Anders Forup, Jewellery designer
We met with Jewellery designer and vintage enthusiast Anders Forup for a conversation on design icons, inspiration, and
his thoughts on furnishing his private home and store in Copenhagen with soulful design.
Anders Forup
Jewellery designer and owner of
Handcraftedcph and Dansk Form
I like designs that are challenging to find in stores or at flea markets. Objects that are a bit different, quirky, and eccentric. I absolutely love wooden sculptures in organic forms - why don't more people have sculptures in their homes? I think they give life and soul to an interior. I am fascinated by the more unknown Danish designers such as the ceramicist Gertrud Vasegaard and furniture makers Viggo Boesen and Knud Færch. They worked with different styles during their lives, and in some periods, they just created something that really blows you away. So cool! Unfortunately, there are also others who think the same, so these pieces are difficult to get hold of.
I love the classic Danish funkis style, so I look a lot at the most important designers from that period. I have just bought a small artwork by Francisca Clausen, which I have dreamed of for a long time. It is not important to me that design and art are expensive. I am just as happy with my wooden sculpture from the flea market as I am with my Clausen work.
When a home is mainly furnished and decorated with new designs that are just right for Instagram, I think it becomes boring and soulless. There must also be things with history and personality. When something is used, it just has a different soul and glow. It is difficult to produce an oak table today that looks like one from the 60s. If something is to be mass produced - and I know this from my own production - it can be difficult to ensure the high quality. In those days, often fewer things were produced so the craftsmen had more time to be care for the details in creating the products.
“In our home, we don’t have lots of new things.
Kasper Thorup’s design is one of the only new design pieces that easily adapts into our style. I think it is because he is also inspired by the classic designers, and you can see that Kasper puts effort into his work and production. If you look at the wool from the Faroe Islands that he uses for his chairs, I feel the nerve and personality in the design”
I find it interesting when I can sense true craftsmanship in the product. That hands have been involved making it. I have chosen Kasper's lamps for my new store in Copenhagen, truly because I sense that they come directly from the workshop and the hands of artisans. I also furnish my stores with vintage furniture, but it must not look like a museum either: it is important that my store also offer an elevated and new experience, why the combination of vintage and new design works well.
Patrone Pendant illuminating the space of Forups jewellery store, Handcraftedcph located in Copenhagen.
Noel Counter Chair, pictured among vintage and art treasures in Anders Forups workspace.
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