Kay Bojesen | Songbird Flora (Limited Edition - Year Bird 2024)
The Songbird of the Year 2024 is called Flora!
Kay Bojesen has taken care of the design, but people chose the colours. Welcome to Flora, Songbird of the Year 2024, ready to fly onto your shelf and become part of the collection. With her bright pink personality, she won the vote for Songbird of the Year 2024, and you can't help but smile when you look at her.
In Greek mythology, Flora was the goddess of spring and flowers, and her inspiration from the world of flowers is evident in the choice of colours – right down to the beak, which is like the yellow centre of a flower. Flora is produced in a limited edition and engraved with the year.
The Songbird of the Year 2024 is slightly smaller than the classic Songbird, but just as charming. Just like the other Kay Bojesen songbirds, it is made from FSC®-certified beech wood, which guarantees that the trees used in production are planted, cultivated and felled responsibly.
Flora is naturally hand-finished and painted in beautiful colours with great precision and skill. The craftsmanship quality typical of Kay Bojesen’s figurines shines through clearly – just like Flora’s charming personality.
Specifications
- Made from solid beech wood (FSC-certified)
- Made in a limited number and engraved with "2024"
- Manufactured and painted by hand
- Colour: rose and pink
- H12.5cm x W6cm x D5cm
- Designed in Denmark
Designer
Silversmith and designer Kay Bojesen had a very special talent. He was able to bring wood to life, and he became world-famous for creating wooden toys that had soul and an impish sense of humour. With more than 2000 pieces to his name, Kay Bojesen was one of Denmark's most prolific artisans in the 20th century. He is best known for his playful and cheerful monkeys, royal life guards and other wooden toys, but his wide-ranging production also includes jewellery, cutlery, teapots and silver goblets.
Kay Bojesen graduated as a silversmith in 1910 after completing his apprenticeship with silversmith Georg Jensen. As one of the first Danish artisans to do so, he embraced functionalism. He was among the pioneers who organised Den Permanente association – a cooperative of artists that included a shop and exhibition space which over the decades came to represent the best in Danish and Scandinavian design.1919 became the start of a new era for Kay Bojesen. He got married and his son Otto was born. This sparked Kay Bojesen's imagination and fascination for children, toys and wood and brought back memories of his own childhood when his father (the publisher Ernst Bojesen – the publisher of the Danish satirical annual Blæksprutten (The Octopus)) cut wooden figures for him and encouraged his children to be creative, imaginative and playful.
