THE GALLERY

The sculptor Rudolph Tegner inaugurated his museum building north of Copenhagen

in 1938 to house his giant plaster sculptures, having sought the architetural expertise

of Mogens Lassen’s close collaborator, the engineer Ernst Ishøy. As many times

before, Ishøy and Lassen collaborated on this project. Indeed, an old architectural

drawing of the museum building dating back to 1937 shows Lassen’s characteristic

cursive signature, as a mark of the latter’s support of Tegner’s original concept for

the eight-sided main building, which the principals were of the functionalist modernist

architecture, where Lassen already pioneered within.

Originally the walls were cast in the raw cement, as was characteristic of Ishøy

and Lassen’s collaboration; 80 years later, the walls have been restored and

stained in ochre, turquoise and terracotta. At once pompous, yet unpretentious and

overwhelmingly inviting, the museum is treasure trove to discover.

So it’s fitting that, to show its SS18 collection, by Lassen has staged a number of its

pieces in the building, side by side with Tegner’s sculptures – and in doing so, the

brand shines a light on the story of a colla

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boration that, 80 years later, still remains

powerful.

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