Lyngby Porcelæn

Why it is renowned

Lyngby Porcelæn is best known for the Lyngby vase, a white cylinder with vertical flutes first made in the 1930s, when most vases still carried painted ornament.¹ The house made the first thermal cup in porcelain.² Its Thermodan series by Axel Brüel won silver at the Milan Triennale and was shown at the Louvre in Paris in 1958.³⁴ The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a Brüel porcelain coffee pot of 1957, bought in 1961.⁵⁴

VisitDenmark, the national tourist board, names vases from Kähler and Lyngby Porcelæn among the homeware found in Danish living rooms.⁶

The story

The wholesaler Holst & Knudsen, which had taken over the decorating workshop Kjøbenhavns Porcellains Maleri in 1924, founded the factory in Kongens Lyngby in 1936 to make porcelain tableware and vases.² It set up in a former sugar refinery, after currency restrictions in the 1930s had all but stopped imports of cheap German porcelain.³ The Dan-Ild service followed in the mid-1950s, and Esben Klint designed a porcelain table lamp for the factory under a Le Klint shade.³ When the restrictions ended around 1960 and foreign factories automated, the hand-finished production could not keep up; the factory closed in 1969 and its buildings were torn down.³

The name returned in 2012, and the Rosendahl Design Group bought the brand in 2016.² Since then it has reissued the Lyngby vase and Dan-Ild and added new ranges, among them Rhombe, drawn from an old service in the factory's archive.²⁷

What to know it by

• Lyngby vase¹White cylindrical porcelain vase with vertical flutes, 1930s
• Thermodan³1958Axel BrüelInsulating porcelain tableware, handleless cups
• Rhombe²Tableware and vases after a service in the factory archive
• Rhombe Color⁸Stilleben (Ditte Reckweg, Jelena Schou Nordentoft)Rhombe pieces in eight colours at launch
• Lyngby Tura⁹Philip Bro LudvigsenSculptural vases