Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen

Johannes Foersom (born 1947) and Peter Hiort-Lorenzen (born 1943) are a Danish design duo who have worked together since 1977. Foersom trained as a cabinetmaker with Gustav Berthelsen in Copenhagen, finishing his apprenticeship in 1969,…

Biography

Background

Johannes Foersom (born 1947) and Peter Hiort-Lorenzen (born 1943) are a Danish design duo who have worked together since 1977. Foersom trained as a cabinetmaker with Gustav Berthelsen in Copenhagen, finishing his apprenticeship in 1969, and graduated from the Arts and Crafts School in 1972. Hiort-Lorenzen became a ship carpenter at Helsingør Shipyard in 1962, then graduated from the Arts and Crafts School in 1965 and, in 1968, the Royal Danish Academy.

Signature Style

Their Campus chair answered a brief for a functional, affordable volume chair for the international contract market: it stacks, links and is moved on its own trolley, and Lammhults places it in conference, office, institutional and residential settings.

Notable Works

Campus chair (1992) and Campus Air for Lammhults
Quickly, Spira, Funk, Grade, Portus, Archal and Atlas Air for Lammhults
Apollo chair, Trinity chair and the Savannah lounge group

Legacy

The pair have worked with Lammhults since the mid-1980s and helped the Swedish company become more international; Campus, which Foersom calls "that little chair", has won several awards. Their honours include the Bruno Mathsson Award (1998), Best of NeoCon (1995) and the Finn Juhl Prize (2005).