Bonderup & Thorup

Bonderup & Thorup

Kindred spirits Torsten Thorup and Claus Bonderup have designed almost everything together: wrist watches, displays for Georg Jensen, Finland’s Arktikum musem and the Helsingør harbor in Denmark. Designing in reaction to the prevalent cozy or hygge era in Denmark; Bonderup & Thorup are best known for their application of sharp, clean lines and geometries and classic simplicity. This approach to design is best reflected in their famed Semi Pendant - created in 1968 by adjoining two quarter-circles back-to-back. The lamp achieved great success in the 1980s with worldwide recognition as the best selling Danish design of the decade - retaining its iconic status to this day. Today in their native Denmark, Thorup’s architectural oeuvre has been likened to that of Le Corbusier, while Bonderup has become a professor at Aalborg University, where a lifelong fascination with Andrea Palladio, an Italian Renaissance architect from the 16th century, continues to inspire him. With such a fixed gaze upon timeless principles of beauty and proportion, it is no wonder that their work is represented, among other places, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

 

Bonderup & Thorup

Kindred spirits Torsten Thorup and Claus Bonderup have designed almost everything together: wrist watches, displays for Georg Jensen, Finland’s Arktikum musem and the Helsingør harbor in Denmark. Designing in reaction to the prevalent cozy or hygge era in Denmark; Bonderup & Thorup are best known for their application of sharp, clean lines and geometries and classic simplicity. This approach to design is best reflected in their famed Semi Pendant - created in 1968 by adjoining two quarter-circles back-to-back. The lamp achieved great success in the 1980s with worldwide recognition as the best selling Danish design of the decade - retaining its iconic status to this day. Today in their native Denmark, Thorup’s architectural oeuvre has been likened to that of Le Corbusier, while Bonderup has become a professor at Aalborg University, where a lifelong fascination with Andrea Palladio, an Italian Renaissance architect from the 16th century, continues to inspire him. With such a fixed gaze upon timeless principles of beauty and proportion, it is no wonder that their work is represented, among other places, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.