Yesterday was Anne’s last day at the Royal Danish Academy, and with it my last...

Yesterday was Anne’s last day at the Royal Danish Academy, and with it my last chance to visit the Academy’s “secret” chair study collection. For the first time, I had the opportunity to sit in artist Gunnar Aagaard Andersen’s extraordinary polyurethane foam chair from 1964. I have admired this work ever since my student days. The same is true of Gerrit Rietveld’s chair. Anne was celebrated with a…