Kaare Klint

Klint measured people and their belongings before he designed anything: how much cupboard space a set of shirts, plates or cutlery actually needs, and the proportions of the human body at rest. That research, carried out with students at the Royal Danish Academy's furniture school he founded in 1924, is the foundation of Danish modern. His Safari chair of 1933, based on a British campaign chair, packs flat without tools, and the folding Propeller stool shows the same economy. Many later Danish masters, Børge Mogensen among them, were his students.