In the 1920s, the design theme of public services determined that Nordic style design became popular around the world. Functionalism shined at the Stockholm Exposition in 1930, marking its breakthrough in Scandinavia and its integration with the world.
Nordic style combines the German concept of advocating practical functions with its local traditional craftsmanship. Its humane design makes it internationally renowned. It gradually formed a systematic and unique style in the 1940s. The typical characteristics of Nordic design are advocating nature and respecting traditional craftsmanship.
The rapid economic development of Northern Europe in the mid-20th century gave Nordic people a high welfare system. However, Nordic people still attach great importance to the practicality of products, and their simple and natural aesthetics are still inherited. Nordic residential culture and design concepts are deeply influenced. Therefore, even in the industrial age, Nordic product design still retains elements of humanistic care that focus on the physical and mental health of users. Tradition and fashion innovation are used vividly by Nordic designers.
The following introduces you to 23 top Nordic designers, hoping to deepen your understanding of Nordic design.
1 Borge Mogensen
Borge Mogensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark in 1914. He studied furniture design at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts in Denmark from 1936 to 1938, and then studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1938 to 1942. After graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he joined FDB Furniture Design Studio as the brand director.
Borge Mogensen is committed to designing furniture that meets the needs of the public. He believes that good furniture should not only be appreciated by a few people, but should be owned by everyone. In order to achieve "let everyone With the ideal that all Danes can afford high-quality furniture, B?rge Mogensen has designed a series of affordable furniture that is both simple and functional.
Borge Mogensen’s style focuses on combining traditional and modern styles, and pays attention to functionalism. In the 1940s and 1950s, chairs inspired by Africa and made of wood, leather and other materials became popular in the 1950s. A primitivist classic in Danish furniture design.
Borge Mogensen, who died young in 1972, left behind many classic representative works, such as the Hunting Chair in 1950, the Spanish Chair in 1958, the Wingback Chair in 1963, etc. Borge Mogensen designed countless high-end chairs throughout his life. The quality of classic furniture has established an immortal legend in the hearts of the world, and his design spirit continues to influence the world today.
2 Janne Kyttanen
Designer Janne Kyttanen, who was born in Hameenlinna, Finland in 1974, is the leading figure behind (Rapid prototyping) technology. He used the development of rapid prototyping technology Produce 3D molded industrial design products.
After graduating in 2000, Janne Kyttanen took these creative concepts to Materialize, a company that had previously sponsored his high-tech development mold technology. The cooperative relationship created a new Materialize .MGX department and created the first batch of designer lamps through 3D molding technology, which were released at the 2003 Milan Furniture Fair. Janne Kyttanen's innovative 3D molding technology has significantly changed the way objects are produced, creating a greater degree of freedom in the gap between creativity and actual production.
Designer’s official website: jannekyttanen.com
3 Peter Svarrer
Peter Svarrer, born in 1957, graduated from the Danish School of Decorative Art in 1981 School of Art).
In addition to running his own glass workshop that has been maintained for more than 20 years, Peter Svarrer also works as a lecturer at a design college. In 1997, he began cooperating with Holmegaard, a Danish brand with a long history and culture, to design glassware, and has won recognition from many international design awards.
Peter Svatter has been a very important design driving force for the century-old Danish brand Holmegaard over the past decade. With his irreplaceable enthusiasm and unique vision for glass materials, Peter Svatter is always able to naturally reveal various elements of the Nordic living environment in his design works.
Designer’s official website: www.svarrerglas.dk
4 Tools Design
Tools Design, a design team from Denmark, was founded in 1989 by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holb?k. Established in year. The Tools Design design team, known for its simple and innovative design orientation, has quickly won more than 250 design awards around the world in the past few decades. It can be said that it is the most award-winning leading design representative in contemporary Danish design.
Tools Design's design field is very broad, and its design products range from electrical appliances to medical equipment and home furnishings. Outstanding works that are both functional and aesthetic have always been the core of Tools Design's design. We approach products from the user's perspective, paying attention to aesthetics while not forgetting important practical needs. Henrik Holb?k, who was born in 1960 and graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, said, "What we want is simple, beautiful and truly useful products!".
Tools Design, the main design force behind the home furnishings brand Eva Solo, has played an important role in the revival of the Danish brand with a history of nearly a century. The current location is Tools Design, which is based in the old industrial area northwest of Copenhagen. Here, we continue to add some "extra elements" to the design products; the design team with unlimited potential, with the ability to manage design products and communication, creates Producing design works that are close to life style; Tools Design continues to attract global attention with functional design products that are beautiful, attractive, and highly creative and innovative.
Designer’s official website: www.toolsdesign.com
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5 Seppo Koho
Seppo Koho was born in Rovaniemi, Finland, with a degree in Art and Architecture. After several years of extensive experience working in architect offices, in 1995 he founded Interior and Design Studio Seppo Koho in Helsinki. Seppo Koho has profound expertise in architecture and interior design. Based on the spatial concepts and aesthetics he extracted, he began to design lamps, using the softness of the light source to invite further interaction in the space. He has also provided projects for clients such as Nokia Etc., tailor-made furniture exclusive to the space.
Seppo Koho attaches great importance to the balance of space configuration, and his unique delicacy is his characteristic in the design world. The brand he founded, Secto Design Oy, is full of Nordic and Scandinavian style, and the lamps it releases The series also gave him a high reputation in the design world, and he won a number of aesthetic-related design awards.
Designer’s official website: www.sectodesign.fi
6 Nanna Ditzel
Danish legendary female designer Nanna Ditzel has abundant creativity and has been trained by professional designers. Trained as a carpenter, she is world-famous for her bold and innovative furniture designs that meet popular needs.
At an age when most people have retired, Nanna has been working tirelessly on the road of designing furniture, jewelry and fabrics.
Nanna Ditzel continued to experiment with new materials and techniques in the postwar years. He has tried various materials such as fiberglass, wicker products, and rubber, and has also dabbled in diverse professional fields, such as furniture production, jewelry design, tableware, applied art, and textile creation.
Nanna Ditzel was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1923. She was trained as a professional carpenter before attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating from the Department of Furniture Design in 1946, he opened his own studio with his first husband, J?rgen Ditzel. During the operation of the studio, it won many silver and gold medals from the Milan Triennale. It was not until the death of J?rgen Ditzel in 1961 that the studio ended. In 1962, Nanna Ditzel's One Woman exhibition began to be exhibited around the world. For more than thirty years, it toured London, Berlin, New York, Vienna, London, Stockholm, Milan, Paris, Denmark... and other places. Nanna Ditzel received the title of Royal Honorary Designer from the Royal Society of Arts in London in 1996 and the Lifetime Art Award from the Danish Ministry of Culture in 1998.
Designer’s official website: www.nanna-ditzel-design.dk
7 Hans Sandgren Jakobsen
Hans Sandgren Jakobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1963. Influenced by my grandpa, a joiner master, I learned the art of carpentry very early. After graduating from the Danish Design Institute, he received a scholarship to continue his design studies in the United States and Japan, and then joined the studio of Nanna Ditzel, a well-known Danish female designer. In just a few years, he has won recognition from many well-known awards and is a high-profile rising star among the younger generation of Danish designers.
Hans Sandgren Jakobsen, a craftsman and designer, believes that design should not only be beautiful, but also have functions and functions; design is not art, but a product that can be universally used by people. Hans Sandgren Jakobsen is able to perfectly combine functionality and minimal form through the talent of his craftsmen. He has many experiences traveling to various countries (the United States, Japan, Spain...) and is often able to turn what he sees and hears during his travels into inspiration and motivation for creation.
In the design process, innovation, aesthetics, and functionality are three very important elements that Hans Sandgren Jakobsen attaches great importance to. Hans Sandgren Jakobsen, who was deeply influenced by the American Shakers (American Christian Shakers), also firmly believes that "Beauty depends on functionality". Constantly seeking innovative breakthroughs based on existing designs, using a simple and clean design aesthetic of less is more, to create a universality that can stand the test of the times.
Designer’s official website: www.hans-sandgren-jakobsen.com
8 Verner Panton
Denmark’s most influential designer Verner Panton, in Copenhagen He studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, but it was not his architectural works that later made him famous, but the daily necessities and furniture he designed.
Panton’s bright and straightforward color skills, adept at using geometric images, create many futuristic designs, and each work can inspire the user’s unlimited imagination. The foundation of this style was Panton's bold experimentation with color and structural materials. He did overcome many conceptual and technical limitations and became commonly used materials in today's home design industry (such as plastic, acrylic, fiberglass). , sponge rubber, etc.), and the creator of new visual and sensory experiences.
Verner Panton took the lead in completing the world's first one-piece plastic injection chair in 1959, the world-famous Panton Chair. It not only became a collection classic, but also established Verner Panton's status.
Designer’s official website: www.verner-panton.com
9 Trine Anderson
Trine grew up in a small town in Denmark called Jylland. Her family ran a In a garment factory, Trine, who has been very talented in design since she was a child, knows how to use the leftover fabrics in the factory to design and make clothes for her dolls. She founded Ferm-LIVING in 2005. Her works combine imagination and a unique style that breaks through tradition, and use the beautiful natural scenery of Northern Europe and the United States to outline smooth lines and realistic artistic conception in a fashionable and fresh perspective. Designer's official website: www.ferm-living.com
10 Poul Christiansen
Poul Christiansen, a Danish architect born in 1947, graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1973. From 1969 to 1987, Poul Christiansen brought innovative and exciting changes to the originally straight-line pleated lamps of Le Klint, a century-old lighting manufacturer.
Actively researching and breaking through technical difficulties, Poul Christiansen transformed the wrinkles through mathematical calculations to create a more beautiful architectural appearance. The curved waves and specially processed materials show the flow of lines and light.
Poul Christiansen and Russian designer Boris Berlin established the design company Komplot Design in 1987. Its services include furniture, industrial design, graphic design, etc. Komplot Design is favored by many well-known furniture factories, including Gubi, Norman Copenhagen, etc. The Gubi Chair designed for Gubi is a single-board chair made using innovative 3-D technology. It is collected and displayed at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
11 Monica F?rster
One of the representatives of Swedish contemporary furniture design, Monica F?rster has designed many internationally renowned furniture products. Born in a village in northern Sweden near the Polar Circle, her works are known for their pure forms and novel materials and technologies. He often creates in a cross-disciplinary and diversified way, constantly inventing and innovating the scope of industrial design.
Monica F?rster's studio is located in Stockholm and has cooperated with major international brands Cappellini, Poltrona Frau, De Padova, Bernhardt, Whirlpool, Vibia, Tacchini, Modus, Offecct, and Swedese. The opportunity to work with a major furniture manufacturer for a long time gives Monica F?rster sufficient resources and opportunities to work together with a top R&D team to realize unrestricted innovative designs. Monica F?rster's designs represent not just one individual, but the entire team behind them.
Monica F?rster, an internationally renowned designer, draws inspiration from nature and her curiosity for new materials and technologies. Nordic crafts, Asian cuisine, fashion, nature. These diverse fragments combine to create Monica F?rster's strong, functional and poetic design products.
Designer’s official website: www.monicaforster.se
12 Mattias St?hlbom
Mattias St?hlbom likes to start with simple ideas and use simple methods , materials to create objects that are obvious, but simple yet not simple.
Mattias St?hlbom, born in 1971, is a well-known Swedish architect and designer. Mattias St?hlbom studied architecture and furniture design at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, as well as ethnology and art at two local universities.
Designed furniture and kitchenware for well-known Swedish companies, and also worked in the design field in New York. In 2002, he started running the architecture and design office TAF in Stockholm with Gabriella Gustafson ***. Starting from the items that can be seen every day, through the magic of design, people can appreciate the ordinary and extraordinary things in life more.
Designer’s official website: www.tafarkitektkontor.se
13 Maija Isola
Maija Isola is a very outstanding contemporary female designer. Her works are influenced by the colors of multicultural images, with strong ethnic flavors and lively color layers. The pattern UNIKKO (which means poppy in Finnish) she designed for the Finnish brand Marimekko has become a representative of classic style, and its status is completely irreplaceable in the Nordic design world.
Maija Isola, born in Finland in 1927, studied drawing at the Central School of Industrial Arts in Helsinki. He was the first full-time designer hired by Printex (the predecessor of Marimekko) and became the chief designer of interior fabrics. Her most famous print, Unikko, remains a registered trademark of Marrimekko.
Maija Isola is a versatile artist who uses bold colors and has created more than 500 design drawings. Her experiences traveling to Yugoslavia, Italy, and Algeria have combined inspiration from different cultural styles in her designs. In the 1980s, she began to design bolder graphics and decorative designs with her daughter (Kristina), who continues to work as a designer at Marimekko today.
14 Klaus Rath
Klaus Rath graduated from the Industrial Design Department of Aarhus School of Architecture in 1990 and became an industrial designer. . From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a designer for Modulex A/S, part of the LEGO Group in Billund. In 1997 he founded Klaus Rath Design and has designed for Siemens, Motorola, Modulex and GN Netcom, among many other brands.
Klaus Rath's design emphasizes technical craftsmanship, and he perfectly combines technology and craftsmanship. He not only develops high-tech production methods, but also holds two technical patents for innovative design. At the same time, his design features clean and neat lines, simple and practical functions, and always maintains the tradition of Scandinavian design.
Designer’s official website: rathdesign.dk
15 John Brauer
Designer John Brauer was born in Denmark in 1960. His experience of traveling around the world has made him almost He has experienced various adventures and work experiences around the world, and has also visited and collected various cultural impressions. These rich life experiences and interests and exploration research across multiple fields have given him a multi-faceted view of different cultures. The in-depth understanding created his broad and open mind and rich source of design inspiration.
John Brauer’s design style is to deeply participate in the design process and pursue the development of new value for products. His design concept is to convey the deep meaning of objects and create new value for them. In 2007, he won the The Illusion magic towel table of the British Industry Awards uses innovative manufacturing methods to create a natural shape, which is a successful example.
16 Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen, Denmark’s most influential architect and industrial designer, can be said to be the number one figure in Danish “functionalism” and the biggest representative of Nordic minimalist design. . As can be seen from the well-known classic chairs designed by Arne Jacobsen, such as Egg Chair, Ant Chair, and Swan Chair, there are no unnecessary lines or structures at all. The simplest curves are used to achieve the best use function of the chair. The beautiful and elegant posture lasts for a long time. Strong.
Arne Jacobsen, who studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, won the "House of Future" competition for future housing design organized by the Danish Architectural Association after graduation. Since then, his fame and ultra-modern design style have quickly spread. Come. Jacobsen's designs undergo extremely precise calculations and require perfection down to the smallest detail. For example, when he helped design St. Catherine's College for Oxford University in England, he also specifically requested that he design all areas of the land, including landscape and accessories, in the contract. This college later became his masterpiece.
Designer’s official website: www.arne-jacobsen.com
17 Jakob Wagner
Jakob Wagner is a very prominent contemporary designer in Northern Europe and has designed many award-winning Countless works collected in museums. His works appear regularly in exhibitions in Northern Europe and around the world.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963, graduated from the Product Design Department of Art Center in Montreux, Switzerland in 1992. In the same year, he established his own studio and initially cooperated with sports and professional equipment companies, such as Porsche and Pioneer. Later the design began to transfer to household objects.
Jakob Wagner’s designs often use strong contrast to express the tension between different qualities, combining seemingly opposing concepts, such as movement and stillness, male and female, organic and geometric...etc. Through this tension, new life is injected into the product, challenging the senses while constantly tempting and attracting our feelings and emotions. The kinetic energy of Jakob Wagner's design also comes from these various forms full of meaning.
Designer’s official website: www.jakobwagner.dk
18 Hans J. Wegner
Hans J. Wegner was born in 1914 in Denmark to a shoemaker family. He completed his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the age of 17 and went to the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen at the age of 20.
The young architect Wegner and many design predecessors have had the opportunity to make a career.
In 1940, he joined Arne Jacobsen and Erik M?ller in the furniture design work of the ?rhus Town Hall. In the same year, Wegner collaborated with the master carpenter Johannes Hansen, developing his skills to a higher level.
Founded his own design studio in 1943, and started creating a series of Chinese chairs the following year. The idea of ??the Chinese chair was inspired by Ming-style chairs from photos taken by Danish businessmen. One of them, the "Wishbone Chair", is one of the best-selling and most popular Wegner chairs from 1949 to the present.
The Round Chair designed in 1949 appeared on the front page of the American Interior magazine and was hailed as the most beautiful chair in the world. Round Chairs have repeatedly appeared in various important international occasions, such as the 1960 presidential televised debate between US Vice Presidents Nixon and Kennedy and the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Hans J. Wegner, the perfect combination of carpenter and designer, faithfully presents the most beautiful forms with precise techniques.
19 Form Us With Love
FORM US WITH LOVE Use one word to describe yourself─dedication. This young Swedish design studio does not wait for good things to happen out of thin air, but takes the initiative to create and expand its own designs. The field of FORM US WITH LOVE design is very wide, and everything related to product design is the object of FUWL's concern.
Form Us With Love was founded in 2005 by John L?fgren, Jonas Pettersson and Petrus Palmér. The three met each other in product design classes at Kalmer University. Form Us With Love takes Innovation, Interaction and Love as its design philosophy.
For FUWL, the biggest gain from cooperating with major furniture brands (Axcent, Zero, Design House Stockholm, Materia, Mitab, Muuto, etc.) is not the result of the product, but the thinking and thinking in the entire process. Experience in creation, design and production. The experience of these collaborations continues to stimulate FUWL to use innovative entry points to inject some fun and humor into the minimalist style of the 21st century.
Designer’s official website: www.formuswithlove.se
20 Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen is the most prolific, subversive and controversial architecture of the 20th century. One of the teachers. Eero Saarinen grew up in a design family, his mother is textile artist Loja Saarinen, his father Eliel Saarinen is a famous architect and land planner, and his sister is also an interior designer.
Architectural designs that are famous at home and abroad have shaped the international image of the United States after World War II. Dulles International Airport, the St. Louis Memorial Arch, the General Motors Technology Center, and the TWA Terminal at Kennedy International Airport, these American values The powerful symbol of is the representative work of Eero Saarinen.
Throughout his creative career, he has produced furniture designs. Eero Saarinen’s rich, clever, and highly original furniture can be said to be the representative of American furniture design in the 1950s. In 1940, he and Charles Eames won first place in the MOMA organic furniture design competition (Organic Armchair), and later developed a long-term cooperative relationship with Knoll Associates.
The use of new materials, construction techniques and innovations in sculptural forms give each object designed by Eero Saarinen a strong architectural quality.
Designer’s official website: www.eerosaarinen.net
21 Eero Aarnio
Eero Aarnio was born in Finland in 1932 and studied at the Institute in Helsinki from 1954 to 1957. of Industrial Arts, and established his own studio in 1962 to engage in interior design and industrial design. Many of his works have achieved international recognition around the world and he has received many industrial design awards.
As a professor and interior designer, he began to challenge traditional furniture design norms in 1960, and instead experimented with plastics, diverse and colorful colors, and organic forms to create newer and more functional pieces. Stylish furniture.
The plastic works he designed have since become world-famous. The Ball chair he designed with fiberglass in 1963 and the Bubble in 1968 not only accurately reflected the Pop Culture at the time, ) has aroused widespread repercussions and is still an indicator in the design world. Fiberglass has become one of Eero Aarnio's favorite materials.
Eero Aarnio’s works combine culture, fashion, aesthetics and functionality. He has won numerous international awards, and his works are collected and exhibited in major iconic museums around the world such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, MoMA in New York, and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
Designer’s official website: www.eeroaarnio.com
22 Bj?rn Dahlstr?m
Bj?rn Dahlstr?m is a very famous Swedish designer Born in the 1950s, he was engaged in graphic and animation design in the 1970s. In 1982, he established his own design company. In the early days, he focused on graphic design projects for several large companies such as Ericsson, Scania, Atlas Copco...
Slowly, Bj?rn began to extend his design talents to product design, with many categories, such as: Playsam children's toys, Skeppshult bicycles, Krups coffee machines, Marimekko fabric design, Magis, Plank and furniture by David design. His style is understated and simple, with a unique elegance that cannot be replaced.
Designer’s official website: www.dahlstromdesign.se
23 Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto can be said to be an important figure in launching modern Nordic design, covering architecture and furniture. , fabrics, glass art, etc. Born in Kuortane, a small town in Finland, the place where I grew up is surrounded by the most beautiful natural beauty and dreamy lakes. Alvar Aalto showed artistic talent since he was a child and was particularly good at painting and art. At the age of fourteen, he began to draw illustrations for local publications. Although he became an architect when he grew up, Alvar Aalto was very interested in movies when he was a child, and even built a small theater on the top floor of his house.
Alvar Aalto was unique in creating dramatic spaces. Therefore, in the early 20th century when the economy took off and standardization and mass production were popular around the world, he was able to skillfully integrate architecture with sensibility and standardization. , allowing the building to show its natural organicity. Alvar Aalto's design style has gone from early classical, functional, and organic to later experimental and monumental works. It can be seen that he is constantly creating classics. He caught the attention of Le Corbusier in his early days, and the architect Frank Lloyd Wright called him genius.
As a talented and all-round designer, Alvar Aalto not only designs buildings, but also includes interior design. His works can be seen in details such as furniture, lamps, and accessories. The Paimio armchair is a globally renowned classic that combines bentwood technology with perfect curvature. Artek was founded in 1935 by Alvar Aalto to produce his designer furniture.
Passed away in 1976, Alvar Aalto left a rich architectural vocabulary to future generations. He successfully combined Finnish tradition with modern craftsmanship to create moving buildings that are not only functional but also express a lot of humanism. .
Designer’s official website: www.alvaraalto.fi
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