Vignelli Center Lecture: Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies presents Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen, co-founders of Denmark-based design studio Egeværk, for its Design Conversations Lecture Series. The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Wegmans Theater (MAGIC Spell Studios).

About Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen

Egeværk is a design studio based in Elsinore, Denmark, established by artists Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen. Trained at the rigorous Danish joinery PP Møbler, Bentzen and Kristensen develop hand-carved furniture inspired by the natural forms and muted tones of the Scandinavian landscape. Many of their designs appear frozen in moments of flux, drift, and erosion, embracing the fluidity and incremental transformation of the tides, the strata of slow-melting ice made visible in a disintegrating glacier, the gradual buildup of lime deposits that form stalagmites, or the undulating motion of marine life.

As a duo, Bentzen and Kristensen have been awarded the Carpentry Prize, Danish Design Awards (Best in Arts & Crafts), the Peter, Ingrid and Ralph Hernoe Honorary Grant, and other marks of honor. Egeværk’s work is in the collections of the Trapholt Museum, Imagine Museum, Lune Rouge Collection, and the collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller. In addition, Kristensen was selected as the winner of the Danish and Nordic championships in cabinetmaking and has represented Denmark in the World Cup in Japan, for which he received the Mærsk Grant and the Poul & Gurli Madsen Grant.