When designer and cabinetmaker Anker Bak opens the exhibition The Design We Hide Away, it is with a focus on an overlooked category of design: the furniture and tools we encounter in life’s most vulnerable situations.
The exhibition presents two products developed by Anker Bak and produced by OneCollection: the Hiro lounge chair and the Yōbi pill box.
Yobi Pill Box has seven compartments, making it easy to organize pills or dietary supplements into doses.
The Hiro Chair is a furniture series designed for care environments and is available in both a high and a low version.
They are shown in collaboration with Dignity Design, founded by Anker Bak and strategist Jonas Sølberg, with the ambition of bringing aesthetic quality, intuition, and material understanding into life stages traditionally defined by function alone.
“Denmark has a strong design tradition, but we have mainly designed for the active phases of life. With Dignity Design, we focus on vulnerable situations – because this is not a niche, but an unavoidable part of being human,” says Anker Bak.
The exhibition The Design We Hide Away unfolds across six interconnected rooms, placing furniture, assistive devices, ceremonial objects, and personal items in dialogue. It reflects a growing societal reality: longer lives, more people living with disabilities, and increasingly complex care needs. Dignity Design aims to develop solutions centered on identity, dignity, and human needs.
For OneCollection, the collaboration extends its design philosophy, emphasizing that the need for beauty and dignity does not disappear with age or disabilities.
Images and content courtesy of OneCollection.
Designer Anker Bak
Anker Bak is a cabinetmaker and designer focused on solving everyday challenges through functional, long-lasting design. Rooted in the Danish design tradition, he combines craftsmanship, material understanding, and human needs. Anker Bak has received several awards, including the Finn Juhl Prize, the Wegner Prize, the Cabinetmakers’ Prize, and the Inga and Ejvind Kold Christensen Award.
https://ankerbak.com/
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