind to waving flowery meadows.

Bulbino’s curved, ascending shapes differ depending on which waythe vase is turned, and one single flower is enough to make a home, adinner table or a special scenario cheerful and full of life.

VASE H 150 MM


MANODESIGN JEANETTE LIST AMSTRUP

When Jeanette List Amstrup lets her intuition inspire her work, the shape emerges as a natural part of the process. Mano is no exception. Arisen from the natural and undisturbed, she has designed both cup and bowl, which in their simplicity are unique in both design and functionality.

The series is available in 8 colours. The cups are available in two sizes.

CUP H 85 MM / CUP H 70 MM



1994.







MANO

TEAPOT 150 CL


RARE CASTS CAPTURED THE DANES

Together with artist Kai Nielsen, Niels Kähler series-produced art for many Danish homes in the 1930s. Kai Nielsen also captured – and outraged – the U.S. with his naked figures in plain-coloured glazes.

He had the notion that his art should reach the people and not just decorate museums and public buildings. So he made smaller versions of his large sculptures.

Niels Kähler.

BOWL Ø 145 MM


TRIPLODESIGN SØREN THYGESEN

Triplo is a multifunctional piece with several applications depending on how the sculpture is placed – use it as a candlestick, a tea light candle holder, and flower vase – arrange the Triplo sculpture in simple tableaux according to mood and occasion.

VASE/CANDLESTICK H 95 MM

VASE/CANDLESTICK H 95 MM VASE/CANDLESTICK H 95 MM






PURADESIGN CECILIE MANZ

The ultimate purity and refined expression of bone china, combined with Cecilie Manz’ talent for design, have given birth to Pura. A series of simple, functional elements for any modern table. With its simple lines, its purity is surpassed only by its functionality.

CUP H 110 MM CUP H 65 MM CUP H 86 MM


Cecilie Manz (1972) graduated from

The Danish Design School in 1997.

Cecilie Manz (1972) is educated

from the Danish Design School in

1997. She has worked out of her

own drawing office in Copenhagen

since 1998.

PLATE Ø 140 MM

BOWL Ø 140 MM

PLATE Ø 210 MM

BOWL Ø 210 MM VASE H 145 MM


FACCETTADESIGN SØREN THYGESEN

With more than twenty years’ experience as a ceramicist, including a number of years at Kähler, Søren Thygesen is experienced at his craft. This is clear from his latest creation, the multi-faceted bowl – a striking, decorative bowl with various levels and dynamic curves.

BOWL Ø 245 MM

BOWL Ø 245 MM BOWL Ø 245 MM


BOWL Ø 145 MM

BOWL Ø 145 MM

BOWL Ø 145 MM

BOWL Ø 185 MM

BOWL Ø 185 MM

BOWL Ø 185 MM

BOWL Ø 210 MM

BOWL Ø 210 MM

BOWL Ø 210 MM






VITINODESIGN SØREN THYGESEN

A long life with ceramics has taught Søren Thygesen to use the material to its full potential. With its winding curves and playful expressions, Vitino is a study in classic Kähler aesthetics with lines deciding the direction of the stalk of each flower. The different profiles give each vase its own distinctive personality; common to them all, however, is the vigorous movement with the centre as an elegant pivotal point.

VASE Ø 335 MM VASE Ø 335 MM VASE Ø 185 MM






VASE Ø 225 MM VASE Ø 185 MM VASE Ø 225 MM


MARMITTADESIGN SØREN THYGESEN

The Marmitta roaster has an updated and sensuous expression shaped by the experienced Kähler hands of Søren Thygesen. The form’s reflection between top and bottom effectively encapsulates the content, seals in the heat – and allows only your imagination to run free.

ROASTER 2,0 L

ROASTER 2,8 L

ROASTER 3,3 L






STORIADESIGN KÄHLER

In the 1930s, the classic Kähler-teapot was produced with its characteristic, spiral-shaped handles. Today we challenge the original approach and offer the traditional Kähler ceramics a well-deserved renaissance. The result is authentic and informal art, the pleasure of which is only enhanced by its nostalgic expression.

The Storia tea-set is Kähler Designs’ first attempt to recreate things from the workshop’s past.

TEACUP W/SAUCER 18 CL CAKE PLATE Ø 190 MM

TEAPOT 100 CL


ART AND FUNCTIONALITY UNITED IN CLASSIC FORMS

Herman Joachim Kähler, the first Kähler, started his small cera-mics workshop in Næstved in 1839 with the production of dairy dishes, pickle pots and baking moulds. The second generation of Kähler added art objects to the collection, and in the 1930s, the third generation of Kähler united the purposes of previous generations: functionality and art.

Functional items such as coffee and tea sets, plates and dishes are given beautiful, artistic forms. A tradition is founded. Kähler’s workshop, interior.

Second and third generation Kähler. Herman August Kähler with son Herman H.C.

The wheel room.

Dairy dish, 1839.


STORIA

CREAM JUG 10 CL

MUG 30 CL

SUGAR BOWL Ø 130 MM

JUG 40 CL


LUMINADESIGN RECKWEG & NORDENTOFT

The design duo, Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft are expanding their product portfolio for Kähler with Lumina. A small candle holder inspired by the shape of a tea light in a palette of pastels. Beautiful alone, but fabulous in a group – and the glow created by the interior glaze of the candle holder provides for colourful tableaux.

CANDLE HOLDER H 46 MM

Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou

Nordentoft are both trained in



Together they run the designstore

Stilleben.

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