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Relaxation space, Peder Paars, DSB, Kay Kørbing and Niels Kryger, 1985
Nørreport Station, circa 1975
The DSB ferries in which DCC was installed were the floating manifestations of a wider corporate ‘Design Programme’
which had begun in the early-1970s, instigated and coordinated by the railway’s mercurial design director, Jens Nielsen. The programme extended to every aspect of DSB – from
office stationery and uniforms to trains and stations, all of
which were given a coordinated architectural and graphic
image. Having found that DCC ceilings brought calm order
and elegance to the interiors of DSB’s ferries, Nielsen decided also to use DCC for the upgrading of the busy Copenhagen inner city underground station of Nørreport, where the
‘heavy duty’ version of the strips with large perforations
were attached to the walls along the four railway tracks,
opposite the platforms. Later, each of these installations
was decorated with abstract patterning devised by four different Danish modern artists – Tonning Rasmussen,
Mogens Lohmann, Karl-Aage Riget and Ole Schwalbe –
giving each track a particular, hopefully memorable atmosphere. DCC panels subsequently were installed in other
renovated stations, in ticket offices, travel centres and DSB
offices all over Denmark.
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