Designers

Aage Petersen
Aage Petersen
Aage Petersen was a Danish sculptor and designer. After training as a sculptor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he created a large number of naturalistic works of art, including his most famous sculpture, the Faske Monument, in 1933. He also designed many table and floor lamps, in particular for the Danish society Le Klint.
Aino AALTO
Aino AALTO

Aino Aalto (1894 - 1949) is a famous Finnish architect and designer. She studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, as did her husband, the famous Alvar Aalto. In 1923, she went to work for the office of Gunnar A. Wahlroos in Jyväskylä, then left this position the following year to collaborate with Alvar Aalto.

This marked the beginning of a long and productive partnership. In 1935, together with Alvar Aalto, Maire Gullichesen and Nils-Gustav Hahl, Aino Aalto founded Artek, an internationally renowned furniture and lighting company. She played an important role in the company and served as general manager for Artek from 1941 to 1949. Aino Alto's career as a furniture and interior designer, architect and photographer is best known for her work in glass. Among her most famous works is the Aino Aalto glassware line, created in 1932 under the name Bölgeblick, which means "water rings."

Alfred Homann
Alfred Homann

Danish Alfred Homann (1948–2022) was an award-winning architect and designer who conceived museums, railway stations and other public buildings as well as private homes during his career. Known for his unadorned and functional style, Homann designed not only buildings but also furniture – he collaborated with the likes of prestigious furniture brand Carl Hansen & Søn. Homann also designed several lighting models, but exclusively for lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen.

Alfred Homann & Ole V.Kjaer
Alfred Homann & Ole V.Kjaer
The collaboration between Danish designers Alfred Homann (born 1948) and Ole V.Kjaer gave birth to the famous Nyhavn lamps in 1980.
Alfredo Häberli
Alfredo Häberli
Alfredo Häberli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964. He moved to Switzerland in 1977, at the age of 13 and later studied at the Zurich School of Design. In 1993, he set up his own design agency and worked for famous Scandinavian and European companies such as Alias, Camper, Iittala, Kvadrat, Luceplan, Moroso and Volvo. His works of art and household objects unite tradition, innovation and sense of humor, and were designed to be used rather than looked at. He notably designed a range of colorful tableware, named Origo.
Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto studied Architecture between 1916-1921 at the Technical University of Helsinki. Opened his first architectural office in Jyväskylä in 1923. Married the designer, Aino Marsio in 1924. Founded Artek, a furniture design company in 1935 with his colleagues Harry and Marie Gullichsen, With his innovative designs and natural forms he changed the course of design towards organic Modernism. Designed in very different scales, buildings, town plans, furniture, glassware, jewellery and other forms of art. More information on http://alvaraaltodesign.wordpress.com.
Anderssen & Voll
Anderssen & Voll

Anderssen & Voll have received several awards for their work; including the Wallpaper Award, the Red Dot Award, the IF Award and the Honorary Award for Best Design in Norway.

Andreas Bergsaker
Andreas Bergsaker

Andreas Ferdinand Riise Bergsaker (b. 1990) is a Norwegian product designer based in Copenhagen. He graduated with a master degree in Product design from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA), in June 2015.

His work covers different everyday objects, designed for product longevity and generations to come. His designs are rooted in exploration of material and shape, and referencing cultural heritage with emphasis on traditional craftsmanship, industrial production processes and tactile qualities. His work has led to exhibitions in London, Milan, New York, Oslo and Stockholm

Anna Ehrner
Anna Ehrner
Anna Ehrener, Swedish designer born in 1948, first specialized in ceramics while studying at the National College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Fascinated by glass design, she however joined the Sweedish company Kosta Boda in 1974. In 1979, she resumed her studies at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, where she later taught until 1995. Her designs can be distinguished by their simple and clear shape, as well as by the delicate swivels of color trapped inside the glass.
Anna et Ditlev Sibast
Anna et Ditlev Sibast

Anna and Ditlev Sibast carry forward the legacy of the renowned Danish cabinetmaker and designer Helge Sibast. In 2012, Helge Sibast’s grandson Ditlev and his wife Anna relaunched Sibast Furniture, a traditional Danish furniture brand whose history dates back to 1908. Sibast Furniture’s collections are based on the original designs of Helge Sibast with updated models designed by Anna and Ditlev Sibast. Their high-quality wooden furniture combine Helge Sibast’s distinctive style with modern Scandinavian spirit.

Anna von Schewen & Björn Dahlström
Anna von Schewen & Björn Dahlström

Interior designer Anna von Schewen and industrial designer Björn Dahlström are a married couple who work together and apart. For String Furniture they designed the office range Works and extended the String System and String Pocket by creating new parts and clever accessories. Thanks to Anna and Björn, today’s range of String products functions in all sorts of rooms and contexts.

Anne Boysen
Anne Boysen

Anne Boysen is a contemporary danish designer. She has established her own design studio, Anne Boysen Studio, in 2012. The studio is located outside Copenhagen. Anne Boysen is known for her furniture designs and home decoation objects.

Anne Mette Jensen & Morten Ernst
Anne Mette Jensen & Morten Ernst
Anne-Mette Jensen (born 1969) and Morten Ernst (born 1964) started their professional partnership in 1994 on the occasion of Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabriks 40th anniversary where the company arranged a design competition. Anne-Mette Jensen & Morten Ernst won with their chaise long for two people called Waves. At the time they were still students at The Academy of Fine Arts but since their graduation they have worked together as a professional team and solved a long number of assignments for Danish furniture manufacturers.
Anton Björsing
Anton Björsing

Contemporary Swedish designer Anton Björsing, born in 1983, trained in craft and furniture design at Stenebyskolan and Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies in Stockholm, where he graduated in 2012. A long-term perspective is an essential factor for the designer, who sees his curiosity, knowledge of materials and ability to rise to a given challenge as key elements of his practice.

Antonio Citterio
Antonio Citterio
Antonio Citterio is an Italian architect and designer, born in 1950. In 1972, he set up his own design studio specialized in architecture and interior design projects. After he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Milan, he collaborated with a number of famous companies including Arclinea, B&B Italia, Flexform, Kartell and Vitra. In 1999, he founded “Antonio Citterio and Partners”, a design, architecture and graphics studio, specialized in long-term international projects. His most famous work as a designer includes the beautiful Citterio cutlery.
Antonio Citterio & Toan Nguyen
Antonio Citterio & Toan Nguyen
Designer Antonio Citterio (born in Meda, Italy in 1950) and Toan Nguyen (born in Paris in 1969) collaborated for over 10 years and worked for companies such as Vitra, Kartell, B&B Itlaia and Iittala, a Finnish brand for which they notably designed a wine decanter in mouth blown glass in 2004.
Anu Moser
Anu Moser
Anu Moser, born in 1945 is a Swedish artist specialized in the restoration of ceramics. Also a talented designer, she created many innovative products, with organic designs. Her creations are regularly exhibited around the world, but their simplicity and softness particularly appeal to the Japanese. In 2001, intrigued by the combination of light and design, she drew the famous Moser pendant for Louis Poulsen, which shape was inspired by a drop of water.
Arne Hovmand-Olsen
Arne Hovmand-Olsen

Arne Hovmand-Olsen had the world in mind, both before and after the 1950s, when he became one of Denmark's renowned furniture designers. A farmer's son and aesthete by nature, he began as a cabinetmaker's apprentice, before studying furniture design and pursuing his passion for visual composition and furniture design. In 1944, Arne Hovmand-Olsen opened his own design firm, where he combined the details of classic craftsmanship with innovative, modern design. He was a pioneer, not only in the field of architecture, but also in exporting designer furniture to meet the great interest abroad. In consultation with Arne Hovmand-Olsen's family, Warm Nordic continues the legacy of this great furniture designer and will regularly launch other classics from the House of Arne Hovmand-Olsen.

Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen

As one of Denmark's most gifted architects and designers, Arne Jacobsen's designs demonstrate the most personal and successful interpretations of the international functionalism movement. His quest for revolutionary ideas and the utmost perfection led to the creation of many famous designs, including The Swan, The Egg, and "3107". His furnishing designs can be seen today in fashionable homes and Copenhagen's Royal Hotel.

Arne Vodder
Arne Vodder

Arne Vodder was a leading light of what might be called the “second generation” of forward-thinking 20th-century Danish furniture designers — those who, following in the footsteps of Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl and others, first applied the skills, traditions and philosophical tenets of Danish craftsmanship to a modern furniture idiom.

     As a graduate student in architecture trained by Finn Juhl, Vodder made his mark in the 1960s, when modern design had gained wide acceptance, particularly in the business world. Accordingly, many of Vodder’s chairs are quiet in form — projecting an air of sturdiness and strength, rather than avant-garde styling.

     Vodder’s aesthetic flair was very pronounced in his cabinets and storage pieces — sideboards, bookcases, credenzas and buffets. In such pieces, Vodder liked to play with asymmetry. His bookcases often have a seemingly random array of variously sized shelves and nooks. A typical Vodder sideboard might have four sections, each different in purpose and look: an open stack of vertical shelves, and other cupboards covered with sliding panels in contrasting colored laminates and wood veneers. As you will see from the works on these pages, Arne Vodder had a sense of what kind of design was appropriate for which space: sobriety in the boardroom; playfulness at home.

Aurélien Barbry
Aurélien Barbry

Aurélien Barbry graduated with Honor from Ecole Camondo Paris as an industrial and interior designer. He start his career by working with architect Jean Nouvel. Since then Aurélien has worked on many different interior and design projects, his clients include, Georg Jensen, Le Klint, Normann Copenhagen, among others.
Today he is based in Copenhagen where he continues to work on challenging design..

Bent Karlby
Bent Karlby

Bent Karlby (1912-1998) was a Danish designer best known for his lighting fixtures: he is considered one of the most prolific and versatile Danish lighting designers of the 20th century. Many of his creations are based on various organic forms that indirect light adorns with details: for example, perforations slightly filter the light to make it warm. Towards the end of his career, however, he also designed several functional lighting fixtures with a strong geometric aesthetic. Bent Karlby worked with the Danish brand LYFA for more than 40 years and is probably best known for the lights he designed for the firm.

Bernt Santesson
Bernt Santesson

Life is his greatest inspiration and the Troll Church near Nibe, Denmark, his favourite place. And he believes that it is easier to treat people with courtesy than the other way around. Bernt Santesson was born in Aalborg, Denmark, and is a North Jutlander in the best sense of the word. Thorough, calm, and friendly.

Bertil Vallien
Bertil Vallien
Bertil Vallien is the most famous Swedish glass artist and designer in the world. His creations are exhibited in museums around the world. After he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Stockholm, he joined the Swedish company Kosta Boda specialized in decorative glass. One of his most famous creations is the bestselling collection of Chateau glasses.
Blum & Balle
Blum & Balle

Henrik Blum (born 1960, Denmark) and Rune Balle Olesen (born 1957, Denmark).

Blum and Balle are industrial designers educated at the Danish Design School. Balle Olesen is also a qualified silversmith from Georg Jensen. Since 1996 Henrik and Rune have run the design company Blum & Balle. Their work methods are characterized by teamwork comprising several experts, such as technical specialists. At the same time they also find room for workplace specialists and information psychologists.

Blum & Balle designed products and design solutions for danish companies designed tables, chairs.... All of these pieces of furniture are excellent examples of how form and function may be united.

Bo Bonfils
Bo Bonfils
Bo Bonfils (born in 1941) is a Danish designer. After studying at the Danish School of Arts, Crafts and Design in Copenhaguen from 1958 to 1961, he founded his own business, in 1960. He then taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, before joining the world famous Silversmiths Georg Jensen, in 1984. One of his finest creations was the Bo-Bonfils cutlery set.
Bodil Kjær
Bodil Kjær

Bodil Kjær (born 11 March 1932 in Hatting near Horsens) is a Danish architect, furniture designer, professor and researcher, who has specialized in interior design and city planning. Today she is recognized above all for the flexible series of office furniture she designed in the 1960s.

Borge Mogensen
Borge Mogensen
From early on in his design career, Borge Mogensen cultivated a design philosophy based on creating classical, simple and highly functional furniture. His furnishings are strongly representative of true artisanship, while also incorporating the beauty and functionality of minimalist archetypes.
BOUROULLEC Erwan & Ronan
BOUROULLEC Erwan & Ronan
Ronan (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) are brothers and designers based in Paris. They have been working together for about fifteen years bonded by diligence and challenged by their distinct personalities. From designing spaces to furniture, taking on architectural projects to designing textile wall systems or comprehensive collections, the designers maintain experimental activity with Gallery kreo, which is also essential to the development of their work. Designs of the Bouroullecs are part of select international museums’ permanent collections such as the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Several monographic exhibitions have been devoted to their work and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris will be unveiling "Momentané", a new exhibition in the spring 2013.
BROBERG & RIDDERSTRÅLE
BROBERG & RIDDERSTRÅLE

Broberg & Ridderstråle is a design and architecture studio founded by Mats Broberg and Johan Ridderstråle. Both are interior architects and designers, and both graduated from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden in 2006. Mats Broberg and Johan Ridderstråle are creative collaborators based in Stockholm, Sweden, working in mixed media architecture and practical design.

Bruno Mathsson
Bruno Mathsson
Bruno Mathsson – Swedish and internationally recognized designer and architect. He was an advocate of simplicity, beauty and elegance in form, which also applied to the furniture he designed. Mathsson's furniture was innovative in technique as well as design, his production methods included the bending of laminated wood. Although his designs are from the 30s and 40s, his furniture is among the classic furniture of our time. In Denmark he designed the PH Superellipse Table Series in cooperation with Danish designer Piet Hein in 1968.
Bruno Rey
Bruno Rey

Bruno Rey was born in 1933 in Brugg, Switzerland. After an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker, he studied at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, where he attended classes with the pioneering designer Willy Guhl. He opened his own studio in 1968, working on an innovative chair design that was mass produced in 1971 by Dietiker in Stein am Rhein

Busk + Hertzog
Busk + Hertzog
Busk + Hertzog is a team of Danish designers, formed by Flemming Busk and Stephan Hertzog in 2000. Their minimalist and sculptural looking furniture has received many awards throughout the years, and in particular the prestigious Red Dot Awards, IF Awards and Good Design Awards. The Busk + Hertzog creations are characterized by a subtle mixture of vertical and horizontal lines, which form colorful geometric shapes.
Bykato
Bykato
byKATO is an award-winning, Danish design company dedicated to creating contemporary, highly usable products for everyday living. The company was established in 2010 by Karl Rüdiger Rossell and Tonny Glismand, with the byKATO name deriving from the two founders’ names. Karl and Tonny share a passion for designing honest, practical products that are within reach for almost anyone. “We aim to bridge the gap between commercial industrial design and high-quality craftsmanship, by using honest and justifiable materials and paying careful attention to even the tiniest detail.” “What we’re looking for is originality and authenticity – designs with character and a history, and we believe that this is the kind of craftsmanship that requires heart and soul as well as true passion for design.” In a word, byKATO’s mission is to do honest work.
Cecilie Manz
Cecilie Manz
Born 1972, lives and works in Copenhagen. After graduation from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - The School of Design in 1997 with additional studies at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Cecilie Manz founded her own studio in Copenhagen in 1998. Here, Cecilie Manz designs furniture, glass, lamps and related products, mainly for the home. In addition to her work with industrial products, her experimental prototypes and more sculptural one-offs make up an important part of her work and approach: “I view all my works as fragments of one big, ongoing story where the projects are often linked or related in terms of their idea, materials and aesthetics, across time and function.Some objects remain experiments or sculpted ideas, others are made more concrete and turn into functional tools. Recipient of the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal 2011, the Bruno Mathsson Prize 2009, Kunstpreis Berlin 2008, the Finn Juhl Architectural Prize 2007, The Furniture Prize 2007, the Three-Year Working Grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and several other grants. Works with Fritz Hansen, B&O, Fredericia Furniture, Nils Holger Moormann, Lightyears, Holmegaard, Muuto, Georg Jensen Damask, Böwer, Kähler and others.
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames

Architect, designer, moovie director, profesor, Charles Eames creates, in 1930, his own design studio of architecture. With Eero. Saarinen, he wins in 1940, the first prize of design competition of the MODERN ART MUSEUM of NY .

Together With his wife Ray, they contribute to create an up to date style of furniture, produced byHerman Miller firm , the lounge chair is one of their famoust and extremly confortable chair. They also work together as photographs and moovie directors. Since 1957, Charles & Ray Eames produced their furniture with VITRA firm .

This mythic couple of designers influenced many generations by their way of life and philosophy and an always up to date design.

Charlotte Høncke
Charlotte Høncke

It is the details that distinguish Charlotte Høncke's design.

One of the great passions of this Danish designer is upholstered furniture,

where original seams, a play of colors or a surprising shape arouse our curiosity.

In Charlotte Høncke's creations, the richness of details coexists.

Coexists with pure forms and lines, while taking functionality into account.

Charlotte Høncke immerses herself in the process of creating exquisite designs for the home,

capturing a sense of entity, comfort, and a timeless aesthetic, which not only

recalls history, but also embraces the spirit of our times.

Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm
Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm

Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm (b. 1977) established his own studio after graduating from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen in 2007. Halstrøm, based in Copenhagen, designs objects and furniture for projects, exhibitions, and brands such as Skagerak, Halle + and Design Nation. The Georg furniture she designed for Skagerak won her the Design + Award, the Red Dot Award, and the German Design Award. Elle Decoration Sweden named the collection "Bedroom Furniture of the Year" in 2016

Chris Martin
Chris Martin

Chris Martin is a young British designer. After working as an assistant for designer Jasper Morrison, he became a consultant in the furniture industry, before creating his own company, named Massproductions, with Swedish designer Magnus Elebäck, in 2009. Their first collection was a series of tables and chairs in steel wire, made by a computer-controlled bending machine.

Christian Dell
Christian Dell

Christian Dell was born in Offenbach am Main in Hesse. He completed the silver forging studies at the academy in 1911 and from 1912-13 he studied at the Saxon college of arts and crafts in Weimar. From 1922 to 1925 he worked as a foreman of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar where he was the man behind a highly innovative and pioneering style of design.

After World War II, Christian Dell manufactured silver goods and opened a jeweller´s shop in Wiesbaden in 1948, which he operated until 1955. He died in Wiesbaden in 1974.

Christian Troels
Christian Troels
Christian Troels graduated from Kolding School of Design in 2012.
Christian is a versatile designer, who masters both the conceptual and the technical aspects of designing. With his playful approach, he always strives to induce in his products those elements that make them differ from others.
After ending his studies ( in 2012), Christian was employed at the LEGO Group Concept Lab in Billund, working to create new concepts for LEGO.
Today Christian Troels has his own design studio in Copenhagen.
 
In 2014, Christian has designed MUTATIO for LE KLINT, a series of lamps inspired by transformation and simple geometry.
Christina Strand
Christina Strand
Christina Strand, who graduated from the Danish Design School, created the Strand + Hvass company with Niels Hvass in 1998. The form’s main focus is innovative lighting and furniture design.
Damian Williamson
Damian Williamson

Born in London in 1974. He graduated in 1998 from the Department of Product Design at Kingston University, London, with a thesis on "advanced materials". He started his activity working on several design projects, collaborating with a few design studios until, in 2004, he founded his design studio based in Stockholm. The office focuses on combining technological research and innovation. His projects are often characterized by a sense of inventiveness and a poetic quality.  Since 2005, he has been a guest lecturer in the industrial design course at LTH University in Sweden.

Danielle Siggerud
Danielle Siggerud

Danielle Siggerud is a Norwegian architect based in Copenhagen. She holds an MAA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark.

She established her Copenhagen studio in 2016.

Designit
Designit
Designit’s creations for Skagerak Denmark are characterized by their perfect combination of traditional Scandinavian design, and modern, minimalistic lines.
Ditlev Karsten
Ditlev Karsten

Ditlev Karsten is a graduate from The School of Arcitecture in Aarhus. Since 1984 he has operated his own studio. Ditlev Karsten has designed several tables, sideboards and cabinets for Brdr. Andersen.

Ditte Buus Nielsen
Ditte Buus Nielsen

Ditte Buus Nielsen studied industrial design at the Aalborg University, Denmark, and founded her own brand in 2013, working for renowned companies such as Skagerak, Bolia, bent Hansen since then. Wood and metals are mostly part of her designs, which are inspired by everyday life or design classics.

Doshi Levien
Doshi Levien

Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien met as design students at London’s Royal College of Art in 1995. Nipa, who was born in Mumbai and raised in Delhi, recalls being shaped by an appreciation for modernist design ideals and the importance of craft, while Jonathan, who was trained in fine cabinetmaking and industrial design, spent much of his childhood learning how things are made in his family’s factory in Scotland. 

Erik Hansen
Erik Hansen
Erik Hansen (1916 – 1982) is famous for his collaboration with Danish company Le Klint, which gave birth to the Sax wall lamp in 1952.
Erik Magnussen
Erik Magnussen
Erik Magnussen (1940) is a Danish ceramist and designer, specialized in industrial design. He is well-known for his collaboration with Stelton which resulted in a series of tableware in stainless steel, named Cylinda-line. He also designed furniture for Fritz Hansen, as well as his now famous oil and petrol lamps.
Erik Ole Jørgensen
Erik Ole Jørgensen
Erik Ole Jørgensen (1925 – 2002) is a Danish designer. After initially training as an upholsterer, he graduated from the Danish Design School in 1944. He not only designed furniture but also fabric as well as curtains. His simple, functional furniture not only earned him many awards but also a place among the best Danish furniture designers. His most famous design is perhaps the EJ 31 sofa, produced by Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik.
Erika Lagerbielke
Erika Lagerbielke
While studying industrial design at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Erika Lagerbielke won the coveted scholarship year at Orrefors in 1982. For over 20 years, she continued working with the company, and created various glass collections, either functional, decorative or sculptural. Rich color and bold shapes are characteristic of her designs.
Esben Klint
Esben Klint

Esben Klint was the son of Kaare Klint and, despite a broad education received at some of the leading architects of the time, he was very clearly his father's disciple. The lineage is especially expressed clearly in the designs he produced for church inventory and furniture he designed with Børge Mogensen.

Fabricius & Kastholm
Fabricius & Kastholm
Fabricius & Kastholm met each other at the School of Interior design, subsequently formed a partnership and together founded an architect's office in 1961. They specialised in designing furniture and single-family housing. Although they have individually created some interesting designs, it is in partnership that they have achieved their greatest successes. Their furniture is elegant, refined, and designed with an amazing sense of functionality, detail and quality.
Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl was the first Danish furniture designer to be recognized internationally. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and with Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen, but as a furniture designer he was self-taught, a fact he always emphasized. One of Finn Juhl’s most well-known pieces is the “Chieftain Chair”. Designed in 1949, it is a fine example of Juhl’s great idea of separating the sculpturally shaped seat and back from the wooden frame. The same principle is evident in the “45-Chair”, designed in 1945. Here, emphasis is laid on the elegantly shaped armrests.
Flemming Eskildsen
Flemming Eskildsen
Born in 1936, Flemming Eskildse is a Danish artist and silversmith. After training as a silversmith at Georg Jensen’s firm in 1962, he drew some of their most popular Christmas decorations, but also jewelry and other decorative items. He later worked for the Danish firm Royal Copenhaguen, where he created various tableware sets.
Frits Henningsen
Frits Henningsen

(1889-1965) was known as an uncompromising designer. He viewed quality craftsmanship as the most important element of his work, making it his focus when developing new furniture. Unlike other cabinetmakers, Henningsen always created his own furniture pieces - although his greatest desire was to be recognized as a cabinetmaker and not as a furniture designer.
n his designs, Henningsen was able to capture traditional expressions from other style periods and reinterpret them with a modern and organic flavor. He drew inspiration from earlier styles such as French Empire, Rococo, and British 17th-century furniture, much like one of the other great furniture designers of his day, Kaare Klint.
uring Frits Henningsen's lifetime, Carl Hansen & Son was one of only two furniture producers to be shown such trust.

Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen, born in 1866 in Denmark is one of the most famous and talented silversmiths of the 20th century. Even though he was the son of a knife grinder, he decided to begin training as a goldsmith at the age of 14. In 1904, he opened his own silversmith shop, in which he exhibited his work. He also took part in a number of international exhibitions, which allowed him to build a solid reputation. By 1935, he owned stores throughout the world.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) was one of the greatest Dutch architects and furniture designers of all times. Son of a carpenter, Rietveld was trained by his father as a cabinetmaker before setting up his own shop in 1917. By 1919, he had embarked upon a career in architecture and joined the ’De Stijl’ Movement, which helped define his progressive style.

Göran Hongell
Göran Hongell
Göran Hongell (1902- 1973) is a Finnish designer, well-known for his beautiful glasswork. In 1932, he started working for Karhula-Iittala and was in charge of preparing the existing creations for mass production. He also drew many functional and artistic glass objects throughout the years, such as his famous stackable Silko, Säde and Maininki glasses, but also bowls and vases which could be engraved according to customer’s wishes. In 1949, Göran Hongell designed his range of mouth blown Aarne glasses, which were awarded the gold medal at the Milan Triennale in 1954.
Goran Warff
Goran Warff
The Swedish artist Göran Wärff, born in 1933, joined the Kosta Boda Company in 1964, after completing studies in industrial design. He worked for the firm for around ten years, before moving to Australia, and later England, to work and teach. He returned to Kosta Boda in 1984. As a native of the Island of Gotland, in Sweden, Göran Wärff was strongly inspired by nature, the sky, forests and fields, which marked his childhood. The artist successfully managed to recreate the same plays of light and other optical phenomenon he had observed in the nature, in each of his pieces.
Grete Jalk
Grete Jalk
Grete Jalk was born in Denmark in 1920. After studying philosophy at Copenhagen University and training as a cabinetmaker in the early 1940s, Jalk studied furniture design at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts, and Industrial Design and the Royal Danish Academy of Arts. Best known for her furniture design, including laminated plywood furniture for manufacturer Poul Jeppesen, and tubular steel furniture for manufacturer Fritz Hensen, such as the easy chair of 1964. She also worked in other design media, including textiles, metalware, and wallpaper.
Grethe Meyer
Grethe Meyer
Grethe Meyer (1918 – 2008) is a Danish architect and designer. She is well-known for her collaboration with Georg Jensen, which gave birth to a cutlery set in stainless steel, named Copenhagen. She also drew a number of dinner services for the porcelain manufactory The Royal Copenhagen.
Gundorph Albertus
Gundorph Albertus

Gundorph Albertus (1887 – 1970) joined Georg Jensen in 1911, while studying at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen. He had previously worked as a silversmith in Munich and Paris for many years. Gundorph Albertus was a true perfectionist and always made sure his creations were of the highest possible quality.

Gunilla Allard
Gunilla Allard

With a background of working with several projects in the Swedish film industry, Gunilla enrolled at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, in 1983, to study interior and furniture design.
Gunilla became Lammhults first female designer and her continued work for Lammhults has resulted in a numerous range of furniture design.


The statement of the jury of the George Jensen prize received in 1996, one of many prestigious awards received, well describes her products. ”… strict, minimalistic and elegant design. The proportions and details of her furniture reveal a genuine sense of quality.”

Gunilla´s collaboration with saveral manufacturers, as well as designing kitchens, glassware, lightning and carpets, makes her one of the foremost names in contemporary Scandinavian design.

Gunilla lagerhem Ullberg
Gunilla lagerhem Ullberg
Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg (1955 - ) is one of the most well-known Swedish textile designers in the world. She started off designing fabric and wallpaper, then started collaborating with Kinnasand and Sanden to create a colorful range of carpets and fabric in 1997. An example of her designs is the Greta carpet.
Gunnar Biilmann-Petersen
Gunnar Biilmann-Petersen
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen (1897 – 1968) is a Danish architect and designer. After completing his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School, he worked as an architect before achieving success in the field of graphic arts. Also a teacher and researcher, he was named first ever Professor of Design in 1951. Over the years, he suggested many table lamp designs for Le Klint, some of which are still in production today.
Gustav Winsth
Gustav Winsth

Gustav Winsth has a background in mechanical engineering and finds his inspiration from various manufacturing techniques and materials, which naturally seep into his design. He is also recognized for pushing the boundaries of contemporary design while exploring how furniture can be produced sustainably and responsibly.

Hannes Åström
Hannes Åström

Hannes Åström is a designer and product developer based in Stockholm. His vision is to create functional furniture and products, where the form takes into account all the users of the object, its context and our contemporary challenges. 

Hannes has a bachelor's degree in furniture design from Malmstens Linköping University, 2020, and a master's degree in design and product development from the Royal Institute of Technology, 2011.

Hans Bolling
Hans Bolling
Hans Bolling (born 1931) is a Danish designer and architect. After originally studying to become an advertising designer, he later followed his passion and graduated as an architect from the Royal Danish Art Academy. He designed many decorative wooden objects as well as furniture, but also villas and town halls. His most famous work is without a doubt the famous wooden Duck family.
Hans Christian Mengshoel
Hans Christian Mengshoel
In collaboration with the designers Oddvin Rykken, Svein Gusrud and Peter Opsvik, Norwegian born Hans Christian Mengschoel created the first “Balans” chair in 1970. The idea was to design a chair which would allow users to sit in a kneeling posture, thus relieving the pelvis as well as the spinal column.
Hans J. Wegner
Hans J. Wegner
Dedicated to excellent craftsmanship and modern living, Hans J. Wegner's design philosophy embraces the idea of purifying and simplifying a piece down to it's most basic elements and then adding subtle, almost imperceptible touches that achieve astounding beauty. As the heralded creator of "the world's most beautiful chair", Wegner designs posses the ability to enchant and to provide incredible comfort.
Hans Sandgren Jakobsen
Hans Sandgren Jakobsen
Hans Sandgren Jakobsen (born 1963) is a Danish cabinetmaker and industrial designer. During a study trip to the United States, Hans Jakobsen discovered the traditional Shaker’s craftsmanship, which highly influenced his work. After graduating from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen, he left for Japan to work for COBO Design. In 1991, he started working for Danish designer Nanna Ditzel, before focusing his efforts on his own projects. His most famous work includes the range of lamps, named Elements as well as the famous Gallery stool, which was awarded the Copenhagen Art Society Award in 1988.
Harald Nielsen
Harald Nielsen
Harald Nielsen (1892 – 1977) is a Danish designer and close collaborator of Georg Jensen, for whom he worked for over half a century. As the younger brother of Georg Jensen’s third wife, he joined the company as an apprentice in 1909 and slowly worked his way up, as a designer, then head of the apprentice school. After Jensen’s death in 1935, Nielsen insured the high quality of the firm’s designs and production would be maintained, by selecting and training the designers and silversmiths according to Georg Jensen’s standards. In 1958, he was named artistic director of the company, until 1962. The designer also created a number of pieces of jewelry, hollowware, as well as his famous Pyramid cutlery sets.
Harri Koskinen
Harri Koskinen
Harri Koskinen (born 1970) is a Finnish designer and founder of the Friends of Industry company. The company offers Nordic inspired designs for furniture, glassware, textile, watches, but also houses and other buildings. Its clients are some of the most successful design brands in the world, such as Artek and Iitalla.
Harrit-Sørensen+Samson
Harrit-Sørensen+Samson
The trio of designers Thomas Harrit, Nicolai Sørensen and Kim Samson have regularly worked together since graduating from the Danish School of design in 1991. Together they created the famous range of Snowdrop lamps for Le Klint in 2009, with Harrit and Sørensen mainly focusing on the functional developments, and Samson giving the lamps their feminine lines.
HAY
HAY
The Danish design company Hay was founded in 2002. The main objective of the founders was to bring back the innovative creations of the 1950s and 1960s by incorporating new original ideas from young talents, but also the time tested knowledge of reputable contemporary artists and designers. The result is a collection of chairs, armchairs, sofas and tables, with a clearly Danish design, and which can easily adapt to modern environments.
Hee Welling
Hee Welling
Hee Welling (born in 1974) is a famous Danish designer. After studying at the Danish School of Design, he founded his own design studio named Hee Welling Design. His most famous creations, the Hee series as well as the famous AAC chair (About A Chair) are both produced by the Danish company HAY.
Heikki Orvola
Heikki Orvola
Heikki Orvola (born 1943) is one of the greatest Finnish designers of all times. This tableware and decorative arts specialist not only works in glass and ceramics but also in cast iron and textiles. He began collaborating with Finnish company Iittala in 1972, for which he designed the set of Aurora glasses. In 1987, he designed the famous Kivi tea lights, which are still in production today.
Helge Sibast
Helge Sibast

Helge Sibast (1908-1985) was a Danish cabinetmaker and designer who continued the work of his father Peder Olsen Sibast. Besides a skillful carpenter, Helge Sibast was also a visionary designer, and in the 1950s and 1960s his simple, functional and high-quality designs gained success also outside Denmark, and even made their way to the White House. His best known designs, Sibast chairs No 7 and 8, Helge Sibast designed in 1953. In the 21st century Sibast’s tradition is carried on by Sibast Furniture, which was relaunched in 2012 by Helge Sibast’s grandson and his wife.

Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius

Hella Jongerius was born in De Meern, a village to the west of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1963. From 1988 to 1993, she studied design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. After graduating, she worked for a few projects at Droog Design.[1] She founded her own studio called Jongeriuslab in Rotterdam in 1993. She taught at the Design Academy Eindhoven as head of the department Living/Atelier (1988–1993)

Helle Damkjaer
Helle Damkjaer
Helle Damkjaer is a Danish designer, who has lived in Paris for the past ten years where she owns her own design studio and also works as a graphic artist and producer. She is well-known for working with innovative design brands around the world, in particular Rosendahl, Royal Copenhagen and Sentou. She has also collaborated with the Georg Jensen Silversmithy for a number of years, for which she created the famous Bloom bowls.
Henning Koppel
Henning Koppel
Henning Koppel (1918 – 1981) was a great pioneer of Danish functionalism. The famous Danish designer aspired to make everyday objects not only more beautiful but also more practical. After studying as a sculptor at the Danish Royal Academy, then in Paris, he started collaborating with Georg Jensen and designing jewelry, tableware and cutlery. His creations were extremely innovative for his time, and even today still have a very modern look.
Henning Seidelin
Henning Seidelin
Henning Seidelin (1904 – 1987) is a Danish sculptor and designer, specialized in the working of silver, steel, porcelain and faience. It’s only after finding success as a sculptor that Henning Seidelin also became an industrial designer, designing not only tableware, cutlery and dishes, but also furniture and lamps, many of which have become great classic of Scandinavian design. Over the years, Henning Seidelin worked in collaboration with the Danish companies Royal Copenhagen, Gense and Georg Jensen.
Herbert Krenchel
Herbert Krenchel

Herbert Krenchel graduated with a Master of Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. Herbert Krenchel’s research was focused on materials and fiber reinforcement. Since the 1950’s, simultaneously with his research, Herbert Krenchel has worked with design. The enameled Krenit bowl won the gold medal at the 1954 Milan Triennale. 

Ilkka Suppanen
Ilkka Suppanen
Ilkka Suppanen (born 1968) is a famous Finnish designer. After studying architecture at the technical University of Helsinki, Ilkka Suppanen graduated as an interior and furniture designer from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. In 1995, he established his own design studio, Studio Suppanen, specialized in the strategic design of products, interiors and architecture. In 1997, he founded the design company, Snowcrash, with three of his colleagues and quickly achieved a lasting reputation worldwide.
Ilmari Tapiovaara
Ilmari Tapiovaara
Ilmari Tapiovaara (1914 – 1999) is a Finnish designer, well-known for his innovative furniture and textiles. After studying interior design, Ilmari Tapiovaara started working for Asko, Finland’s biggest furniture producer, before joining the Keravan Puuteollisuus company, where he worked as artistic and commercial director. In 1946, he designed the famous Domus chair for a student housing facility in Helsinki, which was one of his greatest successes. In 1951, he founded his own design studio, along with his wife, and worked for many businesses, hotels, banks, shops and offices.
Ilse Crawford
Ilse Crawford
Ilse Crawford (1962) is a famous British designer, born to a Danish mother in London. After studying history at the Royal Holloway College, she started working in the offices of an architectural firm, then as sub-editor for the magazines Architect’s Journal and World of Interiors. From there, she was named editor of the new Elle Decoration magazine, and put in charge of its launch in the UK. Today Ilse Crawford is a consultant and designer, and has founded her own company, Studioilse, specialized in brand image, furniture and product design.
Ingmar Relling
Ingmar Relling
Ingmar Ralling is a Norwegian designer, born in 1920 in Sikkvlven, Norway. After studying architecture and furniture design at the SKHS School in Oslo, he worked for the design firm Rastard & Relling AS, before founding his own studio in 1950. Ingmar Relling only started focusing on furniture design in the 1960s, and quickly achieved international recognition with his SIESTA chair.
Jaime Hayon
Jaime Hayon

Knowing how to combine fantasy and sobriety, Jaime Hayon has become an essential reference in contemporary design, imposing a signature that has allowed him to receive twice the Elle Decoration International Design Award in 2006 and 2012, as well as the Spanish National Design Award in 2021.

James Irvine
James Irvine
James Irvine (1958 – 2013) was a British designer based in Milan. After studying at the Royal College of Art, he moved to Milan in 1984, where he worked as a consultant for over a decade. In 1989, he founded his own design studio, and worked closely with brands such as LG, Canon and Whirlpool. One of his greatest successes in terms of design was the Merceded-Benz Citaro bus.
Jani Martikainen
Jani Martikainen
Jani Martikainen (born 1971) is a Finnish designer. He studied furniture and interior design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, before working for several design companies in Finland and Russia. He then founded his own company, Majamboo, in 1998, specialized in the production of tableware and accessories. His most famous pieces include the Majamboo table mats, and trays.
Jasper Morrison
Jasper Morrison

Born in London in 1959, Jasper Morrison graduated from the Royal College of Art and established his first design office in 1986. He works nowadays for various high-level brands especially in London and Paris.

Jean-Marie Massaud
Jean-Marie Massaud
Jean-Marie Massaud is a French architect, inventor and designer, born in Toulouse, France, in 1966. After graduating from the ENSCI (Ecole Nationale du Supérieur de Création Industrielle) School in Paris, he worked with designer Marc Berthier, before founding his own design studio, “Studio Massaud”, with Daniel Pouzet, and broadening his activity to the fields of architecture and consultancy. He has worked for various brands, including Dior, Renault and B&B.
Jens Quistgaard
Jens Quistgaard
Jens Harald Quistgaard (1919 – 2008) was a great Danish sculptor and architect, well-known for his clean-lined tableware pieces. He worked for the American brand Dansk Designs, where he was named chief-designer, for over 30 years. His work quickly became a symbol of Scandinavian modernism and met huge success worldwide. His designs are still exhibited in museums around the world, including the Louvre museum in Paris.
Jeppe Utzon
Jeppe Utzon

Jeppe Utzon is a third-generation architect - and fourth-generation designer. He has achieved international acclaim for his work, and the cross-creative DNA comes from no stranger. As the grandson of the famous Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who created the Sydney Opera House, Jeppe Utzon continues a rich family tradition through his work in the art of architecture. He runs a design studio in the centre of Copenhagen, and is doing projects for clients in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The projects are as diverse as private luxury homes in Denmark, eco holiday resorts in Nicaragua, iconic commercial buildings in Shanghai and floating social housing in Bolivia.

Jette Frölich
Jette Frölich
Danish artist Jette Fröhlich, whose home accessories and seasonal decorations can be found in homes around the world, has been the featured Christmas designer for Danish companies Georg Jensen and Royal Copenhagen. In January 2008, she created her own brand of gifts and interior objects, called Nordic Living, which offers wreaths, candle holders and other decorative items with simple, elegant designs.
Jo Hammerborg
Jo Hammerborg
Johannes (Jo) Hammerborg grew up on the outskirts of Randers in a regular middle-class family. He trained as a silversmith, participated in Denmark's resistance and struggle for freedom in 1940-45 as a saboteur, studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked as a silversmith at Georg Jensen. In 1957, he was hired as chief designer at the lamp manufacturer Fog & Mørup, where he worked until 1980.
John Astbury
John Astbury

John Astbury studied anthropology and sociology in his native England before moving to Sweden to study product design at Konstfack, the country's largest university for arts, crafts and design. Boat building kindled his love of craftsmanship, and playing music ignited his passion for evoking emotions through design.

John Brauer
John Brauer
John Brauer (born 1960) is an industrial design, graphic design and communication specialist. After graduating in Architecture from the KEA School of Design and Technology in Copenhagen, John Brauer travelled throughout the world to find inspiration for his innovative designs. His most famous work includes the Move and Illusion tables, as well as the Bin Bin wastebasket, which received multiple awards, including a Good Design Award in 2005, a Red Dot Design Award in 2007, and an IF-Product Design Award.
Jorgen Moller
Jorgen Moller
Jorgen Moller (born 1930) is a Danish architect and designer. From 1961 to 1967, he worked as an architect for designer Arne Jacobsen, before founding his own design studio in 1969. He later worked for the Georg Jensen Silversmiths and designed watches, kitchen utensils and thermometers in stainless steel and anodized aluminium. In 1987, he created the famous Elephant bottle opener, which soon became a classic of Scandinavian design.
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon
Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval architect, and grew up in Aalborg, Denmark, where he became interested in ships and a possible naval career. As a result of his family's interest in art, from 1937 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen. Following his graduation in 1942, he joined Gunnar Asplund in Stockholm where he worked together with Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen. He took a particular interest in the works of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. After the end of World War II and the German Occupation of Denmark, he returned to Copenhagen. In 1946 he visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki. In 1947–48 he travelled in Europe, in 1948 he went to Morocco where he was taken by the tall clay buildings. In 1949, he travelled to the United States and Mexico, where the pyramids provided further inspiration. Fascinated by the way the Mayans built towards the sky to get closer to God, he commented that his time in Mexico was "One of the greatest architectural experiences in my life. In America, he visited Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin West, in the Arizona desert and met Charles and Ray Eames. In 1950 he established his own studio in Copenhagen and, in 1952, built an open-plan house for himself, the first of its kind in Denmark. In 1957, he travelled first to China (where he was particularly interested in the Chinese desire for harmony), Japan (where he learnt much about the interaction between interiors and exteriors) and India, before arriving in Australia in 1957 where he stayed until 1966 .All this contributed to Utzon's understanding of factors which contribute to successful architectural design.
Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint (1888 – 1954) is a Danish architect and furniture designer, often considered the father of Scandinavian modernism. From 1917, he was self-employed as a designer and worked for firms such as Fritz Hansen and Rudolph Rasmussen. In 1924, he was named director of the Furniture Design School in Copenhagen, where he also taught architecture from 1944. He therefore highly influenced the post-war Danish design school of thought, and advocated a return to traditional craftsmanship. In 1933, he designed the famous Deck and Safari chairs.
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck (1911 – 1989) is one of the most important figures of Finnish design, and has influenced many generations of professional artists and designers. He was named artistic director of the Wärtsilä company, which later became Iittala, and also taught at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. What Kaj Franck wanted, before anything else, was to create simple objects which would reconcile the public with industrial production. 50 years after they were designed, the collection of Teema tableware and famous Karito glasses are still largely present in homes around Finland.
Karin Mannerstals
Karin Mannerstals
Finnish designer Karin Mannerstal created a cutlery set, including a knife, fork, spoon and pusher, specially designed for children with their beautiful rounded edges.
KaschKasch
KaschKasch

Design studio kaschkasch was founded in 2011 by Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider in Cologne, Germany. The duo works in furniture, lighting design and art direction for several national and international clients. Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider share a background that combines hands-on and academic education: both are trained as cabinet makers followed by studies in product design. This versatility informs everything kaschkasch does. The studio appreciates the hands-on insight, practice and technical understanding, which contributes to their design method: traditional craftsmanship techniques and a mindset geared towards innovation, disruption and new technological solutions.

Katrin Olina
Katrin Olina

Icelandic designer Katrin Olina studied industrial design at E.S.D.I. in Paris. After graduating, she worked in Philippe Starck's design studio in Paris and then in Ross Lovergroves' design studio in London. After these experiences, she went freelance, concentrating on graphic design and illustrations in the fields of industrial design, fashion, interior design, print and animation.

Kay Bojesen
Kay Bojesen
Kay Bojesen (1886 – 1958) is a Danish silversmith and designer, well-known for his wooden figures, and particularly the famous monkey designed in 1951. In 1906, he began working for the Danish Silversmiths Georg Jensen, whose style clearly influenced his first creations. In 1922, he started designing small wooden toys shaped as animals and characters with movable limbs. He also designed children’s furniture, jewelry, as well as tableware.
Khodi Feiz
Khodi Feiz

Khodi Feiz is an industrial designer specialized in the fields of product design, furniture design, branding and strategic design.

Kim Buck
Kim Buck
Kim Buck (born 1957) is a Danish jewelry designer who mainly worked for Georg Jensen. He also owns his own workshop and gallery. Kim Buck’s philosophy was that jewelry should not only be beautiful, but should also be an effective means of expressing tastes and values.
Kira Usbeck
Kira Usbeck

Kira Usbeck is an up-and-coming designer. With her Bachelor’s degree in furniture design, she brings fresh eyes to the design industry. Kira’s passion is to create designs with a focus on functionality and aesthetics. The challenge is to create minimalist designs where nothing is left to chance, and where every detail reflects a deeper consideration.

Kirsi Gullichsen
Kirsi Gullichsen
Kirsi Gullichsen is a Finnish architect and designer, famous for her Morris tables, with their peculiar asymetrical shape.
Kjell Engman
Kjell Engman
After studying at the Art and Design School in Stockholm, Kjell Engman (born 1946) joined the Kosta Bola company, where he has worked as a designer since 1978. His artwork, made of glass, is not only inspired by nature and animals, but also by music and more genrally entertainment
Klaus Rath
Klaus Rath
Klaus Rath (born 1964) is a Danish industrial designer, who graduated from the Århus School of Architecture in Denmark in 1990. After briefly working for Modulex A/S, he founded his own design studio, Klaus Rath Design, in 1997 and has since worked for large groups such as Siemens and Motorola. His creations are based on a perfect blend of craftsmanship and technology.
Komplot design
Komplot design
Komplot Design is a design studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1987 by Danish architect Poul Christiansen and Russian-born designer Boris Berlin. The company works within the fields of industrial, graphic and furniture design. Poul Christiansen (born 1947) graduated as an architect from the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1973. From 1969, he worked as a freelance designer, designing for companies like Danish lamp manufacturer Le Klint and Herman Miller. Boris Berlin (born 1953) was born and educated as an industrial designer in Saint Petersburg, then working with the design of optical instruments and aerospace equipment before moving to Denmark in 1983. From 1984-87, he worked as a product and graphic designer. Poul Christiansen and Boris Berlin founded Komplot Design in 1987.
Kosta Boda
Kosta Boda
Established in 1742 by Anders Koskull and Georg Bogislaus Stael von Holstei, Kosta Boda is the oldest glassworks in Sweden. It is part of the Orrefors Kosta Boda AB group, specialized in Scandinavian glass art, and brings together the crystal manufacturing sites of the villages of Orrefors, Kosta, Boda and Äfors. Kosta Boda offers high quality glass objects, either functional tableware including plates, salad bowls, pitchers and drinking glasses, or purely artistic objects such as a series of tealights and decorative vases.
Kurt Nørregaard
Kurt Nørregaard
After studying as an architect, Swedish designer Kurt Norregaard worked as a consultant for Louis Poulsen, where he developped a keen interest in indoor and outdoor lighting. Over the years, he served as a product manager and production manager for the series of PH lamps. He also designed the famous Oslo wall and ceiling lamps.
Laura Bilde
Laura Bilde

Laura Bilde is a danish designer. She is born in 1990 and today based in Copenhagen where she runs her studio working on design projects in furniture, textile, objects and lighting.

Leif Jorgensen
Leif Jorgensen
Leif Jorgensen (born 1968) is a Danish architect and designer, who mainly works for the design company Hay. From 2006 to 2008 he designed the Loop series, which includes a table and stands.
Louis Poulsen
Louis Poulsen
For over seventy years, the luminaire manufacturer Louis Poulsen has collaborated with architects and designers from around to world, to create innovative lighting solutions for indoor and outdoor use. The Louis Poulsen collection includes the famous Artichoke, PH 50 and Snowball pendants by Poul Henningsen, the collection of AJ lamps by Arne Jacobsen, as well as the Enigma pendants by Shoichi Uchiyama. Louis Poulsen’s philosophy can today be summed up in three words: functionality, comfort and atmosphere.
Louise Campbell
Louise Campbell
Louise Campbell graduated from the Danish Design School as an industrial designer in 1995. She is one of Denmark’s greatest talents in design and is particularly known for her furniture and lighting design. Among many awards and grants, Louise Campbell has received the Government Art Fund’s 3-year working grant and Finn Juhl’s Architecture Prize, as well as being voted designer of the year in 2005 by Bo Bedre. In 2009, Louise Campbell’s and Kähler’s Fiducia won Danish interior design magazine Boligmagasinet’s Design Award in the category ”readers’ favourite”.
Maria Berntsen
Maria Berntsen
After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Maria Bernsten founded her own design agency in Denmark. Her creations include lamps, jewelry and tableware. Over the years, she has collaborated with a number of design firms, such as Rosendahl, Koziol and the Georg Jensen Silversmiths, for which she designed many candlesticks and holders.
Maria Bruun
Maria Bruun

Bruun works closely with a number of skilled craftspeople – learning and listening with each iteration of her projects and prototypes. From her studio in Østerbro she works across furniture, interior and exhibition design that lies at the junction of artistic and commercial; championing a new age of Danish design that is respectful of its history, whilst striving for a contemporary design language.

Markus Johansson
Markus Johansson

Markus Johansson graduated in 2011 from HDK (School of Design and Crafts) Goteborg, Sweden.

His studio is located in Central Goteborg where he specializes in design and the development of design of  furniture, product, graphic and lighting.

Markus works with both Swedish and international design companies and has won numerous awards which also includes his highly acclaimed Nest chair which was exhibited at The Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Markus explains about his work:

"We try to find inspiration from various environments stretching from the human to the artefact, through analysing and processes. Our vision is to combine construction, function and form to enrich the everyday experience. Environmental thinking is of course important, but shouldn’t hinder creativity."

Mattias Mikaelsson
Mattias Mikaelsson
Mattias Mikaelson (born 1972) graduated from the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm and now works as a Swedish freelance industrial designer. He has created a wide range of patented products, from an artificial breathing machine, to a Gense Amuse tapas snack set.
Mia Hamborg
Mia Hamborg

Norwegian designer Mia Hamborg (b.1980), BA in furniture from the Steneby School of Crafts and Design in Gothenburg has a passion for order, functionality, and colour. With her joyous and playful furniture, she continues an old Nordic tradition for wood turning and brings new life into the material. She compliments designer Sir Terence Conran for his acknowledgment that modern people often live with limited space and therefore making storage a design issue. She doesn't follow any strict design tradition, but the joy of life is her inspiration.

Michael Young
Michael Young

Born in England in 1966, Michael Young is based in Hong Kong. For him, travel is a way of working. In the mid-1990s, Terence Conran, of Habitat furniture fame, named Michael Young as his favourite designer, while Wallpaper* magazine praised his designs. Michael Young, however, has no use for all this excitement and retreats to Iceland, where the environment helps him to concentrate on the essentials.

Mogens Holmriis
Mogens Holmriis

Mogens Holmriis is a passionate furniture designer who loves working with wood. His appreciation for the material's properties and aesthetic potential has only grown over the years. Born in Bjerringbro, Denmark in 1955, Mogens qualified as a cabinetmaker in 1974 and later as an architect from the School of Architecture in Aarhus in 1985.

Mogens Koch
Mogens Koch
Mogens Koch (1898 – 1993) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. From 1950 to 1968, he also taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he himself had previously studied. From 1925 to 1932, he worked for Carl Petersen, Ivar Bentsen and Kaare Klint, where he learnt the basics of Danish functional traditionalism. In 1928, he designed the famous Book Case in very fine solid wood for Rud Rasmussen. In 1932, he drew the folding chair, MK Safari, for the same company, followed by another folding chair for the Danish Society of Ecclesiastic Art, in 1933. As an architect, Mogens Koch mainly focused on the restoration of churches.
Mogens Lassen
Mogens Lassen

Mogens Lassen was a Modernist Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style. He mainly designed residential buildings, both in the form of single-family houses and apartment blocks

Morten Göttler
Morten Göttler
Morten Gottler is a Danish furniture designer, born in 1944. His designs are characterized by their simplicity and light appearance. In 1997, he designed the famous folding Cuba chair, with its comfortable cotton seat.
N.O.Moller
N.O.Moller
After finishing his apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker in 1939, Niels Moller studied at the Aahus Design School. In 1944, he founded the J.L.Mollers A/S company, where he worked as a furniture designer and producer. Today, the company still belongs to the Moller family and continues to produce his tables, chairs and other furniture of rare traditional quality.
Nanna Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel

Danish designer Nanna Ditzel (1923–2005) was a modern renaissance woman, creating furniture, jewelry, and textiles in materials ranging from fiberglass to foam rubber. Ditzel, who was married to (and collaborated with) first Jorgen Ditzel and later Kurt Heide, earned worldwide accolades for her curvaceous creations, from the Trinidad and Hanging chairs to the recently rereleased Sausage chair (formerly known as the no-less-appetizing Ring chair).

Nathan Yong
Nathan Yong
Industrial design graduate, Nathan Yong, began his career as a buyer, than product developer for various companies in Singapore. In 1999, he opened his own retail store, Air Division, where he sold his own creations, before resuming his studies. Nathan Yong is today head of a design consultancy practice and has been awarded many prizes for his creations, including a Red Dot Concept Design Award in 2006 and 2007.
Nicolas Barth Nussbaumer
Nicolas Barth Nussbaumer
Nicolas Barth Nussbaumer (born 1972) studied at the Art and Design School in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, before founding his own company, specialized in the design of watches, at the age of 24. If his creations are always based on traditional Swiss know-how, the young designer is nevertheless not afraid to develop innovative and sometimes unconventional approaches, which result in very modern watches. Nicolas Mussbaumer designed the famous Concave watches for the Georg Jensen Silversmiths, in 2006.
Niels Gammelgaard
Niels Gammelgaard
Niels Gammelgaard (born 1944) is a Danish industrial designer. After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, he co-founded Box 25 Architects, an architecture and design agency. He began collaborating with IKEA in 1975, and designed many of their best-selling products. In 1978, he co-founded Pelikan Design, an industrial design agency, with Lars Mathiesen, and designed various products from pens to hospital beds. Its success is however mainly the result of its furniture, designed for offices, waiting rooms and rest areas, and produced by Fritz Hansen, Bent Krogh, Fredericia and Erik Jorgensen.
Niels Hvass
Niels Hvass
Niels Hvass, born in 1958, is a Danish designer. He greatly contributed to the revival of Danish design in the early 1990s and his simple and elegant designs have received many prestigious awards.
Niels Jørgen Haugesen
Niels Jørgen Haugesen
Niels Jørgen Haugesen (1936) is a Danish designer and cabinetmaker. After studying at the Danish School of Arts, Crafts and Design in 1961, Haugesen briefly worked with Arne Jacobsen (1996 – 1971) before opening his own design studio in 1971. From 1980 to 1995, he worked in collaboration with Gunvor Haugesen. Niels Haugesen teaches at the Danish School of Design since 1976. The range of garden furniture, Xylophon, is one of his most famous creations.
Nils Strinning
Nils Strinning

The Swedish architect Nils Strinning (1917-2006) was one of the most prominent designers of the mid-20th century. He was one of those who laid the foundations for what is now known as Scandinavian design. Nils Strinning is the creator of the famous String shelving system, a lightweight shelving system created in the 1940s that is still very popular today. The String system is simple to assemble and the shelves can easily be repositioned.

Nina Tolstrup
Nina Tolstrup
Nina Tolstrup (born 1962) is a Danish designer, based in London. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (Les Ateliers) in Paris, than at the Copenhagen Business School. She founded her design agency, Studiomama, in 2000. Her work is simple, contemporary and full of character, and the designer enjoys working with recycled materials.
Norway Says
Norway Says

Norway Says is a company based in Oslo, designing furniture, interiors and products. They have been awarded the designer of the year award in Norway and have received several national and international design awards for their work. Norway Says’ designers are Torbjørn Anderssen (b. 1976), Andreas Engesvik (b. 1970), Espen Voll (b. 1965), and Hallgeir Homstvedt (b. 1977). Kjersti Bekken (b. 1977) joined Norway Says in 2006 to run the Norway Says Shop. Norway Says has a broad and international approach to design and works with various national and international clients. Norway Says’ company culture is based on strong ideas, long-term friendship, and knowledge.

NOTE Design Studio
NOTE Design Studio

Founded in Stockholm in 2007, NOTE has quickly become an established design studio.

NOTE is a multidisciplinary studio and works within the fields of architecture, interiors product design, graphic design and design strategy. As designers, they constantly observe and explore their environment and, through their areas of expertise they try to invoke others to do the same.

By identifying what is unique about each project, they each project, they transform non-material values into tactile objects and spaces.

O & M
O & M
O&M is a design studio founded in 1973 by Erik Marquardsen and Takashi Okamura. The idea was to create a studio in which traditional Danish craftsmanship and new Japanese industrial technologies could merge to create unique designs. O&M’s innovative creations are successful throughout the world.
OEO Studio Design
OEO Studio Design

OEO Studio is a Danish design studio founded by Thomas Lyk in 2003.

Its work focuses on interior and product design, as well as brand innovation. OEO Studio is best known for its passion for craftsmanship and natural materials, as well as for its meticulousness, honed by years of experience in the field.

Oivind Slaatto
Oivind Slaatto

Oivind Slaatto, industrial designer, 1978 . Oivind finds great inspiration in nature, particularly in the snail – with regard to both the construction of the snail shell and the slow pace of the snail. In addition, the Fibonacci sequence, fractals, and other basic mathematical principles fascinate him. These sources of inspiration formed the basis for his very first design after getting his degree. For B&O he made the loudspeaker A9, which was introduced in 2012. The same principles have inspired his new series of lamps – the Swirl. The lamps have actually been in progress ever since he completed his studies in 2008, but Øivind has worked intensely on improving and polishing the features. His desire that light, form and function should work together to provide a handsome light experience, while the design of the lamp is quite airy, ties in very well with the Scandinavian tradition. As such, it is in complete harmony with LE KLINT’s collection, which these lamps will now become a part of.

Oki Sato
Oki Sato

Oki Sato, born in 1977 in Toronto, Canada, studied architecture at Waseda University in Tokyo.
He obtained his Master’s degree in 2002. In the same year, the nendo studio was born in Tokyo.
Now he has taken up the international stage, with offices in Tokyo and Milan.

Nendo, meaning ‘modelling clay’, expresses his desire of having certain flexibility and the ability to reinvent oneself. The designer takes his inspiration from Japanese uncluttered style to create a language of his time.
The philosophy of Oki Sato is reflected in his designs, thanks to which he transforms the interactions of people with the objects surrounding them by creating a parenthesis in their life.
This desire is found in the uncluttered and characteristic shapes of his designs, to which he always adds a touch of humour and conviviality.

Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson

The artist Olafur Eliasson (Iceland/Denmark), born in 1967, works in a wide range of artistic media, including installation, painting, sculpture, photography and film. Since 1997, he has exhibited solo in the world's major museums. He is also deeply involved in art education, political action, and issues of sustainable development and climate change.

Olafur Eliasson's projects in public space include The New York City Waterfalls, 2008, Your Rainbow Panorama, 2006-2011, Ice Watch, 2014, and Fjordenhus in Vejle, Denmark, 2018.

Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen
Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen

Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen (1930-2009) was a productive Danish designer best known for his OGK Safari bench and chair, as well as his Modeline collection, designed in collaboration with Tørben Lind.

After completing his training as a cabinetmaker, Gjerløv-Knudsen studied furniture design at the Danish School of Art, Craft and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He later taught at the Faculty of Architecture at the Danish School of Art and Crafts, and served as rector of his former school from 1967 to 1990.

Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen (1958) is a Danish ceramist and designer. He graduated from the Arts and Crafts School of Kolding and later from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He describes his work as “simple, and in some measure minimalist”, and hopes it will never become boring. He has been awarded a dozen Design Awards, including a prestigious Good Design Award in 2008.
Ole Wanscher
Ole Wanscher
Ole Wanscher (1903 – 1985) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kaare Klint, with whom he later worked from 1924 to 1927. But it was between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 60s, that he designed his most famous pieces. He enjoyed industrially producing affordable high quality furniture, but his finest creations were mostly produced in collaboration with the best cabinetmakers of the time. His most famous designs are the Colonial Chair, and the Egyptian stools.
Pancho Nikander
Pancho Nikander
Pancho Nikander is a young Finnish designer, best-known for his Kanto magazine rack, made out of a single sheet of plywood, and produced by Artek.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola

Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1961. Lives and works in Milan. She attended the University of Architecture at Madrid Polytechnic and Milan Polytechnic, where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni. Assistant lecturer to Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli in Milan and Paris, responsible for the new product development office of DePadova, working with Vico Magistretti, head of Lissoni Associati’s design group.

Pekka Koivikko
Pekka Koivikko

Pekka Koivikki is born in 1975, lives in Helsinki, Finland. He is educated as an industrial designer / Master of Arts

He designs and produce tailored furniture for private and public purposes. He is trained to use design tools of high standards, and he has more than two decades of first hand experience at the workshops making furniture for clients. This combination of design and practical knowledge enables efficient use of available resources to produce quality results.

Pelikan Design
Pelikan Design
Pelikan Design is a Danish design studio founded by the architects and industrial designers Niels Gammelgaard (1944) and Lars Mathiesen (1950). Their designs are both unpretentious and expressive.
Per Borre
Per Borre
Per Borre is a Danish furniture designer. He is best-known as the designer of the famous Astral bench (1979), which sculptural form and innovative construction have already earned him many prestigious design awards.
Per Lutken
Per Lutken
Per Lütken (1916 – 1998) is a famous Danish glassmaker, well-known for his collaboration with the Holmegaard Glass Factory. He worked for the Holmegaard company for over 50 years and designed over 3000 products. Some of his most famous pieces are the NO.5, Ideelle and Skibglas series.
Peter J. Lassen
Peter J. Lassen
Peter J. Lassen is the man behind Montana furniture - design classics renowned for their simplicity and the functionality of their design. Peter J. Lassen has been strongly influenced by his work with the great architects Arne Jacobsen, Jørn Utzon, Piet Hein and Verner Panton. The evidence is seen in the clean lines and functionality of his design.
Peter Karpf
Peter Karpf

Peter Karpf is a Danish architect born in 1940 in Copenhagen. He studied at Fritz Hansen and the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and 1960s and cooperated with Piet Hein, Grete Jalk, Arne Jacobsen and Erik Herløw. Karpf worked with the idea of the Voxia collection for over thirty years before it was finally realised.

Peter Svarrer
Peter Svarrer
Danish School of Decorative Arts graduate Peter Svarrer owns a workshop, specialized in blown glass designs, but also works for the Holmegaards Glass Factory. He designs not only table glasses, but also decorative objects, lamps and tea lights.
Philip Bro Ludvigsen
Philip Bro Ludvigsen
Industrial designer Philip Bro Ludvigsen, born in 1962, studied at the Danish Scool of Design and Art, where he has taught since graduating in 1989. In 1999, he founded his own design studio, Philip Bro, and has worked with companies Georg Jensen, Eilersen Softline, Royal Copenhagen, Ikea and Le Klint, for which he has designed many lamps, including the famous Le Klint 190 “Sunflower” pendant.
Piero Lissoni
Piero Lissoni

Piero Lissoni is an Italian architect and designer, known for his contemporary furniture design. In 1986, he and Nicoletta Canesi founded the interdisciplinary studio Lissoni Associati in Milan, focusing on architecture as well as interior and product design

Pierre Sindre
Pierre Sindre

Pierre Sindre is a Swedish designer and interior architect who studied at the Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

His work ranges from product and furniture design to interior design for public spaces, such as restaurants and museums.

In Sindre's designs, the emphasis is often on a good knowledge of materials, small details and a combination of function and playfulness.

Piet Hein
Piet Hein

Piet Hein (1905 –1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet.

He mastered it all and made Danish cultural life a little richer, a little prettier and a little more witty with his trademark line, his square head and his quirky language. For him there was no unbridgeable gap between the subjectivity of the fine arts and the objective world of science. He had a rare ability to bring poetry, geometry and design together in a harmonious design, where function and art is weighted equally.

His superellipse was to solve the double contrast between the circle and the square and that of the ellipse and the rectangle. Piet Hein's superellipse shape was adopted by various Scandinavian industries for use in architectural design, furniture, and household consumer products.

In addition to his work with the development of the superellipse Piet Hein has executed a great many other design commissions, from board in wood to the elegant Sinus lamp.

"Art is solution to problems which cannot be formulated clearly before they have been solved".

                                                                                                                          Piet Hein

Poul Christiansen
Poul Christiansen
Poul Christiansen (born in 1947) is a Danish architect and designer. After studying at the Danish School of Fine Arts, he worked as an architect and designer for Ib & Jorgen Rasmussen from 1977 to 1986, before founding his own design studio, Komplot Design, with Boris Berlin in 1987. Poul Christiansen is best-known for his innovative lampshades, designed for Le Klint.
Poul Henningsen
Poul Henningsen
Though originally designed in the early 1920s, Poul Henningsen's lighting designs are just as striking and unforgettable in today's modern spaces. Seeking to minimize the harsh transition between darkness and light, his work is characterized by a multi-layered approach to infusing a space with soft, comfortable light.
Poul Kjaerholm
Poul Kjaerholm
Already at when finishing his education at Kunsthåndværkerskolen, Poul Kjærholm made a name for himself as one of Denmarks most renowned designers with his PK 25. This was due to a highly refined sense of shaping and probably also because his furniture was so distinctly different from Juhl and Wegner's in both choice of material and design. Kjærholm preferred leather and steel, even if he did occansionally work with wood. Kjaerholm's work is functional, meant to be supportive and comfortable to the sitter.
Poul M.Volther
Poul M.Volther
Poul M. Volther belonged to a generation of architects with solid roots in the very best of craft. As an exponent to functionalism he was against fads and aesthetic smartness and he loved the simple manufacture of fine materials. Poul M. Volther was a trained cabinet-maker and later he graduated from The School of Arts and Crafts. As a teacher at The Danish School of Art and Design he has influenced hundreds of young designers’ sense of craft quality. The Corona chair is without comparison his most famous design.
Povl B. Eskildsen
Povl B. Eskildsen
Povl Bjerregaard (born in 1954) is a Danish designer. After studying at the Aarhus School of Architecture, he founded his own design studio in 1986. He has since worked for the furniture company Skagerak, for which he designed the Nautic laundry container.
Rainer Bachschmid
Rainer Bachschmid

Rainer Bachschmid was born in southern Germany on Lake Constance. In addition to his training as a carpenter, he studied industrial design at the University of Wuppertal. After graduating in 1994, he worked with various designers such as Babel Design and Moll Design. Later, Rainer Bachschmid moved to Switzerland. He worked for 10 years as a development and design manager for the furniture factory Reinhard AG.

In 2006 he founded his own design studio and in 2009 rabadesign GmbH from Switzerland. Since 2005, Rainer Bachschmid has also been a design lecturer at the Bürgenstock Training Center for Master Carpenters (VSSM). He currently lives in Beckenried, Switzerland, with his wife and two children.

Regitze Overgaard
Regitze Overgaard
Georg Jensen’s longtime collaborator Regitze Overgaard, born in 1946, designed numerous series of jewelry for the famous Danish Silversmiths, which have proved extremely successful over time. Her creations, with their organic designs, studied to reflect light, were mainly inspired by Scandinavian nature. The Magic, Infinity and Sphere collections are just some of her most popular creations.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect and designer. After graduating as an architect from the Milan Polytechnic Institute in 1964, he worked with his father, also an architect, before collaborating with a number of designers and architects around the world. In 1971, he co-founded the “Piano and Rogers” company with Richard Rogers, then the “Atelier Piano and Rice” practice with Peter Rice in 1977. He is now head of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which employs architects, engineers and other collaborators in its three practices in Paris, Genoa and New York.
Ritva Puotila
Ritva Puotila
Ritva Puotila is the artistic director of Woodnotes, the company she co-founded with her son Mikko Puotila. Woodnotes is specialized in the production of paper yarn rugs, carpets, blinds, upholstery and other small home items. Her designs have received many international design awards.
RKDO
RKDO
RKDO (Raunkjaer/Kjaergaard Design Office) is a design studio founded by Thyge Raunkjaer and Karen Kjaergaard in Milan in 1989. In 1991, the office was moved to Aarhus in Denmark. Their creations include indoor and outdoor furniture, lamps and fittings.
Roger Persson
Roger Persson

Roger Persson was born in 1967 in Karlskrona, trained as an industrial designer at HDK / University of Gothenburg and also studied furniture design at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

University of Gothenburg and also studied furniture design at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

He then opened a design studio with two colleagues. Since 2009 he has been running his own studio,

Roger Persson Design, which designs furniture and other products - from lighting, switches and 3D scanners to toys.

His furniture has been exhibited throughout Europe, Japan and the USA.

Royal Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen
Founded in Copenhagen in 1775 by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, under the protection of Queen Juliane Marie, Royal Copenhagen is one of the oldest porcelain manufacturers in Europe. The company is known throughout the world for its classic blue and white designs, heavily inspired by the porcelain imported from China during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Other more modern and innovative ranges are regularly produced and are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary homes. These include the well-loved Element plates by Louise Campbell. The most famous Royal Copenhagen creations include the Flora Danica, Blue Fluted, Blue Flower, Henriette, Saxon Flower, Fan, Gemina and Gemma collections.
Rud Thygesen & Johnny Sorensen
Rud Thygesen & Johnny Sorensen
Rud Thygesen (1932) and Johnny Sorensen (1944) graduated from the Danish School of Arts, Crafts and Design in 1966. That same year they founded their own design studio, specialized in the creation of functional furniture, made out of laminated or thermoformed multilayer wood. Their designs are exhibited in museums around the world and have won many prestigious design awards.
Saana ja Olli
Saana ja Olli
Saans ja Olli is a design studio founded by a young Finnish couple in 2008 and specialized in the design and conception of hemp fabrics. Their Yö metsässa collection, or “Night in the forest” was inspired by the traditional Finnish lifestyle, but also by the magical Finnish world, there in everyone’s dreams.
Sakari Hartikainen
Sakari Hartikainen

Sakari Hartikainen is a versatile Finnish industrial designer and manufacturer, working internationally and extensively in the fields of product design furniture and concepts. Flexibility and the courage to explore new possibilities are accompanied by a humble hand on design and creativity. His solid experience in working with different materials and especially his knowledge of the possibilities and character of wood play a major role in simple, intelligent and clean finished products. Aiming to design and create products that have the potential to create an emotional connection between the object and the end user. In a way that the pieces invite and encourage the owner to take care of them, while they have the quality to age with dignity.

Sebastian Herkner
Sebastian Herkner

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. During his studies he began to focus on designing objects and furniture, honing his keen sense for materials, colors and textures. For a short while he then worked for Stella McCartney in London. In the year 2006 Sebastian Herkner founded his own studio. Since that time, he has designed furniture, lamps and smaller items for manufacturers such as Ames, and Tradition, Cappellini, ClassiCon, Dedon, Ex.t, Fontana Arte, Gubi, Linteloo, Moroso, Pulpo, Rosenthal, Schramm Werkstätten, Thonet, Wittmann and Zanotta. Herkner also realizes interior architecture projects and museum and exhibition design. His works have won numerous accolades – among others the IF Award, the Iconic Award and the Elle Deco International Design Award (EDIDA). As Guest of Honor to imm cologne 2016, Sebastian Herkner provided the design for “Das Haus”. Maison&Objet has elected him 2019 “Designer of the Year”. In 2021 Sebastian Herkner won the most prestigious design award in Milan, the EDIDA award for Best Designer of the Year. 2022 Sebastian Herkner was one of the curators at Homo Faber next to Robert Wilson, Judith Clarke, Michele de Lucchi and Naoto Fukasawa commissioned by Michelangelo Foundation in Venice.

Seppo Koho
Seppo Koho
Seppo Koho (1967) is a Finnish designer. He studied at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki and at the Tampere University of Technology, before founding his own interior and design studio in 1995. Seppo Koho has designed furniture and lighting solutions for many Scandinavian companies, including the famous series of Secto lamps.
Shawn Place
Shawn Place

For furniture designer Shawn Place, a bold move from central Canada to the West Coast offered more than a change of scenery - it was exactly what he needed to launch a new career.

Originally from Brampton, Ontario, Shawn Place moved to Prince George in 2005. He was cycling through Gastown on a trip to Vancouver when he came across a contemporary furniture shop. Intrigued, he walked into the shop and, with a little luck and hard work, the rest fell into place, as if by chance

"I'd been working as a bicycle designer and was looking for a change and saw some of the furniture," recalls Place, who spoke to the Georgia Straight by phone while in town. "And I thought, 'Huh, I think I'll become a furniture designer. "

Shoichi Uchiyama
Shoichi Uchiyama
Shoichi Uchiyama is a Japanese designer. After working for the Yamagiwa company for five years, he founded his own studio, Shoichi Uchiyama Design Office, specialized in lighting solutions. He is best-known for designing the famous Enigma pendant lamps for Louis Poulsen.
Sidse Werner
Sidse Werner

The architect and industrial designer Sidse Werner (1931-1989) worked on furniture, textiles, lamps and glass.She believed that glass would always be there despite all sorts of artificial products, and that there would always be a place for beauty. As she said: It’s better to have one good thing that ten indifferent ones.

Sigurd Resell
Sigurd Resell

Sigurd Ressell is a Norwegian designer who has strongly influenced Scandinavian design. His avant-garde spirit has left an indelible mark on the history of design.

Ressell designed numerous steel and leather armchairs, sofas, chairs and even a bar (1960). In 1971, he designed the legendary Falcon chair. 

Ressell was born in 1920 in Norway. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Crafts, Art and Industry and graduated in 1947. Sigurd Ressell entered one of his designs in a competition. This was noticed by Niels Vodder, a designer who regularly collaborated with Finn Juhl, a leading figure in design. This led to the creation of a prototype based on his sketch. In 1958 Ressell received an award for his SR 600 chair at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibitions. Ressell had a profound effect on 20th century design.

Sigvard Bernadotte
Sigvard Bernadotte
Sigvard Bernadotte (1907 – 2002) was a Swedish industrial designer. Second son of the king Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, he lost the title of Prince after his marriage in 1934. His highly functional creations include various objects, from plastic household items to luxurious silver pieces. He collaborated with the Georg Jensen Silversmiths, for which he designed the Bernadotte cutlery set in 1939.
Simon Legald
Simon Legald

Simon Legald graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the summer of 2012. His work consists of both small and large scale products. Simon's designs are often created in a dialogue between craft and industry. He also likes to integrate the techniques needed to structure a product into the design by highlighting them visually.

Simon P. Henningsen
Simon P. Henningsen

Simon P. Henningsen (1920-1974) was a Danish architect and lighting designer with design in his DNA: he is the son of the legendary architect Poul Henningsen. Simon P. Henningsen worked closely with his father, including the design of Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, and followed in his footsteps by becoming chief architect of the gardens from 1948. During his career, he designed numerous lighting fixtures often characterised by impressive and playful shapes, distinctive geometric aesthetics and shimmering surfaces.

Sofie Refer
Sofie Refer
Sofie Refer wa born in 1974. In 2003 she graduated from the Danish Design School. Since she is focussing and fascinating in making lamps.
Space Copenhagen
Space Copenhagen

Space Copenhagen is a Copenhagen-based design studio founded in 2005 by Peter Bundgaard Rützou and Signe Bindslev Henriksen. The studio works in all disciplines, from interior design for private homes, hotels and restaurants around the world to art installations and art direction, furniture, lighting and fine objects.

Staffan Holm
Staffan Holm

Staffan Holm design studio is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The studio is working with interior architecture, industrial design and furniture design. 

Fascinated by inventions and craftsmanship at a young age, Staffan Holm later trained as a fine cabinet maker and gained his journeymans letter. He then continued to work as a carpenter for nearly four years and founded the Staffan Holm design studio 2008 after graduating School of Design and Crafts (HDK) in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Steffensen & Würtz
Steffensen & Würtz

With an Master in Industrial design in 2010, freelance design experience and design teaching we have a good experience and understanding of design, designthinking, furniture and industrial design. Furthermore we are very pleased that our work have been awarded with a “Red Dot – Best of the Best 2013” and “German Design Award – Special Mention 2015” for the kitchen design PIA by Allmilmö.

Stine Lundgaard Weigelt
Stine Lundgaard Weigelt

Born in 1978, Stine Lungaard Weigelt runs her own design studio Stine Weigelt Studio in Aarhus, Denmark. After graduating in 2014 from Design School Kolding, Stine Lungaard Weigelt has worked on several projects within furniture design, product design, art exhibitions and social design. Among others, she won the Finn Juhl Award in 2017.

Studio Kaksikko
Studio Kaksikko

Wesley Walters and Salla Luhtasela, known as the Kaksikko sign, won the first FDS Award competition in 2016 with their Perch bar stool. The designers not only share similar design tastes, but also a rich design background. The duo studied design at Aalto University in Helsinki, and their work has both Scandinavian and Japanese influences.

Susanne Grønlund
Susanne Grønlund

“Susanne Grønlund is an awarded danish designer, creating indoor and outdoor furniture – for private homes, companies and kids. Susanne also develops kids safety products, table toppings and aids for handicapped”

Sven Middelboe
Sven Middelboe

Sven Middelboe 1910 - 2001

Sven Middelboe had a degree in commerce, but design became his preferred path - and lighting his speciality. At the end of the 1940s he had his own company as a lighting manufacturer with the famous designer and architect Jørn Utzon.

Svend Aage Holm Sørensen
Svend Aage Holm Sørensen

The Danish designer Svend Aage Holm Sørensen (1913-2004) is known for his self-produced lighting designs from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Despite the timeliness of his designs on the vintage market, there is a lack of biographical information about the designer and his eponymous manufacturing company.

It is assumed that Holm Sørensen designed lamps for the well-known Danish lighting manufacturers Fog & Mørup and Lyfa in the 1950s, before establishing his own lighting company, Holm Sørensen A/S to produce and distribute his own designs.

Holm Sørensen's style varies considerably, with designs from the 1950s truly reflecting the mid-century modern lighting style, with clear influences from the De Stijl and Bauhaus movements. His muted floor and table lamps contain the classic tripod base that was popular at the time, referencing designs such as J. A. Busquet's H. Th. Pinocchio Lamp (1954).

From the 1960s onwards, Holm Sørensen's style changed completely. His designs range from colourful, geometric table and floor lamps to hanging lamps with unfinished brass and copper surfaces. These hanging lamps present Holm Sørensen's interpretation of the brutalist style, which was popular from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Originally invented by Swedish architect Hans Asplund, the style has been adopted internationally by many iconic designers, including Le Corbusier.

Søren Juul
Søren Juul

Søren Juul has had a lifelong experience within both design and architecture. He was trained as a cabinetmaker, then studied as a furniture designer at the Design School in Copenhagen and the architect school in Aarhus, where he subsequently was employed by architects Friis & Moltke for more than 40 years. Here he dealt primarily with furniture, lamps and fixtures for schools, colleges, hotels, offices etc. The design according to Søren Juul, should be simple, functional and honest and the quality should be no less than perfect.

Søren Nissen & Ebbe Gehl
Søren Nissen & Ebbe Gehl
Søren Nissen and Ebbe Gehl are two Danish cabinetmakers and designers. After training as cabinetmakers at Rud. Rasmussen’s carpentry, they went on to study at the Danish School of Art before forming a partnership as furniture designers in 1970. Their traditional know-how and creativity has won them a number of prestigious design awards.
Søren Refsgaard
Søren Refsgaard

Søren Refsgaard is a Danish designer specialized in lighting, furniture, and home accessories. Refsgaard has collaborated with brands such as Stelton and Skagerak, and his style is strongly influenced by the functionality and simplicity of the Scandinavian design traditions. Refsgaard has been awarded the Red Dot Design Award in 2017 and the Design Plus Award in 2014.

TAF
TAF

TAF is an architecture studio. TAF is a graphic zoom on the family name Gustafson. TAF is French slang for work. TAF is Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson, who founded the studio in the Södermalm district in Stockholm, Sweden.

Takagi & Homstvedt
Takagi & Homstvedt

While Hallgeir Homstvedt and Jonah Takagi have been friends for years, their first collaboration as designers came in 2016 as part of an exhibition curated by the influential design blog Sight Unseen and sponsored by the Embassy of Norway. To date they have designed and developed products for a range of international brands that include Roll & Hill, Le Klint, Design Within Reach, Dims and L.K. Hjelle.

Tapio Wirkkala
Tapio Wirkkala
Tapio Wirkkala (1915 - 1985) was a great Finnish designer. He was a very versatile artist and his work ranged from refrigerators, glasses and furniture, to jewelry. He also designed the Finnish bank notes, introduced in 1955.
Teresa Lundmark & Gustav Winsth
Teresa Lundmark & Gustav Winsth

Teresa Lundmark and Gustav Winsth, two students attending Beckmans College of Design, recently collaborated with Gärsnäs, a family-owned factory of furniture-makers in Österlen, Sweden to design their own interpretation of the modern daybed, calling it Dag.

Thau & Kallio
Thau & Kallio

Finnish designer Sami Kallio and Danish designer Jakob Thau have joined forces to create the Betty TK1 chair for & Tradition.

Kallio grew up in Finland and received a master's degree in design from the Gothenburg School of Design and Crafts. Thau grew up in Denmark and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design with a Master's degree.

Both went on to train as cabinetmakers, moving forward to execute their own timeless and purposeful designs; reflecting traditional techniques that have been reworked in a contemporary context.

Thomas E. Alken
Thomas E. Alken

Since graduating from the Danish School of Design in 1997, Thomas E. Alken (born 1970) has been recognised as one of Denmark's leading industrial designers of recent years. For over 20 years, he has run the Copenhagen-based design company Format Design. Thanks to his great sense of functionality, Thomas E. Alken's furniture not only makes you sit comfortably, it also makes you feel at home. Like Børge Mogensen and previous FDB furniture designers, he takes the human body and movement as his starting point, so that the furniture reflects the social dimension of the human being. A chair should not only be beautiful, it should also be comfortable.

Thomas Jenkins
Thomas Jenkins

Thomas Jenkins is a British industrial designer based in Oslo whose work explores different materials, craft skills and industrial production methods.

Jenkins founded his own studio in 2010,

and he also works at the branding agency WORK. Jenkins describes his design vision with the words

"quality over fashion".

Thomas Pedersen
Thomas Pedersen
Thomas Pedersen is a young Hungarian designer. In 2002 during his studies at the Aarhus school of Architecture, he designed the famous Stingray rocking chair in metal and glass fibre, for his end of year project. The chair was immediately successful and helped kick-start his career as a designer.
Thomas Sandell
Thomas Sandell

Thomas Sandell (born 1959) studied at the Royal Polytechnic School, from which he graduated in 1985. In 1995 he co-founded the design agency sandellsandberg, together with Ulf Sandberg and Joakim Uebel.

Thore Lassen & Søren Nielsen, MDD
Thore Lassen & Søren Nielsen, MDD
Thore Lassen and Søren Nielsen are two Danish designers. After studying at the Aarhus School of Architecture, they took part in a research project concerning school furniture at the Danish Ministry of Education. They later founded their own company, Ars Design, in 1981 and worked together until Nielsen’s death in 2004.
Tim Duus Jacobsen
Tim Duus Jacobsen

Medal-receiving, fully qualified Cabinetmaker from Aksel Kjersgaard and Risskov Møbelsnedkeri.

 To work with living material can be challenging. However, for me, it is exactly what makes me love my profession. As a cabinetmaker at Duus & Møller my prominent task is to utilize the entire potential of the quality materials and to create the furniture in an innovative way, however, still, with the traditional craftsmanship in mind.

For me, joinery is not only an industry, but a lifestyle. I am inspired by the beauty and elegance I find in the Scandinavian nature, which I try to extend into our furniture by the use of creative solutions and a focus on sustainability. 

Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva (1926 – 2006) was a Finnish designer and sculptor, best-known for his innovative glass objects, designed to be both beautiful and functional. He also enjoyed working with other materials such as metal, wood, textile and porcelain. One of his greatest pieces is the Sarpaneva stewpot enameled in cast-iron.
Tom Nybroe
Tom Nybroe
Designer and wine expert Tom Nybroe is best-known for his award winning series of wine glasses, “Perfection”, designed for Holmegaard.
Tom Stepp
Tom Stepp

Tom Stepp is a Danish architect and designer. After finishing his studies at the Danish Academy of Architecture in 1980, he founded his own design studio, Tom Stepp, where he designs furniture, lighting solutions and other decorative objects. His rather modern creations are mainly thought-out for contemporary interiors. One of his most famous designs is the elegant Prime Time swivel chair.

Torbjørn Afdal
Torbjørn Afdal

Torbjørn Afdal (1917 - 1999) started as a designer at Bruksbo Tegnekontor in 1946 and was one of the most prolific Norwegian designers of the post-war period. Today, Afdal is considered one of Norway's most famous designers. His furniture is in the collections of the White House and the Emperor of Japan. Torbjørn Afdal was awarded the gold medal at the 1959 So wohnt Europa craft fair in Munich for work including the Form dining set.

Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen
Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen

Tove and Edvard Kindt-Larsen played an important role in the development of Danish furniture design through their participation in the exhibitions of the Cabinetmakers' Guild from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Tove and Edvard married in 1937 and together they established a studio to work on furniture design, jewellery, accessories, textiles and architecture. Edvard was an architect by training and made a name for himself with a large-scale hotel project by the lakes in Copenhagen. Tove studied under Kaare Klint at the furniture design department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts after years of designing furniture.

Troels Grum Schwensen
Troels Grum Schwensen
Troels Grum Schwensen (born 1958) founded his design studio specialized in furniture design, interior design and architecture, in 1989. He was also named head of furniture design at the Copenhagen School of Design. Troels Grum Schwensen today works with the leading Danish and international furniture brands.
Ulrica Hydman-Vallien
Ulrica Hydman-Vallien
Ulrica Hydman-Vallien is a highly versatile Swedish artist, well-known for her creations made of glass, fabric and clay. After studying at the Decorative Arts and Design School in Stockholm, she travelled to the United States, then Mexico, before joining the Kosta Boda company in 1972. She famously set up an ingenious system allowing large-scale customization and thus only creating unique pieces. Her Mine tableware collection is particularly successful worldwide.
VE2
VE2

VE2 is a design studio founded in 2007 by Tilde Nygaard, Hugo Dines Schmidt and Morten Leuritzen, who each studied architecture and industrial design. The company is specialized in interior design, product development and graphic design.

Vermund Larsen
Vermund Larsen

Vermund Larsen was a Danish designer and furniture maker. Larsen became known for his work while living in Aalborg, an industrial city in northern Denmark. Larsen is best known for creating Europe's first fibreglass chair in 1955.

Verner Panton
Verner Panton
Verner Panton studied at Odense Technical College before enrolling at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen as an architecture student. He worked from 1950-52 in the architectural firm of Arne Jacobsen, and in 1955 founded an independent studio for architecture and design. Among his most important designs are Moon Lamp and for all Panton Chair, perhaps the most iconic chair design of all times. Verner Panton's passion for bright colours and geometric patterns also manifested itself in an extensive range of textile designs, such as Geometri. In addition to designing furniture and textiles, Verner Panton was also responsible for numerous imaginative interior design projects.
Viggo Boesen
Viggo Boesen

Danish modernist architect Viggo Boesn was a follower of Scandinavian functionalism (funkis-style), which opts for soft, rounded forms that fit the figure.

shapes that fit the figure. The forms must be fluid, they are often organic but always functional and timeless.

In particular, he created a new concept of modernist and avant-garde houses that were very successful in Denmark, while working on upholstered armchairs and rattan furniture.

Vihelm Lauritzen
Vihelm Lauritzen

Vihelm Lauritzen was born in 1894 in Denmark and deceased in 1984, he was considered to be one of the most important and leading architect of the danish Functionalism, he is the author of numerous referent constructions of this architecture current in Denmark.
Between them, The radiohus building, the Nørrebro theatre and the terminal 39 at Kastrup airport are well representative.
Despite beeing one of the most influent, recognised and productive danish architect, Vihelm lauritzen, master in uniting materials and light, dedicated his life improving and developing his lamps, wich combined perfecly with his architectural realisations.

Vilhelm Wohlert
Vilhelm Wohlert
Vilhelm Wohlert (1920 – 2007) was a Danish architect and designer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Kaare Klint, he worked on the Louisiana Modern Art Museum project with Jorgen Bo for over thirty years. He also worked on the conception and restoration of a number of churches.
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe is without a doubt the most famous Swedish silversmiths of the post-war period. After studying at the Academy of Industrial Arts in Stockholm, she moved to Paris, where she quickly became successful thanks to her beautiful jewelry designs. She also collaborated with the Danish silversmiths Georg Jensen, for whom she designed a number of pendants (including the Dew-Drop and Infinity collections), rings and earrings, but also the famous Vivianna 326 bracelet watch.

Welling/Ludvik
Welling/Ludvik

Hee Welling (Denmark) and Gudmundur Ludvik (Iceland) are contributing to the renewal of environmentally friendly design that focuses on the personal experience. The industrial design of Welling / Ludvik's industrial design aims to achieve the best possible solution seen from a number of different perspectives. Comfort, materials, construction, price and environment are all determining factors in this are all determining factors in this approach to design, which are also linked to the contemporary state of technology and the challenges of technology and the challenges of society. Welling / Ludvik always seeks to maximise the potential of modern manufacturing in their designs.

Willumsen & Engholm
Willumsen & Engholm

The designers Svend Åge Willumsen and Hans Engholm, who worked as cabinetmakers for Fritz Hansen, became known for the Tray table designed and manufactured for the company in 1958. The designers thus proved not only their excellent woodworking skills but also their talent as designers.

Yngve Ekström
Yngve Ekström

Yngve Ekström (1913-1988) was born in Hagafors in Småland, Sweden, which happened to be where the country's oldest furniture industry was placed. He studied drawing, sculpture, painting, music and art history. He founded Swedese in 1945 and was leading the company right up until his death in 1988.

His career coincided in time with the best part of the postwar modern movement and together with names including Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjaerholm he was at the core of a generation designers who made the concept "Scandinavian Modern" famous all over the world.

Ekström's furniture have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Munich and Belgrade, to name a few places, and are represented in many modern permanent collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.