Meet The Designer Behind Dansk’s ’70s-Era Fish Trivet
The story behind the Dansk trivet is actually a fashion one: Gunnar Cyrén, an award-winning Swedish designer responsible for some of the world’s most coveted flatware, would’ve never worked with Dansk if he hadn’t walked into a Parisian hotel wearing his worst corduroy suit.
Days prior to arriving at the hotel, some time during the summer of 1969, Gunnar was in the midst of a family vacation in Sweden’s Skåne county when the phone rang. On the other line was Dansk founder Ted Nierenberg—again.