Eystein Sandnes (7 November 1927 – 14 November 2006) was a Norwegian ceramic and glass designer who is known particularly for work done at the ceramic industries

Stavangerflint AS Stavangerflint AS was an earthenware factory that was in operation from 1949 until 1979 in Stavanger, Norway. Company history Production of pottery tableware for households and for the professional market started in 1949 under the name of ''Sta ...

Biography

Sandes was born in the municipality of

Røros Røros ( sma, Plaassja, ) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Røros. Some of the villages in Røros include Brekken, Glåmos, Feragen, Galåa, and Hitterdalen. The minin ...

in the county of

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, Norway, and died in

Porsgrunn is a city and municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn. The municipality of Porsgrunn was ...

in the county of

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, Norway. He was educated both as a ceramist and as a glass designer with

Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry The National College of Art and Design ( no, Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole) was established in 1818. In 1996 the National College of Art and Design became part of Oslo National Academy of the Arts The Oslo National Academy of the A ...

in Oslo (1945–1949). From 1951 he was a glass designer at AS Norsk Glassverk,

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, where he gained recognition for his artistic talent. He received the government's scholarship for applied arts in 1954/1955. From 1955 to 1957 he held the position of design director at the

earthenware Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below . Basic earthenware, often called terracotta, absorbs liquids such as water. However, earthenware can be made impervious to liquids by coating it with a ce ...

company

, Stavanger, Norway. In 1958, Sandnes moved to AS Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik, Porsgrunn, Norway, where he became head of the Design Department in 1959. He held this position until retirement 1990.

Artist and artistic manager

He developed new designs for production, creating his most well-known models as ''Utstein'' and ''Ledaal'' there. They were produced for several years with different basic single tone colours which allowed for many combinations, but also with designs by various other artists at the company.

Inger Waage Inger Waage, (5 February 1923 – 16 December 1995), was an industrial ceramist at the Norwegian producer of earthenware, Stavangerflint AS. Biography She was born in Stavanger on the West coast of Norway. In 1943 she was accepted as a student ...

Anne Lofthus Anne Lofthus Valla (29 February 1932 – 6 October 2003) was a Norwegian ceramic artist and art teacher. Her artistic style was influenced by the folk-culture of rural Norway, in particular the cultural traditions from Telemark, where she was b ...

and

Kari Nyquist Kari Nyquist (October 17, 1918 – April 20, 2011) was a Norwegian ceramist. She is most associated with her decorated ceramics from the Stavangerflint AS plant in Stavanger, Norway. Her designs are most often found pottery of blue clay or stonewa ...

made many of their most recognised designs for models created by Eystein Sandnes. A tea set modelled by Eystein Sandnes and with a design by Kari Nyquist was obtained by the

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, London. It was Sandnes who introduced the principles of

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at Stavangerflint AS. At Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik, Sandnes designed the tea and dinner service ''Jubileum'' and the oven-proof ''Askeladden'', which received the design award of the Norwegian Design Council in 1965, the breakfast and dinner service ''Epoke'', which received the same award in 1969, and the tea coffee and dinner service ''Eystein 2440/80045'', which was awarded in 1971.

Awards and recognition

He received awards for Good Design by 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 ...

in 1965, 1969 and in 1971. In 1960 he was awarded a silver medal at the 12th Triennale for Design in Milan. Sandnes has been represented at several exhibitions in Norway and abroad and his works are included in many collections, among them the

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, Oslo, and the

, London. His tableware was among the examples of Scandinavian design shown at the 1982 exhibition "Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1980" at the

Cooper-Hewitt Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum housed within the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile. It is one of 19 museums that fall under the wing of the Smithsonian Inst ...

in New York City. Von Eckardt, Wolf (20 September 1982)
"Century of Scattered Flowers"
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Notes

References

* Website of the

(Norsk Designråd) * Andersen, Simeon & Olsen, Astrid: ''Moderne antikviteter, 2, Norsk glass, kunstnere og signaturer 1900-1970'', Oslo: Lunde, 2002 , * Gjerde, Jan: ''Fra Kvaleberg til cyberspace'', , http://gratisnettside.no/stavangerflinthistorie/ , media coverage from 1954. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandnes, Eystein 1927 births 2006 deaths Norwegian artists