modernism

“Nobody ever showed puff pastry the way I showed it. Or the glossaries of the apples and the chrysanthemums. And we prided ourselves so much on all of that modernism. And he didn’t get any of that.”

He’s looking forward to attending Modernism Week, an exhibition of midcentury architecture and design, in Palm Springs from Thursday through Sunday to show his work.

It will be open to the public during Modernism Week, which runs Feb. 15-25.

Overshadowed by granite-and-glass high-rises with their empty floors and shuttered storefronts, it has survived redevelopment and earthquakes, modernism and the pandemic while holding fast to its 19th century principles.

To celebrate the 110th birthday of the godfather of Danish Modernism in April, Carl Hansen released a children’s version of the classic Wishbone Chair.