LOS SOLDADITOS DE MADERA DE KAY BOJESEN

Design toys.

Grandes maesctros escandinavos dedicaron gran parte de su vida a la  fabricacion de juguetes en madera.

Hoy por hoy estos son iconos del mundo del coleccionismo escandinavo.

De pequeño recuerdo que no podía faltar un soldadito de plomo inglés entre mis juguetes, pero tampoco faltaba un bello juguete de madera, lo que nunca me imagine es que todavía despues de viejo lo quisera disfrutar.

Si quieren un ejercito de 4 soldados para adornar su colección de muebles, vengan a Freak Hansen a ver the british soldiers, diseñados por Kay Bojesen.

Kay Bojesen

“Just because cutlery is solid in terms of weight, it does not have to feel heavy. With the right balance, the spoon or fork will not attract the attention of the user in a negative way.” Kay Bojesen Kay Bojesen (1886–1958) was an apprentice of Georg Jensen, training as a silversmith in 1910. After a few years in Germany and France, he began working as a silversmith in Copenhagen. In the 1930s he realised there was something particularly lively about wood, and his wooden figures have made him one of the great pioneers of Danish art manufacture. Happily, Kay Bojesen was far too curious to restrict himself to the work of refining metals, and he began experimenting with other materials. In the course of his exploration, he discovered wood as a material with very special possibilities for industrial treatment and styling. This discovery led to the classic guardsmen and a whole zoological garden taking shape between his hands.