Audo Copenhagen Everyday Icons
Introducing Audo Copenhagen’s Everyday Icons, a new concept that honours inclusive designs with enduring cultural relevance. This unfolding collection presents carefully-considered Audo furniture, lighting and objects bearing the hallmarks of icons: exceeding form and function to engage people emotionally and culturally.
As truly great design is limitless, Everyday Icons celebrates pieces that transcend time. Past classics are re-imagined in fresh materials and colours while new products emerge to become beloved aspects of daily life for generations to come.
“Everyday Icons are more than design objects - they are conversations between generations and celebrations of heritage.” Design & Brand Director, Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen.
The collection represents talented past and present designers who are renowned for creating work of lasting significance. Either heritage or contemporary, their distinctive pieces share a sense of poetry and quiet sophistication that not only suit, but elevate, any setting.
Everyday Icons Kitting Chair Edition
For the launch of Everyday Icons, Audo reveals a special edition of Ib Kofod-Larsen’s highly collectible Knitting Chair. Designed in 1951, the chair is known for its exceptional craftsmanship and ergonomic comfort, with a unique open-arm shape that accommodates the movement of the arms when knitting. The chair is given a modern expression that preserves its cherished, midcentury legacy while adapting key elements for today: it is a modernist classic in new materials.
“The Knitting Chair embodies the perfect balance of form, function and artistic expression, making it a true design icon. Its sculptural silhouette makes an immediate visual statement, while its thoughtful design — like the open armrests that accommodate natural movement — prioritises comfort and usability.” Design & Brand Director, Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen.
With Everyday Icons, Audo invites everyone to own a piece of design history — to access special editions that honour both tradition and innovation; that symbolise the values of their era while adding beauty and meaning to the everyday.
Ib Kofod-Larsen
Architect Ib Kofod-Larsen (1921-2003) had a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s when Danish design was flourishing across the world, transforming the simple and straightforward into unusually elegant furniture.
His furniture is sophisticated and well-proportioned with beautiful silhouettes and sculptural, organic lines and curves.