Kristina Dam

Kristina Dam founded her Copenhagen studio in 2012. She trained as a graphic designer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2007, and came to furniture from that direction rather than from cabinetmaking.

The background shows in the work. Pieces are drawn with the flatness and precision of graphics, then given weight in brass, marble, oak, steel and glass. The studio describes the intention as letting art and interior design meet inside the same object.

The result moves easily between function and sculpture — tables, benches and coat racks alongside objects made only to be looked at. Proportion carries most of the expression; ornament is almost entirely absent.