24 oktober – 14 november 2025
Under the theme of transformation, the exhibition addresses furniture and design objects as instruments of change and challenges the boundaries of what furniture can be and become.
The sensuous exhibition provides food for thought, as furniture and design objects become instruments of change. The event is the first major exhibition to be staged in the transformed building on Thoravej 29 in Copenhagen’ North-West district.
Drawing on transformation as a concept and a design approach, the exhibitors have created furniture that challenges our notions of form, function and materiality. The exhibition invites the audience to experience how design can help transform environments, relations and societies and how furniture can connect past and present, idea and action, person and material.
As a building that is itself a symbol and a carrier of a story of change, Thoravej 29 forms a meaningful and visual setting for the exhibition. Today, Thoravej 29 serves as a gathering place for creativity and innovation. The vision behind the community Thoravej 29 and the building that houses it was to create an environment where different areas of expertise meet across professions to develop new ideas and solutions for societally transformative issues.
The visual setting for the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2025 is the joint creation of exhibition designers Liv Marie Rømer and g Kamma Rosa Schytte, graphic designers Anders Gerning and Tor S. Johannesen and photographer Peter Vinther. With visual techniques relating to dynamic and transformative qualities, this year’s theme is explored in a display that has the untraditional feature of transforming over the course of the exhibition.
Twice during the exhibition period, the exhibited furniture will be moved around and presented in new ways and compositions, thus appearing in a total of three set-ups. This change of display is intended to reflect the transformation potential of both the furniture and the spatial context and give the audience an opportunity to experience the exhibited furniture from varying perspectives and in new set-ups. The furniture will appear in closely spaced arrangements to highlight the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition and Thoravej 29 as strong collectives and present the furniture not just as individual pieces but as contrasting and interrelated objects.
The physical transformation in the exhibition will be closely related to graphic and photographic aspects, as varying typographic compositions and the playful division of words is combined with a unique use of the transition between negatives and colour photographs. In addition to a coherent and consistent use of colours and materials, the visual expression draws on familiar elements from the association’s rich archive that are interpreted and transformed to engage with the contemporary context.
For more than 40 years, the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition has been a platform for experimental, innovative furniture design and dialogue between designers, cabinetmakers and audience. This year is no exception.
