Anker Bak is one of the new designers furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn is collaborating with and we caught up with him to find out more.

Danish designer Anker Bak is one of a crop of new designers third-generation furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn is collaborating with to create new products to sit alongside their iconic back catalogue. Design Milk caught up with him to find out more…

What is the most important thing to know about you"
Things take time, and that is the mantra I try to live by. I try to be patient and not hurry things. That comes naturally to me now, but for ten years I struggled with it ? maybe it is learned. I try to create so many designs but the goal for me right now is to stop and live out in the fresh air for three months, then I feel I can design something again. I have bought a small camper van, so I am going to a yoga retreat in Sweden then to Amsterdam for a dancing trip, then I don’t know. I just want to sit out in the air and draw some furniture. So things do take time you can’t hurry them up. There are thing you can hurry, but to find the right solution for a design you need to take your time. But I would never just lay back and wait for it to come to me, you have to be open and looking and observing, so I am taking a trip in the van to do exactly that.
What?s your earliest memory of being creative"
Well I am dyslexic so I was always using my hands. I am from a town near Legoland, so I alwa...