Nordic style combines Germany's idea of advocating practical functions with local traditional crafts, and its humanized design makes it famous internationally. It gradually formed a unique style of the system in the 1940s. The typical characteristics of Nordic design are advocating nature and respecting traditional technology.
In the mid-20th century, the rapid development of the Nordic economy made the Nordic people have a high welfare system. However, the Nordic people still attach importance to the practicality of products, and the simple and natural aesthetics are still passed down. The residential culture and design concept in northern Europe are deeply influenced. Therefore, even in the industrial age, Nordic product design still retains the elements of humanistic care for users' physical and mental health. Tradition and fashion innovation are used incisively and vividly by Nordic designers.
The following are 23 top Nordic designers, hoping to deepen your understanding of Nordic design.
1BorgeMogensen
Borgemegensen was born in aalborg in 19 14. 1936- 1938 studied furniture design at the Copenhagen school of arts and crafts, and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in 1938+0942. After graduation, he entered FDB Furniture Design Studio as the brand director.
BorgeMogensen is committed to designing furniture that meets the needs of the public. He believes that good furniture should not be enjoyed by only a few people, but should be owned by all. In order to realize the ideal that "every Dane can afford high-quality furniture", B_rgeMogensen has designed a series of cheap furniture with simple and practical functions.
BorgeMogensen's style takes into account both traditional and modern styles and pays attention to functionalism. In 1960s, chairs made of wood and leather, inspired by Africa, became a primitivism classic popular in Danish furniture design.
Borgemegensen, who died young in 1972, left many classic works, such as HuntingChair in 1950, SpanishChair in 1958, WingbackChair in 1963 and so on. Borgemegensen designed countless high-quality classic furniture in his life and established an immortal legendary position in the hearts of the world.
2JanneKyttanen
JanneKyttanen, 1974 was born in Hameenlinna, Finland, and is a leading figure behind Rapidprototyping technology. He uses rapid prototyping technology to develop 3D industrial design products.
After graduating in 2000, JanneKyttanen came to Materialize Company with these creative concepts, which sponsored his high-tech development of mold technology. The cooperative relationship between them has created a new material department. MGX, and created the first batch of designer lamps through 3D molding technology, which was published at Milan Furniture Fair in 2003. JanneKyttanen's innovative 3D molding technology has greatly changed the way objects are manufactured, creating greater freedom for the gap between creativity and actual production.
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PeterSvarrer was born in 1957, and graduated from Danish Art Institute in 198 1. In addition to running his own glass studio for more than 20 years, PeterSvarrer is also a lecturer at the School of Design. 1997 began to cooperate with the Danish brand Holmegaard with a long history and culture to design glassware, and won many international design awards.
PeterSvatter is a very important design driving force of the century-old Danish brand Holmegaard in the past decade. With his irreplaceable passion for glass materials and unique vision, PeterSvatter can always naturally reveal various elements of Nordic living environment and design works.
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4 tool design
ToolsDesign, a design team from Denmark, was founded by ClausJensen and HenrikHolb_k in 1989. The ToolsDesign team, which is famous for its concise and innovative design orientation, has quickly won more than 250 design awards around the world in decades, which can be said to be the leading design representative with the most awards in contemporary Danish design.
ToolsDesign has a wide range of design fields, from electrical appliances to medical equipment and household necessities. Excellent works with complete functions and aesthetic feeling have always been the design core of ToolsDesign, approaching products from the user's point of view, paying attention to aesthetics while not forgetting important practical needs. Born in 1960, HenrikHolb_k, who graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, said: "We want simple, beautiful and really useful products!" .
ToolsDesign, as the main design driving force behind the household goods brand EvaSolo, has played an important role in the revival of Danish brands with a history of nearly 100 years. The current website is based on ToolsDesign in the old industrial zone in the northwest of Copenhagen, where some "extra elements" are constantly added to the design products; A design team with unlimited potential, with product management, design and communication skills, creates design works close to lifestyle; ToolsDesign continues to attract global attention with its attractive and innovative functional design products.
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5SeppoKoho
SeppoKoho was born in rovaniemi, Finland with a degree in art and architecture. After years of rich experience working in an architect's office, he founded Seppokoho, an interior and design studio in Helsinki from 65438 to 0995. SeppoKoho has deep expertise in architecture and interior design. With the concept of space and aesthetic feeling extracted from it, he began to design lamps, invited the soft interaction between space and light source, and customized space-specific furniture for project customers, such as Nokia.
SeppoKoho pays great attention to the balance of space distribution, and his unique exquisiteness is his characteristic in the design field. His brand SectoDesignOy is full of Nordic Scandinavian style, and his series of lamps have made him famous in the design field and won many design awards related to aesthetics.
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6NannaDitzel
NannaDitzel, a legendary Danish female designer, is rich in creativity. She was trained as a professional joiner and was famous for her bold and innovative furniture design, which met the needs of the public. At the age when most people have retired, Nanna has been full of creativity in furniture, jewelry and fabric design.
In the years after the war, NannaDitzel continued to experiment with new materials and technologies. I have tried all kinds of glass fiber, wicker products, rubber and other materials, and also dabbled in various professional fields, such as furniture making, jewelry design, tableware, applied art, fabric creation and so on.
NannaDitzel, 1923 was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and received professional carpenter training before attending the RoyalAcademyofFineArts in Denmark. 1946 after graduating from the department of furniture design, he and his first husband, J_rgenDitzel, opened a personal studio. During the operation of the studio, it won the silver award and gold award in Milan Triennial for many times, and it was not until J_rgenDitzel died in 196 1 that the studio came to an end. 1962, NannaDitzel's OneWoman exhibition began to be exhibited all over the world. It has been exhibited in London, Berlin, new york, Vienna, London, Stockholm, Milan, Paris and Denmark for more than 30 years. Nanaditzel 1996 was awarded the title of Royal Honorary Designer by the Royal Society of Art in London, and 1998 was awarded the Lifetime Art Award by the Danish Ministry of Culture.
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7 Hans Sandegren Jacobson
Hans Sandgrenjakobsen1963 was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Influenced by grandpa carpenter, he learned the craft of carpentry very early. After graduating from the Danish Institute of Design, he won a scholarship to continue studying design in the United States and Japan, and then joined the studio of NannaDitzel, a well-known Danish female designer. In just a few years, she has won many well-known awards and is a high-profile star among the younger generation of Danish designers.
HansSandgrenJakobsen, a craftsman and designer, thinks that design should not only be beautiful, but also have its functions and functions. Design is not art, but a product that conforms to people's general use. HansSandgrenJakobsen can combine functionality and minimalist form perfectly through the talent of craftsman technology. He (America, Japan, Spain) has traveled around the world many times, and he can often turn what he saw and heard during his travels into inspiration and motivation for his creation.
In the process of design, innovation, aesthetics and functionality are three very important elements that HansSandgrenJakobsen pays special attention to. HansSandgrenJakobsen, who is deeply influenced by American Shakers, also believes in "Beautydependsonfunctionality". On the basis of existing design, we constantly seek innovative breakthroughs, and create universality that can stand the test of the times with concise and clean design aesthetics.
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8VernerPanton
VernerPanton, the most influential designer in Denmark, studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, but what made him famous later was not his architectural works, but his daily necessities and furniture.
Pan Dun's vivid and straightforward color skills, making good use of geometric figures, have created many futuristic designs, and each work can stimulate users' infinite imagination. This style is based on Pan Dun's bold attempts in color and building materials, and he did overcome many conceptual and technical limitations, and became the pioneer of common materials (such as plastic, acrylic, glass fiber, sponge rubber, etc.) in today's home design. ) and pioneers of new visual and sensory experiences.
VernerPanton took the lead in completing the world's first integrated plastic ejection chair in 1959, which is the world-famous PantonChair. It not only became a collection classic, but also established VernerPanton's position.
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9TrineAnderson
Trine grew up in Jylland, a small town in Denmark. Her family runs a clothing factory. Trine has a great talent for design since she was a child. She knows how to design and make clothes for dolls with the leftover cloth from the factory. She founded Ferm-LIVING in 2005. Her works combine imagination with a unique style that breaks through tradition, and naturally outline the smooth lines and realistic artistic conception of Nordic beauty from a fashionable and fresh perspective. Designer official website:
10PoulChristiansen
PoulChristiansen, a Danish architect, was born in 1947 and graduated from RoyalDanishAcademyofFineArts, 1973. During the period of 1969- 1987, PoulChristiansen brought innovation and expected changes to the original linear pleated lamp strip of LeKlint, a century-old lamp manufacturer.
PoulChristiansen actively develops and breaks through the technical difficulties, and transforms the folding efforts into a more beautiful architectural appearance through mathematical calculus. Chord-arc waves and specially treated materials show a sense of flow of lines and light.
PoulChristiansen and Russian designer BorisBerlin set up a design company KomplotDesign in 1987, whose services include furniture, industrial design and graphic design. KomplotDesign is favored by many well-known furniture factories, including Gubi and NormanCopenhagen. The chair designed for Guppy is a single-board chair made of innovative 3d technology, which has been collected in MOMA Museum of Modern Art and exhibited for a long time.
1 1MonicaF_rster
MonicaF _ rster is one of the representatives of contemporary Swedish furniture design, and has designed many internationally renowned furniture products. She was born in a village near the polar circle in northern Sweden. Her works are famous for their pure forms, novel materials and techniques. He often creates in an interdisciplinary and diversified way, constantly inventing and innovating the categories of industrial design.
MonicaF_rster's studio is located in Stockholm, and has cooperated with international brands such as Cappellini, PoltronaFrau, DePadova, Bernhardt, Whirlpool, Vibia, Tacchini, Modus, Offecct and Swedese. The opportunity of long-term cooperation with furniture manufacturers gives MonicaF _ rster enough resources and opportunities to cooperate with the top R&D team to realize unlimited innovative design. MonicaF_rster's design represents not only one person, but the whole team behind it.
MonicaF_rster, an internationally renowned designer, draws inspiration from nature and is curious about new materials and technologies. Nordic handicrafts, Asian cuisine, fashion and nature. These diverse fragments combine the powerful, practical and poetic design products of MonicaF_rster.
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12MattiasSt_hlbom
MattiasSt_hlbom likes to start with simple ideas and create obvious but simple objects with simple methods and materials.
MattiasSt_hlbom, born in 197 1, is a famous Swedish architect and designer. MattiasSt_hlbom studied architecture and furniture design at farts University, technology and design at Stockholm, and ethnology and art at two local universities.
He designs furniture and kitchen supplies for well-known Swedish companies, and also works in the field of design in new york. In 2002, he started to run TAF architectural design company with gabriela gustafson. Starting from the items that are easy to see in daily life, people can cherish the ordinary and extraordinary in life through the magic of design.
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13 Majesola
MaijaIsola is a very outstanding contemporary female designer. Her works are influenced by the colors of multi-cultural images, with strong national flavor and lively color levels. The pattern UNIKKO (Finnish meaning poppy) designed by her for the Finnish brand Marimekko has become a representative of a classic style, and its position is completely irreplaceable for the Nordic design community.
MaijaIsola, 1927 was born in Finland and studied painting at Helsinki Institute of Technology. Is the first full-time designer hired by printex (the predecessor of marimekko) company, and has become the chief designer of interior fabrics. Her most famous printed totem, Unikko, is still a registered trademark of Marrimekko.
MaijaIsola is a versatile and bold artist who has created more than 500 design pictures. The experience of traveling to Yugoslavia, Italy and Algeria blended the inspiration of different cultural styles from many countries for her design. From 65438 to 0980, she began to design bolder images and decorative designs with her daughter (Kristina), and Kristina continued to work as a designer in Marimekko.
14 klausrat
Klaus Lat 1990 graduated from the Industrial Design Department of Aarhus Institute of Architecture and became an industrial designer. . From 1990 to 1996, he worked as the designer of Lego Group ModulexA/S in Bilong. From 65438 to 0997, he founded KlausRathDesign Design Company, and designed for Siemens, Motorola, Modulex, GNNetcom and other brands.
Klaus Lat's design emphasizes technology and craft, and he combines technology and skill perfectly. He not only developed high-tech production methods, but also owned two technical patents for innovative design. At the same time, his design features clean lines, simple and practical functions, and always maintains the tradition of Scandinavian design.
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15 John brower
Designer Johanbrauer1960 was born in Denmark, and his experience of traveling around the world made him experience almost all kinds of adventures and jobs around the world, and also visited and collected various cultural impressions. These rich life experiences and cross-disciplinary interests and exploration and research have enabled him to have a multi-faceted and in-depth understanding of different cultures, creating his broad and open mind and rich sources of design inspiration.
It is JohnBrauer's design style to deeply participate in the design process and pursue the development of new value of goods. His design concept is to convey the deep meaning of commodities and create new value for commodities. The dreamland magic towel table, which won the British Industry Award in 2007, is a successful example of using innovative construction methods to create the shape of nature.
16ArneJacobsen
ArneJacobsen is the most influential architect and industrial designer in Denmark, the number one figure of Danish functionalism and the biggest representative of Nordic minimalist design. ArneJacobsen's famous classic chairs, such as EggChair, AntChair, SwanChair, etc., can be seen that there are no redundant lines or structures at all. The chair achieves the best use function with the simplest curve, and its graceful and elegant posture lasts for a long time.
ArneJacobsen, who studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, won the prize in the "HouseofFuture Design Competition" organized by the Danish Architectural Association after graduation. Since then, his reputation and ultra-modern design style have spread rapidly. Jacobson's design has been calculated very accurately, and perfection is required for the smallest part. For example, when he designed St. Catherine's College for Oxford University in England, he also specifically requested to be famous in the contract. He designed all areas of this land, including landscape and accessories, and this college became his masterpiece in the future.
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17 Jacob Wagner
JakobWagner is an outstanding contemporary designer in Northern Europe. Many of his works have won numerous awards and have been collected by museums. His works often appear in exhibitions in northern Europe and around the world.
1963 was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and 1992 graduated from the product design department of ArtCenterinMontreux, Switzerland. In the same year, I set up my own studio and initially cooperated with sports and professional equipment companies, such as Porsche and Pioneer. Later, the design began to turn to household items.
JakobWagner's design often shows the tension between different features with strong contrast, and combines seemingly opposing concepts, such as motion and stillness, male and female, organic and geometry. Through this Zhang Liwei product, new life is injected, which challenges the senses and constantly tempts and attracts our feelings and emotions. The kinetic energy of JakobWagner's design also comes from these various meaningful forms
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18HansJ。 Wegner
Hansji. Wegner 19 14 Denmark was born in a shoemaker's family. He completed his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the age of 17, and went to the handicraft school in Copenhagen at the age of 20.
Young architect Wegener has the opportunity to cooperate with many senior designers. 1940 cooperated with ArneJacobsen and ErikM_ller to build the furniture design of _rhus City Hall. In the same year, Wegner cooperated with carpenter JohannesHansen to raise his skill to a new level.
1943, he founded his own design studio and began to create a series of China chairs every other year. The creative inspiration of porcelain chairs comes from the photos of Danish businessmen. Among them, "WishboneChair" is one of the most popular Wegner chairs since 1949.
This round chair, designed in 1949, appeared on the front page of American Interior magazine and was praised as the most beautiful chair in the world. RoundChair often appears in various important international occasions, such as 1960 presidential TV debate between US Vice Presidents Nixon and Kennedy, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. The perfect combination of HansJ. Wegener carpenters and designers faithfully present the most beautiful forms with precise techniques.
19FormUsWithLove
FORMUSWITHLOVE uses one word to describe himself-dedication. This young Swedish design studio will not wait for good things to happen out of thin air, but actively create and expand its own design. FORMUSWITHLOVE has a wide range of design fields, and everything related to product design is the object of FUWL's attention.
FormUsWithLove was founded in 2005 by JohnL_fgren, JonasPettersson and PetrusPalmér, who met in the product design course of KalmerUniversity. FormUsWithLove takes innovation, interaction and love as its design concept.
For FUWL, the biggest gain from cooperation with various furniture brands (Axcent, Zero, DesignHouseStockholm, Materia, Mitab, Muuto, etc.). ) is not the result of the product, but the experience of thinking, creating, designing and producing in the whole process. These cooperation experiences constantly stimulate FUWL to make use of the breakthrough point of innovation and infiltrate some humor and wit into the minimalist style belonging to 2 1 century.
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20EeroSaarinen
Errol Saarinen is one of the most prolific, subversive and controversial architects in the 20th century. EeroSaarinen grew up in a design family. His mother is a textile artist LojaSaarinen, his father ElielSaarinen is a famous architect and land planner, and his sister is also an interior designer.
Famous architectural designs at home and abroad have shaped the international image of the United States after World War II, such as Dulles International Airport, St. Louis Memorial, General Motors Technology Center, and TWATerminal of Kennedy International Airport. These powerful symbols of American values are the representative works of Errol Saarinen.
Furniture design has been produced throughout his creative career. EeroSaarinen's rich, dexterous and original furniture can be said to be the representative of American furniture design in the 1950s. 1940, he and CharlesEames won the first prize in MOMA Organic Furniture Design Competition, and then established a long-term cooperative relationship with KnollAssociates. The application of new materials, the innovation of architectural technology and the innovation of sculpture form make every object designed by EeroSaarinen have a strong architectural sense in it.
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2 1EeroAarnio
Errol Arnold was born in Finland on 1932. 1954- 1957 studied in Helsinki InstituteofIndustrialArts, 1962 set up a personal studio to engage in interior design and industrial design. Many of his works have won world fame and won many industrial design awards.
As a professor and interior designer, he began to challenge to break the traditional furniture design norms in 1960, and instead tried plastics, colorful colors and organic forms to create more novel and practical fashion furniture.
The plastic works he designed became famous all over the world. 1963, he designed the chair theBall with fiberglass, and 1968 designed Bubble, which not only caused widespread repercussions because it accurately reflected the popular culture at that time, but also served as a weather vane in the design field. Glass fiber has also become one of the favorite materials used by EeroAarnio.
EeroAarnio's works combine culture, fashion, aesthetics and function. It has won numerous awards internationally, and its works have been collected and exhibited by major index museums in the world, such as VictoriaandAlbertMuseum in London, MoMA in new york and VitraDesignMuseum in Germany.
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22Bj_rnDahlstr_m
Bj_rnDahlstr_m is a very famous designer in Sweden. /kloc-born in 0/950, engaged in graphic animation design in 1970s. 1982 set up its own design company, initially focusing on graphic design cases of Ericsson, Scania and AtlasCopco.
Slowly, Bj_rn began to extend its design talent to product design, with many kinds, such as Playsam's children's toys, Skeppshult bicycles, Krups coffee machines, Marimekko's fabric design, Magis, Plank and Daviddesign's furniture. His style is low-key and simple, with irreplaceable unique elegance.
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23 Alva Alarto
Albarral Toto is an important figure who started modern design in Northern Europe, covering architecture, furniture, textiles, glassware and so on. I was born in Kuortane, a small town in Finland, and grew up in a place with the most beautiful natural beauty and dreamy lakes. Albarral Toto showed artistic talent from an early age, especially good at painting and fine arts. At the age of fourteen, he began to draw illustrations for local publications. Although he became an architect when he grew up, AlvarAalto was very interested in movies and other things when he was a child. He once set up a small tent on his top floor.
Albarral Toto is unique in creating drama space. Therefore, in the early 20th century, when the economy took off and standardization and mass production were taking place all over the world, he was able to skillfully integrate sensibility and standardization into buildings to show their natural organic nature. AlvarAalto's design style ranges from early classical, functional and organic to later experiments and commemorative works. It can be seen that he was constantly creating classics and was influenced by them in his early days.