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Olav Eldøy
Olav Eldøy (born 1 November 1948) is a Norwegian furniture designer. Eldøy was born in 1948 on Stord, Norway. He was educated the National College of Art & Design in Bergen 1973. Some of his award winning products are: the chair Peel, the chair Date & the chair Eight produced by the Norwegian furniture manufacture Variér. Awards *2008- The Norwegian Design Council Norwegian Design Council ( no, Norsk Designråd) was a Norwegian state-controlled foundation that encouraged good design of Norwegian products as a key to improved innovation and the products international reputation and sales. Among the activiti ...'s mark of Good Design for the chair "EIGHT" *2004- Furniture of the year in Norway – Sofa Vatne 116 – Elle Decoration International Design Awards *2003- Best Design product, Salon deu Meuble, Paris for the chairs "Peel" *2003- The Norwegian Design Council's mark of Good Design for the chair "Date", nominated for the Award of Honour. *2002- The Norwegian Design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furniture Designer
This is a list of notable people whose primary occupation is furniture design. A * Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) * Eero Aarnio (born 1932) * Robert Adam (1728-1792) * Thomas Affleck (1745-1795) * Franco Albini (1905-1977) * Davis Allen (1916-1999) * Ron Arad (born 1951) * Ini Archibong (born 1983) * David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (born 1961) * Gae Aulenti (1927-2012) * Jean Avisse (1723-1796) B * Fred Baier (born 1949) * Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby (born 1969) * Milo Baughman (1923-2003) * Mario Bellini (born 1935) * Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) * Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) * Cini Boeri (1924-2020) * André Charles Boulle (1642-1732) * Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976) * Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) * Jeremy Broun (born 2000) * Busk + Hertzog C * Louise Campbell (born 1970) * Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) * Wendell Castle (1932-2018) * Don Chadwick (born 1936) * William Chambers (1723-1796) * Eliphalet Chapin (1741-1807) * Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stord, Norway
Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leirvik, which is also the largest town in the municipality and the whole region of Sunnhordland. Leirvik was declared a town in 1997. Other population centres in the municipality include the large village of Sagvåg and the smaller villages of Litlabø and Grov. The municipality is the 316th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Stord is the 69th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 18,919. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 5.4% over the previous 10-year period. General information The parish of ''Stordøen'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Design Council
Norwegian Design Council ( no, Norsk Designråd) was a Norwegian state-controlled foundation that encouraged good design of Norwegian products as a key to improved innovation and the products international reputation and sales. Among the activities of the Norwegian Design Council were awarding the ''Merket for God Design'' and ''Design Effekt'' awards. It also cooperated closely with Innovation Norway concerning new ventures. The council worked as a competence centre and was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, through consulting and through other projects. The Norwegian Design Council was founded in 1963 by the Norwegian Export Council and the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. In 2014, the Norwegian Design and Architecture Centre (''Norsk design- og arkitektursenter'') was established as a fusion of the Norwegian Design Council with the Norwegian Form (''Norsk Form''), a national institution working in the fields of design, architecture, and urban dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Furniture Designers
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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