Designer
Jarle Slyngstad
MNIL, KHiO 1985
Designs: Aldo chair, Echo Recliner, Echo Lounge chair
Jarle Slyngstad has designed furniture and other industrial products for over 40 years. Throughout his career, he has focused on creating products with high aesthetic value without compromising on ergonomics and functionality. He has collaborated with many of the largest Norwegian furniture companies, but has also designed products for international firms. Jarle focuses on the environment and believes that the best form of environmental protection is to create products with a long lifespan.
His work as a designer stems from a strong urge to create. This urge leads him into new landscapes with new challenges. These challenges are the trigger mechanism that releases the energy to solve the tasks. Good design is a good and simple answer to complex questions. The aesthetics of the design emerge from the simplicity of the solution. This is also what characterizes Scandinavian Design. In our time, with such a strong focus on the environment, it is food for thought that we are creating more and more products. Jarle Slyngstad's approach will always be to create products that you grow fond of and that are meant to last a long time. I believe that is the best form of environmental protection.
Designer
Helge Taraldsen
MNIL, SHKS 1977
Designs: Bo , Crew , Duun , Ergo , Gent , Cube , Duun , Pan , Sid , Svan , Twin , Xenia
Designer
Fredrik Torsteinsen
MNIL, SHKS 1992
Design: Nordia, Modus
Fredrik Torsteinsen is part of the Torsteinsen Design trio. Torsteinsen Design has more than 60 years of design experience in furniture design, product design, and textile design. The team consists of the married couple Fredrik and Solveig Torsteinsen and Vidar Øverby. Inspired by the functional yet organic forms of the Scandinavian design tradition, they strive to create beautiful and functional products. Torsteinsen Design has received numerous awards, including 8 Awards for Design Excellence from the Norwegian Design Council.
Designer
Tone Naero
MNIL
Design: Tiara
Tone is part of the duo at Nærø Interiørarkitekter and is responsible for the design of the Tiara series. Nærø focuses on sustainable solutions with a keen sense of aesthetics and has expertise in cultural buildings, restaurants, education, and industry.
Designer
Nina Jobs and Stina Sandwall
Design: Svea, Ark
About Nina Jobs
Nina Jobs started her design business in 2000. Over time, she has created a company that has become a platform for a wide range of work covering product design, art direction, and visual presentation.
About Stina Sandwall
Stina Sandwall grew up in a village outside Värnamo in Småland, but now lives in Stockholm. She is a graduate of Beckmans College of Design. Stina has received attention for her products in both Swedish and international press and has been awarded prizes for her design.
Designer
Hans Brattrud
Hans Bratterud was educated at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Art (1952-1957). He decided to become a designer at the age of 12. After graduating, he ran an architectural office alone and with partners. His school assignment was the Scandia chair – now produced by Fjordfiesta. In 1958, he made the Comet chair for us. Upon request, the Comet was put into production again in 2014.
Design: Comet
Designer
Torsteinsen Design
Torsteinsen Design trio has more than 60 years of design experience in furniture design, product and textile design. The team consists of husband and wife Fredrik and Solveig Torsteinsen and Vidar Øverby. Inspired by the functional yet organic forms of the Scandinavian design tradition, they strive to create beautiful and functional products. Torsteinsen Design has received numerous awards, including 8 awards for outstanding design from the Norwegian Design Council.
Vidar Øverby, MNIL, KHIO
Solveig Torsteinsen, MNIL, SHKS
Fredrik Torsteinsen, MNIL, SHKS 1992
Design: Modus , Nordia
Designer
Tom Stepp
Design: Timeout, Bobo
Tom Stepp is an architect educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has won several awards. Tom has worked with a number of Danish and international companies and is known for exclusive design and high quality. His product range spans from furniture for the contract market, private apartments, and retail concepts, to lighting, installations, and art.
designer
Sigurd Resell
Design: Addi
Sigurd Resell was one of the country's most distinctive designers in the 1950s and 1960s. Resell trained as a carpenter and later studied at the Wood Department of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry between 1943 and 1947. After his studies, he worked at the Rastad og Relling design office and created some of the most distinctive furniture of the postwar era. He also designed several commercial pieces, such as the Blinken dining chair (1956) and chairs in the Bambi series (1955). In 1960, Resell designed the Addi chair for Helland Lenestolfabrikk. In 1970, Resell designed the Blankvals chair, later known as the Falcon.