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Kai Kristiansen (Denmark, 1929) is a Danish furniture designer. Kai Kristiansen began his training as a cabinetmaker and went on to study under the famous architect and furniture designer Kaare Klint at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Read the full biography

Kai Kristiansen (Denmark, 1929) is a Danish furniture designer. Kai Kristiansen began his training as a cabinetmaker and went on to study under the famous architect and furniture designer Kaare Klint at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Kai Kristiansen opened his office in Copenhagen in 1955, a space he shared with his contemporary Illum Wikkelsø in the 1970s. In 2016 Kristiansen teamed up with Great Dane Furniture, an Australian importer of Danish furniture, to launch a reissue of his designs popularized in the mid-1950s.