Todd Bracher
Designer tables by Todd Bracher
Todd Bracher was born in New York, but moved to Copenhagen at the age
of 24 to study design in the city where heroes such as Arne Jacobsen
and Poul Kjærholm had lived. After his stay in Copenhagen he moved to
Paris, Milan and London before returning to his roots and moving to
Brooklyn. He has now arrived at his own take on what constitutes good
design, and that vision has come to expression in the new table he has
designed for Fritz Hansen; a table which can be used both for meetings
and for dinner. Despite his New York roots, Todd Bracher’s work
takes the Scandinavian design tradition as its reference point. It was
this fascination with Scandinavian design which took him to Copenhagen
to graduate from Danmarks Designskole, and it was this feeling of
belonging that made him an obvious choice for Fritz Hansen.
”All
design is about the delicate balance between over-designing and
under-designing the object. I like the fact that the table looks as if
it couldn’t have been made in any other way. It is as if it was created
in one long, natural movement." Todd Bracher.
”It’s important for me
that it doesn’t demand too many explanations. There is nothing to
understand – it is just a frame and a surface." Todd Bracher
