Designmuseum Danmark
Rococo former royal hospital turned design museum, home to a chair-lined tunnel of Danish furniture icons.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Designmuseum Danmark starts with a strange coincidence from the first televised US presidential debate, in 1960: Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy each sat in a chair built in a Copenhagen workshop. It traces the chair back to cabinetmaker Hans Wegner, who built it in about 48 hours for a guild exhibition eleven years earlier, and to an American magazine's early praise for Danish furniture. Look for it among the more than a hundred chairs lining the museum's chair tunnel.
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