Ditte Hammerstrøm

Ever since her graduation from the Danish Design School in 2000, Ditte Hammerstrøm has been introducing an artistic approach to design, challenging the traditional field. Her attention to detail and storytelling has been noticed. Conceptual, sometimes even cartoonish, Hammerstrøm’s furniture preserves the clean lines and simple forms of traditional Danish interior design, while subtly subverting some of its long-accepted tenets. Her feminine approach can also be underlined, as expressed by Mette Strømgaard Dalby, the former director of Trapholt Museum: “The feminine decorations and colors are repeated in several of Ditte Hammerstrøm’s pieces of furniture and help mark the fact that a generation of younger female designers have taken the lead with vengeance. Without tending towards too many clichés the women’s entry on the Danish design scene has created a new departure with regards to decoration.”

Ditte Hammerstrøm established her own design studio in Copenhagen in 2000. She has exhibited internationally, and her work is housed in several important collections including the Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark; and the Vandalorum Museum of Art & Design, Sweden. In 2011, she received the Finn Juhl prize and is the holder of several other prestigious awards, including “Walk the Plank Award” (2008). Hammerstrøm has exhibited in major design exhibitions around the world, notably her solo exhibition at the Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, in 2008.