Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation

The Motivation from Statens Kunstfond (The Danish Arts Foundation):
"For over 40 years, the Carpenters' Autumn Exhibition has heralded the arrival of autumn with an annual exhibition. Here architects/designers and cabinetmakers/manufacturers show the result of their collaboration - a collaboration that used to be taken for granted but today cannot be taken for granted. "Factory" is the theme of this year's exhibition. A word that has taken on a nostalgic tone as production has moved out of the country, turning Danish factories into rare and exotic destinations or, as here the theme of an exhibition. The exhibitors all have a professional relationship with manufacturing and relate broadly to the theme. Flat-pack design - where manufacturing is outsourced to the consumer's home - seems to be a dominant concept which is interpreted in very different ways: Peter Johansen's easy-to-read and self-evident stool is an example of a highly usable design that can be easily assembled in any home, while Ditte Hammerström's fabulous and voluminous side sculpture plays with and challenges the rationality of flat-pack dogma and the assembly process itself to the extreme. Others choose to expose the aesthetics of the making process itself or approach it more abstractly to the factory theme, but either way, the high quality of craftsmanship is a feature of all the works on display, which are bound together by an unbroken podium that winds through the old factory hall like a stylized assembly line. Elegantly, simply and intelligently resolved by Sara Martinsen. It's a pleasure to see how good craftsmanship, meticulousness, and uncompromising creative urge unfold over four decades with undiminished strength."