Designer
Anker Bak
Anker Bak is a Danish cabinetmaker and designer born in 1983. Raised in rural Denmark, he developed woodworking skills in his grandfather's woodcarving workshop in Sweden and trained as a cabinetmaker at a boatbuilding company in 2004.
Biography
Background
Anker Bak is a Danish cabinetmaker and designer born in 1983. Raised in rural Denmark, he developed woodworking skills in his grandfather's woodcarving workshop in Sweden and trained as a cabinetmaker at a boatbuilding company in 2004.
Human-centred practice
Bak describes design as a way to solve real problems for real people. His projects often begin with needs experienced by him or close family members, or with observation and conversation in the places where people live and work.
Education and experience
After his apprenticeship he worked internationally, including in Japan, Finland, China and Hawaii. He later returned to Denmark and completed a bachelor's degree in furniture design at VIA University College in 2014.
Recognition
Bak has received the Wegner and Finn Juhl prizes, alongside the Joinery Award and the Ejvind & Inga Kold Christensen Prize. A Danish Design Award also named him Designer of the Year.