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Nothing is harder to lose than a bad reputation, as a group of long-overlooked Dainsh furniture designers would probably agree. The furnishings and housewares that emerged from twentieth-century Scandinavia--particularly out of Denmark--had an enormous impact on modernist design. Whether working with fine rosewood or humbler materials such as bent plywood, Scandinavians had an unmatched talent for marrying elegant, novel, and sculptural form with perfect functionality and exquisite craftsmanship. The Danes, for example, could draw on a tradition of painstaking fabrication that dated to the 1550s (1) as well as on studies of the proportions, purposefulness, and ...