Hans Olsen was an architect/industrial designer born in Denmark, 1919. The beginning of his career was spent as a cabinetmaker and in his 30’s he decided to go study at the Royal Danish Academy under Kaare Klint.
Olsen experimented with design and materials in effort to achieve maximum comfort while his contemporaries like Borge Mogensen, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner embraced the “Klint” school of modernism.