Open Room Presents FDB Møbler: Danish Design for the Common Good, Since 1942

Since graduating from Design School Kolding in 1997, Thomas E. Alken (b. 1970) has been making his name as one of Denmark’s best industrial designers. For more than 20 years, he has run the design studio Format Design in Copenhagen. Since 2014, he has been responsible for updating well-known classics and as well as designing brand new FDB furniture, including the garden furniture series Sammen (Together) and the Paso hunting chair.

Thomas E. Alken says that he wants his furniture to have a broad popular appeal – in the perfect vein of FDB Møbler furniture. His furniture designs are both stylish and functional, and through their simple and lightweight design achieve a natural beauty with a timeless feel that grows even more beautiful with time. Thanks to his great sense of functionality, Thomas E. Alken’s chairs are extremely comfortable, but not only that – they make you feel at home.

Like Børge Mogensen and other former furniture designers at FDB Møbler, he takes the human body and its movements as his starting point, ensuring that the furniture reflects our social dimension. A chair should not only look good – it also has to be comfortable.

Lillico-Fennessy is a creative partnership between art director Jessica Lillico and photographer Sean Fennessy, specialising in visual storytelling and photographic image-making from concept to creation. With a particular focus on narrative-driven photography and its application as a printed medium, the pair draw on more than 15 years of practical experience plus knowledge of both enduring and emerging stylistic trends in the home, lifestyle and travel sectors.