Rosendahl, Kay Bojesen Songbird Ernst

KAY BOJESEN SONGBIRD ERNST.

Design by Kay Bojesen.

Songbird Ernst is named after Kay Bojesen's father, an extremely versatile man. He was a business man, editor, cultural personality and a creative soul, who together with his wife Valborg inspired his son Kay to create a flock of beloved wooden figures.

Lacquered birchwood, height 15 cm. 

About the designer:

Kay Bojesen (1886-1958) was an apprentice of Georg Jensen, training as a silversmith from 1906. After a few years in Germany and France, he began working as a silversmith in Copenhagen. Happily, Kay Bojesen was far too curious to restrict himself to the work of refining metals, and in the 1920s 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.