Tage Frid
Rectangular Coffee Table with Magazine/Book Shelf
Metal plate signed “Frid” on underside
A rectangular coffee table by Danish master woodworker and educator Tage Frid. The work’s low slung, planar form and turned leg base is a perfect representation of Frid’s extremely influential Danish-mid-century visual vocabulary. Additionally, the work includes a magazine/bookshelf made from linear slats which span the works understructure.
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 | 60.5 × 17.5 × 18.5 in |
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