Russel Wright
Jens Risom
Having created its own entity, Jens Risom Design, Inc. (JRD) from May 1, 1946 Jens Risom has never had a second look back. Jens Risom Design was one of the few companies specializing in modern furniture design at the time when America was recovering from the pains of war. Worked only to create the simple, well designed and aesthetically pleasing, quality design by Jens Risom Design name. He drew a distinction for your company focusing on the "Risom" name as the solution to finding the country of aesthetic design, contemporary furniture witty and well crafted. Risom designed furniture for celebrity clients such as Richard Avedon and Georg Jensen since.
In the 1940 he was assigned to come to cabinet houses built by Levitt & Sons in Long Island, New York for the return of war-weary soldiers and their families. These homes need a sense of design creativity to make them seem expansive and attractive despite being built low cost and with federal funding.
As he said, "was developed version American Scandinavian modern furniture. "
There was a great response to your ads that were bold. These ads made stylish photographs by Richard Avedon. This makes it imperative for Jens Risom Design, in 1954, to expand its manufacturing facilities. In late 1950, JRD began manufacturing equipment office to change the focus of residential furniture. It also gave birth to the collection of furniture and accessories Avenue hospital when he felt posed a greater room for expansion and improvement.
JRD was sold by Risom Dictaphone Corporation in 1970 where he stayed on as CEO for three years "to keep an eye on the new owners ", the magazine Interiors. From there he moved later to pursue new interests through his consulting service and free-lance design company, design of control that was established in 1973 in New Canaan, Connecticut. This is where he currently resides Jens, at the age of 92 years and still going strong, with your spouse, Henny.
In 1961, Risom appeared in Playboy as a designer who was "revolutionizing furniture in America," along with Harry Bertoia, who was a colleague of Knoll and Charles Eames.
Risom has received many awards. Their chairs are on display at museums like the Museum Yale Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Brooklyn Museum, the RISD Museum in Providence and the National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt. In 1996, Risom was appointed Denmark's knight with Knight's Cross of the Danish queen.
In 1997 Knoll remanufactured Risom designed a collection of chairs, tables, chairs and stools that until now are a successful part of the catalog Knoll Studio. He was the 2004 honoree Russell Wright Award, which honors individuals, institutions and companies that carry on the legacy of Wright in modern design, landscape design and environmentalism.
Risom statement of "good design means that everything that is good in itself happen with other things "to expose its stylistic philosophy and approach to the exquisite interior.
Russel Wright – A brief encounter with a collector.
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