Anker Bak and OneCollection put Dignity on the Agenda during 3daysofdesign
When designer and cabinetmaker Anker Bak opens the exhibition The Design We Hide Away, the focus is on an often overlooked category of design: the furniture and tools we encounter in life’s most vulnerable situations.
The exhibition presents a selection of designs by Anker Bak, including the Hiro Chair and the Yōbi Pill Box manufactured by OneCollection. The designs are presented in collaboration with the newly established platform Dignity Design, founded by Anker Bak and strategist Jonas Sølberg. The platform aims to bring aesthetic quality, intuitive use, and material awareness into phases of life traditionally defined by function alone.
“Denmark has a strong design tradition, but we have mainly designed for the active phases of life. With Dignity Design, we focus on vulnerable situations – because this is not a niche, but an unavoidable part of being human,” says Anker Bak.
The exhibition The Design We Hide Away unfolds across six interconnected rooms, placing furniture, assistive devices, ceremonial objects, and personal items in dialogue. It reflects a growing societal reality: longer lives, more people living with disabilities, and increasingly complex care needs. Dignity Design aims to develop solutions centered on identity, dignity, and human needs.
For OneCollection, the collaboration extends the company’s design philosophy by emphasizing that the need for aesthetic quality and dignity does not disappear with age or disability.
The Hiro Chair is designed for care environments where ergonomics and durability typically dominate. It integrates function openly into a light, domestic expression, available in multiple variants for different needs. The Yōbi Pill Box is a stackable wooden organizer with seven compartments and a rotating top, combining practical function with a calm, tactile presence in everyday life.
The project challenges the idea that meaningful design belongs only to certain stages of life, marking a new direction where aesthetics, identity, and dignity remain central – even in situations of care and dependence.
Yobi Pill Box has seven compartments, making it easy to organize pills or dietary supplements into doses.
The Hiro Chair is a furniture series designed for care environments and is available in both a high and a low version.
About Anker Bak and Dignity Design
Anker Bak is a cabinetmaker and designer dedicated to addressing everyday challenges through functional, long-lasting design. Rooted in the Danish design tradition, he combines craftsmanship, material expertise, and a deep understanding of human needs. He has received several awards, including the Finn Juhl Prize, the Wegner Prize, the Cabinetmaker Prize, and the Inga and Ejvind Kold Christensen Award. He is also behind the exhibition De Møbler Vi Mangler.
Dignity Design is a new collaborative platform dedicated to advancing dignity through design. The platform develops products, spaces, and projects, and brings together stakeholders from design, research, health and social care, and industry. It strengthens the role of design in addressing future challenges within care and welfare systems.
At the exhibition The Design We Hide Away, visitors can experience several of Anker Bak’s designs, all created with a focus on identity, dignity, and quality of life.
Detail of the low version of the Hiro Chair.
The Hiro Chair in the high and the low version.
Funiture Featured in this Project
Click through the models below to explore material options and detailed specifications.
Hiro Chair
Design by Anker Bak
Hiro Chair Low
Design by Anker Bak