{"id":12490,"date":"2021-10-31T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:58:23","slug":"gajanan-upadhyaya-the-father-of-indian-furniture-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12490","title":{"rendered":"**  Gajanan Upadhyaya: The father of Indian furniture design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In 1966, he left for Copenhagen to train in furniture design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, worked with Poul Kj\u00e6rholm, and a host of other designers during the golden period of Danish design.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, when I last met Gajanan Upadhyaya, he was as full of enthusiastic energy as in the 1980s when I was a student at the institute. He quizzed me in that inimitable way of his, \u2018But you are not a furniture designer, you are a communication designer, why have you come to ask me about my chairs?\u2019. As quickly and without waiting for my reply, he proceeded to explain the details of the particular chair he was holding up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1966, he left for Copenhagen to train in furniture design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, worked with Poul Kj\u00e6rholm, and a host of other designers during the golden period of Danish design. In 2018, when I last met Gajanan Upadhyaya, he was as full of enthusiastic energy as in the 1980s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Gajanan Upadhyaya: The father of Indian furniture design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-business-economy","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12493,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions\/12493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}