TheTouch Designers

Was trained as an architect in Copenhagen and took up the profession as early as in the 1920s. His most famous buildings include Aarhus Town Hall in Denmark, SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and St. Catherine's College in Oxford, England. His experiments with plywood resulted in the Ant Chair in 1952 and the 3107 chair in 1955 (also known as the Seven chair) both manufactured by Fritz Hansen. His work with the SAS Royal Hotel also brought about some of his most outstanding designs, including the Egg and the Swan chairs, a stainless steel cutlery set now produced by Georg Jensen and a series of lamps manufactured by Louis Poulsen. In 1967 he designed a series of stainless steel tableware for Stelton. Being a perfectionist and a master of details, Arne Jacobsen worked right up to his death in 1971 in London trying to finish the building of the Royal Danish Embassy in Sloane Street. However, the embassy was only completed in 1977.

Is actually a goldsmith by trade and following his apprenticeship he worked at Georg Jensen. As a goldsmith, Erik Bagger acquired a keen sense of detail, which is a characteristic of his designs to the present day. Erik Bagger became an independent designer in 1987. He has designed for Rosendahl for many years.

Graduated in 1960 with a silver medal as a ceramist at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Copenhagen. He worked for porcelain manufacturer Bing & Groendahl for a number of years and for many years he has been the obvious successor to Arne Jacobsen at Stelton. Among some of his latest works is furniture for e.g. Fritz Hansen and Paustian. He has also created designs in pewter for Royal Sengalor. Erik Magnussen’s designs are exhibited in museums throughout the world and he has been awarded numerous design prizes.

Also known as Tools Design, the Danish design duo is the driving force behind the Eva Solo series of innovative products. With more than 30 prizes and Awards they rank amongst Denmark’s most rewarded designers.

Is a craftsman and a textile designer by profession. Her work ranges from series of porcelain for Royal Scandinavia to set designer and costumes designer for the Royal Danish Ballet, architectural decorations of e.g. her father's (Joern Utzon) church in Copenhagen, corporate headquarters for Volvo in Gothenburg and IBM in Dallas, Texas.

1905-1996

Danish inventor and poet who decided to find an absolutely harmonic physical dsign. This became the superellipse which solved the double contrast between the circle and the square and that of the ellipse and the rectangle. This harmonic geometrical figure was first used on a large scale in connection with the solution to a town planning problem in Stockholm.

Within furniture design the superellipse also became the solution to various problems - especially in relation to Piet Hein's design for table tops the superellipse became popular.

Known for his psychedelic colours and designs from the 1960s. Panton started as an assistant to Arne Jacobsen between 1950 and 1953 where Panton was responsible for the first colour scheme for Jacobsen's Ant chair. After opening his own designer studio in 1955, Panton created everything from inflatable furniture, carpets and lamps to the radical Cone wire chair. In the early 1960s, Panton moved to Basel, Switzerland, and the world suddenly learned to appreciate his colour vision, new materials and soft wall surfaces. His most well known chair, simply called the Panton Chair, went into production in 1967 and i now reissued by Vitra in a new, low cost plastic version. His Panthella lamp for Louis Poulsen is also in production. Panton worked intensely up until his death in 1998 and some of his last designs have only recently been launched.