12. JUNE- 27. JUNE 2025

In this second edition of the Værktøj 2 exhibition, we have choosen the press tool as our starting point for the making.

MANIFESTO

Throughout history, tools have been crucial to humanity’s ability to survive and innovate, from
primitive stone tools to advanced machinery, tools have been key to shaping the world.
With the exhibition format, we want to communicate and demonstrate how our identity as
designers is largely shaped by the tools we use; as they not only drive the development of ideas
and creative processes but also leave a distinct imprint on the final product.

Kasper Salto · Frederik Gustav
Michael Antrobus · Jonas Trampedach

Invites for this year:

ALVILDE HOLM
DEPPING & JØRGENSEN
JOHN TREE
TOM DIXON

OneCollection launches new minimalist chair in solid wood by Kasper Salto.

The world is full of chairs – With its latest launch, furniture manufacturer OneCollection, also known for the House of Finn Juhl brand, presents a chair that goes right to the heart of things: Simple lines, thoughtful craftsmanship and an expression that speaks for itself. KS1 is a stackable chair in solid hardwood – comfortable to sit in, nice to touch, easy to maintain and created to be used every day. The chair has been tested for highest level in public use.

For the sixth season in a row, ‘Denmark’s next classic’ has just rolled across the screen on DR. The focus this year has been to move closer to reality.

In a moderated conversation with Ane Cortzen, the judges Pil Bredahl and Kasper Salto, as well as designer Saskia Hübner, who won the masterpiece challenge with her sofa Bau22, we focus on how both site-specific and circular design are criteria for what can be described as a new classic in 2025.

2. November 2024

Author Peter Gall Krogh, Moderator Mette Bluhme Rieck and I had a good talk about design, taking offset in the new book release from Aarhus Universitetsforlag;  Design?

Design is something and more than just well-made things. Every design contains messages about what’s important in life – whether it is sustainability, craftsmanship traditions or efficiency.

The Danes love design, and we are known for it all over the world. Join us when architect and author of “Design” Peter Gall Krogh together with “Denmark’s next classic” host Mette Bluhme Rieck and industrial designer Kasper Salto prove that design is much more than beautiful lamps

19. SEPTEMBER – 18. OKTOBER 2024

The focal point of the exhibition is ‘the bent’.

Specifically, we have focused on Gressel HB14, a manually operated iron bending machine used in

The industry to manufacture a wide range of products, from shopping carts to furniture.

With this common and very specific starting point we wanted to create a coherent

exhibition there, despite our different approaches for the design profession, ability to unite us.

Also we hope to communicate and demonstrate how we as designers, are largely shaped by the

tool we use – that the tool is of great importance to the development of ideas  and creative processes.

We are:

FREDERIK GUSTAV
JONAS TRAMPEDACH
KASPER SALTO
MICHAEL ANTROBUS

WINNER

Category, Excellent Product Design.

The »UV AIR« air filtration unit ensures clean room air and is also aesthetically pleasing thanks to its minimalist housing design made of steel and CO₂-free linoleum.

UV AIR is simple, functional, and a sublime handcrafted solution that provides efficient air disinfection, reducing airborn virus and bacteria, in this nicely designed piece of equipment. UV AIR has efficient UV-C lamps, light deflecting material and a high-performance but extremely quiet fans, securing a large airflow. UV AIR is made of a solid steel construction, mounted with surfaces in linoleum, which is antistatic and bacteria-repellent and therefore does not attract dust and dirt. This makes UV AIR a robust but yet very discreet product that lives up to the basic idea – that our products does not steal the focus from the interior in a room, but forms a coherent whole in different environments.

Our virus-killing UV BENCH has now also caught attention abroad and has won two prestigious DNA Paris Design Awards 2022.
Each year, the DNA Paris Design Awards honor the best designs from around the world in architecture, interior design, landscape design, graphic design and product design. UV BENCH are praised in the categories “Responsible Design” and “Design for people”.

With designology in mind, I developed the UV BENCH in collaboration with EFSEN UV and EB technology – a solution that serves several purposes. One of those being to reduce the spread of bacteria and viruses, which is in perfect alignment with the future’s need for increased hygiene. A trend that also resonates in other industries and which can help form the framework for a new everyday life post-Corona.

As part of a new collaboration with FDB Furniture, Salto & Sigsgaard has designed a new chair for outdoor use.

Thanks to its stainless steel construction, the Teglgaard chair is light weight and easy to move around in the garden, even when stacked. Its a strong chair with tightly woven cords, that creates a firm and comfortable seat. The stainless steel frame is uncoated – to avoid the worn look that comes when lacquer is damaged by wear and tear. Moreover, stainless steel ages beautifully, and is very easy to maintain with an ordinary scouring pad and water. The strings dry quickly after a downpour, so all in all a very useful, long lasting and comfortable chair.

Read more about the chair at FDB Furniture