Liv Mildrid Gjernes (born 2 June 1954 in
Lunde
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, in
Telemark
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,
Norway
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) is a Norwegian
artist
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and has given name to the contemporary style of decoration,
sculpture
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, and
furniture
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design known as
Gjernes style. She lives and has her atelier in
Eidsfoss Eidsfoss is a village in Hof municipality, Vestfold county, Norway. It is located near Lake Eikeren.
The village was the site of the Eidsfos Iron Works (''Eidsfos Jernverk'') which dated to 1697. The iron works was closed in 1873. The village is ...
, in
Vestfold
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in Norway. She studied in
Bergen
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high-school of art and design and at the Institute for Furniture and Room.
Apart from being chosen for vast number of sculptural decoration assignments for private and public institutions, she was commissioned by the Norwegian government to produce its wedding gift to
Princess Märtha Louise
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and
Ari Behn
Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist.
Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ...
on 24 May 2002. The gift consisted of two cupboards specially designed for the wedding-couple with the title "Ikons for the Hearts". In each cupboard there were seven exclusive pieces of handicraft from different regions of Norway, produced by other outstanding Norwegian artists.
References
''"Ikons for the Hearts"'' presentation by the Norwegian government
External links
The artists Norwegian homepage
1954 births
Living people
People from Nome, Norway
Norwegian artists
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