Danish Design :: Jørgen Gammelgaard

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1938	Born: Bispeberg, Denmark. Awarded Silver Medal.
1957	Apprentice at C.B.Hansens Workshop Copenhagen. Journeyman cabinet maker at A.J.Iversen. (until 1959)
1959	Student at School for Arts and Crafts. (until 1962) Awarded Silver and Bronze Medals for arts and crafts project. (until 1962)
1962	Visiting student at Copenhagen's Royal Academy. (until 1964) Designer at architect Crete Jalk and at Architects Steen Eiler Rasmussens and Mogens Koch. (until 1964)
1965	UN consultant in Western Samoa. (until 1967) Teacher in cabinet making and furniture design. (until 1967) Measurment of 5,000 school children for the design of Scool Furniture. (until 1967)
1967	Drafted into Air Force. (until 1968)
1968	Designer at Arne Jacobsen's Studio. (until 1969) Furniture for Rødovre Public Library. (until 1969) Consultant to UNESCO Suden and Ceylon (School Furniture). (until 1969)
1970	Designer at Architects Jørgen Bo. Designer at Architect Bernt's. Furniture (Collasible chair) and Exhibitions. Cooperation with Design Forum.
1971	Awarded the Danish Furniture Prize. Teacher at School for Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen. (until 1973) Consultant to the technological Institute, Copenhagen. (until 1973) Research and testing of the application of the use of finger joints in furniture. (until 1973)
1973	Opens his own design studio.
1976	Examiner and Juror in furniture competitions at the School for Arts and Crtafts, Copenhagen. (until 1979) Furniture with finger joint for Karl Andersson and Söner. (until 1979) Sofa for Ivan Schlechter. (until 1979) Exhibition design for SE (until 1979)
1980	Development of a hydraulic mini tractor Linexa, Tranås. Chairs and sofa group for Erik Jorgensen A/S.
1981	Begins cooperation wth Pandul Lighting, Copenhagen. School furniture and Hotel furniture for Stora Hotel , Jönköping.
1982	Begins cooperation with Børge Schiang. Furniture for residential and contract use.
1983	Design of Arts & Crafts Summer Exhibition at Marienlyst Castle. Represented at the State Art Exhibition with lighting, furniture and letter trays.
1984	Appointed Chairman of the Danish State Art Foundation. Committee for the Arts, Crafts, Industrial and furniture design. (until 1986)
1986	Awarded the Annual Prize from both the Danish Council of Arts and Crafts and the Danish Design Council. Visiting Professor to the Department of Industrial Design, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Proto Type Bicycle: purchased by The Danish State Art Foundation.
1987	Appointed Professor to The Department of furniture and spatial Art, Danish Design Council, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Art.
1989	Design of the interior at Frederiksborg Castle.
1990	Design of Office Furniture MH Stålmøbler A/S.
1991	Died.
1995	Commerorative Exhibition at the Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen. Exhinition Designer Niels Fagerholt.