Louise Campbell (born 1970 in

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) is a Danish furniture and lighting

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. She is a leading figure in contemporary Danish design and experiments with free, unconstrained forms and new technologies. She has won several awards and her products are produced by many renowned producers like

Louis Poulsen Louis Poulsen is a Danish lighting manufacturer that was founded in 1874. Louis Poulsen Lighting is represented by subsidiaries, distribution offices and agents around the world. Their key sales regions are Scandinavia, Europe, Japan and United S ...

, Zanotta,

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Muuto Muuto is a Scandinavian design company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The product range includes furniture and other design products. History Muuto was founded by Kristian Byrge and Peter Bonnen in 2006. Byrge had previously been involved in the ...

and

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. She was born to Danish father and English mother.

Career

Meubles de Louise Campbell (Maison du Danemark) (3600353997)

Campbell’s interest in design is focused on furniture and lighting, but she is also involved in product and

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projects. Some of the companies she has worked with include:

, Zanotta, HAY,

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, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop, and the

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. She is best known for the Prince Chair that she designed as her entry for a 2002 competition hosted by the Association of Danish Furniture Industries. The competition invited designers to create a chair for

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. Although Campbell did not win the competition, the chair won several awards and HAY picked it up to manufacture. It is now a part of the

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's collection. The chair itself resembles an "unfolded paper cutout" and was inspired by

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's archival museum paper cutouts. She is also known for the Collage pendant lamp designed for Louis Poulsen, the "More the Merrier" candlestick created for Muuto, and the "Campbell Pendant" (2005) for Louis Poulsen, which won the IF Product Design Award in gold.

Awards

* 2004 Finn Juhl Prize * 2005 IF product design award in gold for ''Campbell Pendlen'' . * 2007 Bruno Mathsson Award (Sweden) * 2009

Prince Eugen Medal The Prince Eugen Medal ( sv, Prins Eugen-medaljen) is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement". The medal was established in 1945 by the then King of Sweden, Gustaf V, in connection with the eightieth birthd ...

Books

* ''Louise Campbell'', Mads Nygaard Folkmann, Aschehoug, Denmark Copenhagen 2007,

References

Danish furniture designers Danish women designers Designers from Copenhagen Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Danish people of English descent 1970 births Living people {{Denmark-bio-stub