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Architecture& Design Norway<br />
Designers and their products<br />
Lars Beller Fjetland<br />
The designer with a<br />
bachelors’ degree from<br />
Bergen National Academy of<br />
the Arts grew up on the west<br />
coast of Norway, where he<br />
nurtured a fascination with<br />
nature, and the marriage of<br />
function with the finest of<br />
nature’s materials in furniture,<br />
interiors and lighting.<br />
Equal chair sees industrial<br />
strength meeting nature’s<br />
own untameable force in this<br />
honest design of industrial<br />
and traditional craftsmanship.<br />
A single screw seals it all<br />
off – the ever expanding and<br />
retracting wood in the tight<br />
grip of a single, seamless<br />
piece of cast metal.<br />
Tverrfjellhytta,<br />
The Norwegian Wild<br />
Reindeer Centre<br />
Pavilion<br />
Snøhetta — This worldrenown<br />
architectural and<br />
design firm with Norwegian<br />
roots created the Pavilion as<br />
a lookout for wild reindeer on<br />
a site that perches over the<br />
Dovrefjell mountains, which<br />
are mythical and sacred in<br />
locals’ hearts. Within the<br />
rectangular shell of steel<br />
and glass, which mirrors<br />
the beautiful scenery, lies an<br />
organic wooden core shaped<br />
like rock or ice that has been<br />
eroded by the forces of wind<br />
and water. This contrast in<br />
design perspective of strength<br />
and vulnerable softness<br />
reflects Norwegian nature and<br />
the surrounding landscape at<br />
its best – it’s a story of both<br />
harshness and tenderness, a<br />
theme in Norway’s favourite<br />
myths and tales.<br />
Kristine Five Melvær<br />
Holding two masters degrees in Industrial Design and in Visual<br />
Communication, the Oslo-based designer bridges product<br />
design and graphic design to focus on objects’ emotional<br />
bonds with their users. She translates these qualities into<br />
sensuous objects with Scandinavian simplicity. Her Spring<br />
lamps stretch towards the ceiling like living flowers. The size<br />
of the lamps, with the tallest measuring two metres, gives the<br />
impression of a glowing forest.<br />
Nils Henrik Stensrud<br />
An architect, product designer and assistant<br />
professor at the Norwegian University<br />
of Science and Technology, Nils Henrik<br />
Stensrud has designed Turntable, a limitededition<br />
series of side tables crafted from<br />
recycled aluminium that presents a different<br />
profile at every angle. Its shape alludes to<br />
the steel-tube furniture of the Bauhaus era,<br />
produced in large scale in 1930s Norway.<br />
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