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In Denmark, we have a long tradition of design and craftsmanship. A tradition where competent craftsmen, either themselves or in collaboration with designers and architects, have developed and produced.

The furniture industry is a good example. It is based on equal parts craftsmanship and equal parts sense of form. A happy and respectful race to create the perfect. A tradition that most associates with the heyday of Danish furniture art and with the iconic and sought after furniture of the 50s and 60s.

Since the 1960s, there has been more focus on design than on crafts, and for a long time it has been more prestigious to be a designer than to be a carpenter. For a time, the crafts were deselected by the creative and visionary, but this is no longer the case. Crafts are a tribute to that development. The book portrays 15 young people and their businesses.

Rigetta Klint has been following the craftsmen and their families for a long time. She has visited their home and their workplace. Craft is about professional pride. The book focuses not only on the end products, but equally on the process, materials, tools, and the people behind it and the lifestyle choices they have made. In a few, but well-chosen words and in many, many pictures, she describes their passion, their product and their thoughts on life.

In addition, she talks with the artisans about what they think about the future of their own business and of their profession. Many of the portrayed artisans handle their entire production themselves, others use their craft to make prototypes, which are then produced wholly or semi-industrially. Common to them is the passion. Although many of them work far more than 40 hours a week, they experience great freedom and experience a coherent life.

• 21.5 x 28 cm - Hardcover
• Language Danish
• Published by Muusmann
• Written and illustrated by Rigetta Klint
• ISBN: 9788793575622