Bodil Kjær

Bodil Kjær (b.1932) is a Danish professor, architect and designer who studied architecture in England for a year before enrolling at the Frederiksberg Technical College and School of Interior Design where she learned to create spaces from experts such as Finn Juhl and Jørgen Ditzel. After a year in the U.S in 1960 Kjær returned to Denmark and established a studio in Copenhagen. In 1965, she received a scholarship to study at London's Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She stayed in London until 1979 working as a senior architect for Arup, and later opened a studio working on projects such as residential homes cooled using solar energy for Africa’s tropical zone.

As a furniture designer, Kjær views furniture construction from a purely technical perspective, interplayed with modern architecture and created for people with practicality in mind. Here we show her range of indoor-outdoor furniture for Carl Hansen, characterised by lightness and functional expression