PLAY FOR KEEPS
Jun 09, 2022
3 minutes
PORTRAIT: LUKE + NIK
WRITER: TF CHAN
‘When men become old, they often buy a Porsche. I bought a lathe,’ recalls Danish architect and designer Hans Bølling, now 91 and as prolific as ever. A decade since he acquired it, the lathe continues to sit in his home workshop in Charlottenlund – a low wooden structure with skylights, packed with tools, materials and prototypes that point to a lifelong dedication to designing and making. Or rather, to playing, as Bølling likes to say. For all the wisdom that the years have brought,
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