Before her education at the School of Arts, Crafts and Design, Grete Jalk (1920-2006) trained as a cabinetmaker and experimented widely with industrial furniture and products. She was a pupil of Kaare Klint. One of her major preoccupations was the exploration of laminated wood—this curiosity led to her 1963 Bow Chair, which is bent in only one plane, but the two connected parts make the chair appear to be stressed to the point of breaking. Photo 15 of 15 in Furniture by Amanda Dameron

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Before her education at the School of Arts, Crafts and Design, Grete Jalk (1920-2006) trained as a cabinetmaker and experimented widely with industrial furniture and products. She was a pupil of Kaare Klint. One of her major preoccupations was the exploration of laminated wood—this curiosity led to her 1963 Bow Chair, which is bent in only one plane, but the two connected parts make the chair appear to be stressed to the point of breaking.