On show at Design Werck in Copenhagen is a major work from the cabinetmakers Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen of Egeværk.

It is hanging sculpture - a globe with a diameter of 1.8 metres - that is deceptively simple but with 14 perfectly cut, curved and finished ribs in walnut that are slotted together at the top and bottom where they are held with a key piece in maple.

Suspended from the ceiling but with the axis set at an angle of 23.5 degrees, ORBIT twists slowly to throw shadows across itself and across the floor.

This is an amazing combination of imagination and consummate skill for a simple geometric form but with a complex and precise construction making maximum use of the grain, colour and character of the wood.

Design Werck

Egeværk

A relatively new gallery and event space that was opened by Birgitte Bjerregaard just over a year ago. It is in an historic dockyard building on the very narrow strip of land to the east of Nyholm - so between the canal of Søminegraven with house boats moored along the quay immediately across the front of the gallery and to its east the more open water of Minebådsgraven further to the east with trees, reed beds and wild ducks.

Design Werck represents a number of designers and furniture makers and provides them with an attractive space where they can see clients or have meetings and the gallery also organises a programme of lectures and events. It is described by the team as a meeting point for design and wine as Vinwerck is in the same building.

What is interesting, and more unusual in the city, is that they cover a wider range of Nordic design and at the moment have textiles and furniture from Finland as well as some Swedish work.

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