Kirsten Visdal Creates the Visdal transformed Le Fumoir Room
Amy Duong — January 7, 2025 — Art & Design
Designer and curator Kirsten Visdal is the creative behind the Visdal transformed Le Fumoir room, which is a former smoking room at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. It is filled with Norwegian furniture, sculptures, and art objects to showcase work from the culture. The project is led by DOGA, which stands for Design and Architecture Norway.
Cecilie Molvær Jørgensen of DOGA explained that the goal was to bring attention to the unique qualities of Norwegian design, noting "This was a wonderful opportunity to showcase Norwegian design in a brand new way and to create something unexpected. Normally Norwegian design is put in the same category as Scandinavian design – blond wood, white, minimalistic, functionalistic – but Le Fumoir gave us the opportunity to show it is so much more than that. It can be eclectic, playful, colourful, soft, curvy and maximalistic."
Image Credit: Studio Dreyer+Hensley
Cecilie Molvær Jørgensen of DOGA explained that the goal was to bring attention to the unique qualities of Norwegian design, noting "This was a wonderful opportunity to showcase Norwegian design in a brand new way and to create something unexpected. Normally Norwegian design is put in the same category as Scandinavian design – blond wood, white, minimalistic, functionalistic – but Le Fumoir gave us the opportunity to show it is so much more than that. It can be eclectic, playful, colourful, soft, curvy and maximalistic."
Image Credit: Studio Dreyer+Hensley
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