| Natural Design World-renowned design company Jacob Jensen Design has drawn inspiration from the scenery around its headquarters in northern Jutland for over 40 years. The location has helped create a large part of the design classics this studio has produced over the years. The Jacob Jensen Design studio The design studio has a unique setting. According to Timothy Jacob Jensen, Porsche Design is one of the few other internationally recognised studios in the world which has consciously opted to use a natural setting for its base. “Clean surfaces, which when looked at closely open up for a wealth of inner life. Straight lines and sharp edges which invite you to take a closer look,” the words of Timothy Jacob Jensen – and not a description of his famous kitchen, the JACOB JENSEN™ Kitchen 1, even though they could well be. They are actually a description of the view from his office windows, a view which helped give Kitchen 1 its unique appearance. |
Breaking with tradition “When I was given the task of designing a kitchen, I knew that it would be nothing like the boxy white kitchens being produced by so many others at the moment. This kitchen was to break with tradition and the dependency of kitchen manufacturers on standard measurements,” says Timothy. “Ideas had to come from another source, and I have always preferred to involve the scenery outside our windows in the creative process.” An example of this method is the angle of the wall cupboards for Kitchen 1. In Timothy’s own words, they are ‘copy & pasted’ from the golden banks of sand sloping down to the Limfjord, a shape that must have unconsciously lodged in his mind, and which popped out when he was sketching ideas. The result is a |