Audo Copenhagen Everyday Icons
Introducing Audo Copenhagen’s Everyday Icons, a new concept that honours inclusive designs with enduring cultural relevance. This unfolding collection presents carefully-considered Audo furniture, lighting and objects bearing the hallmarks of icons: exceeding form and function to engage people emotionally and culturally.
As truly great design is limitless, Everyday Icons celebrates pieces that transcend time. Past classics are re-imagined in fresh materials and colours while new products emerge to become beloved aspects of daily life for generations to come.
“Everyday Icons are more than design objects - they are conversations between generations and celebrations of heritage.” Design & Brand Director, Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen.
The collection represents talented past and present designers who are renowned for creating work of lasting significance. Either heritage or contemporary, their distinctive pieces share a sense of poetry and quiet sophistication that not only suit, but elevate, any setting.
Everyday Icons The Tired Man Chair Edition
The Everyday Icons edition of The Tired Man Lounge Chair thoughtfully reinterprets a beloved Danish design. Its generous proportions are refreshed with modern upholstery and finishes, adding a new chapter to the rich legacy of this 1930s icon.
Originally designed in 1935 by Flemming Lassen and first unveiled at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition that same year, The Tired Man is distinguished by its sculptural, streamlined form and inviting winged backrest. While emblematic of 1930s aesthetics, the voluminous yet minimalist chair remains a celebrated Danish design icon 90 years after its conception — an heirloom cherished across generations.
The award-winning design represents an exceptional level of craftsmanship and comfort that has remained relevant for decades. Lassen’s original, still available in Audo’s collection, was upholstered in sheepskin, while this new Everyday Icons edition introduces a subtle material modernisation. Crafted by renowned Italian textile maker Limonta, a refined white Baena boucle upholstery encases the entire chair, lending a fresh, contemporary feel while retaining comfort. The contrast between the crisp fabric and the chair’s dark-stained oak legs creates a sophisticated yet highly versatile piece.
“The embodiment of cosy comfort and timeless aesthetics, Flemming Lassen’s The Tired Man lounge chair is Danish design at its best.”
Flemming Lassen
Credited for his role in bringing functionalism to Denmark, Flemming Lassen was an architect and designed noted for his exacting craftsmanship and naïve expression. Lassen drew much of his inspiration from the architect Mies van der Rohe and the tenets of the Bauhaus artistic movement —a less is more approach focused on form, function and novel materials counterbalanced with human needs. His original and distinctive designs with timeless silhouettes still resonate today.
Everyday Icons Knitting Chair Edition
For the launch of Everyday Icons, Audo reveals a special edition of Ib Kofod-Larsen’s highly collectible Knitting Chair. Designed in 1951, the chair is known for its exceptional craftsmanship and ergonomic comfort, with a unique open-arm shape that accommodates the movement of the arms when knitting. The chair is given a modern expression that preserves its cherished, midcentury legacy while adapting key elements for today: it is a modernist classic in new materials.
“The Knitting Chair embodies the perfect balance of form, function and artistic expression, making it a true design icon. Its sculptural silhouette makes an immediate visual statement, while its thoughtful design — like the open armrests that accommodate natural movement — prioritises comfort and usability.” Design & Brand Director, Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen.
With Everyday Icons, Audo invites everyone to own a piece of design history — to access special editions that honour both tradition and innovation; that symbolise the values of their era while adding beauty and meaning to the everyday.
Ib Kofod-Larsen
Architect Ib Kofod-Larsen (1921-2003) had a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s when Danish design was flourishing across the world, transforming the simple and straightforward into unusually elegant furniture.
His furniture is sophisticated and well-proportioned with beautiful silhouettes and sculptural, organic lines and curves.