Tage Frid
Wall Hung Entrance Bench, 1956
Walnut
From an interview where Tage Frid is discussing his design choices for the Wall Hung Entrance Bench.
Frid: “For the entranceway, we made a bench, so you could sit down, and then you could open the lid and inside here was a brass-lined tray so you could put galoshes and things like that in there. And the holes, they are for the umbrellas. So you come, you could stick them in.Brown: Why these random shapes, these openings? Are they not random?
Frid: That became design. We’ve adjusted the holes. But it’s very clear with dovetails and very simple.”
Tage frid (1915-2004) was a Danish-born woodworker, Frid had an inestimable influence on the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States. “Without a doubt, Frid represents the single greatest influence on American woodworking education today,” writes Michael A. Stone, author of Contemporary American Woodworkers. According to the famed woodworker, Jere Osgood, “It’s reached a point where most of the people teaching in wood programs on the East Coast are either students of Frid or students of his students. We in turn pass on his ideas, consciously and unconsciously, to our own students.”
| Dimensions | 54 × 21 × 8.5 in |
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| Date | 1956 |
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