ALHAUS Magazine: Disrupting Nordic Design [Interview & Article]
From the celestial texture of a ceramic jug to the knots particular to Finnish wood, ÅBEN founder David Harrigan is vocal about his passion for Scandi design.
A self-proclaimed design anorak, ÅBEN’s founder David Harrigan has an unparalleled fervour for furniture. He is endlessly affable (for a former media lawyer) and his thoughts move so fast that no topic is safe for long, as we jump from the troubles of isolation and missing pub pints to Dieter Rams and the rings of Saturn. His lifelong passion for furniture design is even evident via the Google Hangouts screen we use for our interview, as he sits in the light-filled office of his redecorated Victorian house, with crisp white walls, a Tage pendant light and a vintage Ercol daybed in the background.
Of his childhood, David explains creativity was always at the forefront of his mind. “As a kid, all my peers had posters of rugby or cricket players adorning their walls—I had a huge poster of an Eames DCW chair and the Vitra poster with 150 thumbnails of chairs. I was obsessed with chairs.”
Read the full interview in ALHAUS magazine.