Craft
The furniture, its materials and craftsmanship, created a special connection between the Museum’s architecture and the paintings. The Museum and its furniture are an hommage to excellent craft skills and to an overarching concept which draws it all together, namely that synergy of art and craft which was widespread across Denmark and beyond at the beginning of the 1900s. As architect Carl Petersen designed the decorative elements for the ventilation grills, door handles and functional lamps, while he custom-made the furniture in collaboration with a young designer Kaare Klint. The entire construct had to resonate with the Funen paintings and Kai Nielsen’s sculpture.