Working wonders
The Danish architect and designer Hans Bølling is 88 years old and an enthusiastic lover of life. But most of all, he is a lover of his wife. ‘My inspiration for everything I do all comes back to her,’ says Bølling as he points to Søs, his partner of 60 years. They are drinking white wine in the living room of the home they have shared for as many decades – a single-storey pre-fab house that Bølling has extended seven times, in Charlottenlund, a coastal suburb north of Copenhagen.
Displayed proudly on tabletops, forgotten on top of a stack of books on a windowsill, and scattered across shelves in Bølling’s home studio, sit prototypes and early models of dogs and ducks and dopey little dudes; exotic birds roost here and there, a shapely mermaid emerges a few times over. Stray
