Norway

Gunnar Berg (1863–1893) is a Norwegian artist from the Lofoten Islands, a representative of Düsseldorf school of painting. A native of the city of Svolvær, he studied in Bergen, then at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Later he lived and worked in Düsseldorf and Berlin. But almost every year Berg ...

Ask a man what "hygge" is. Most likely, he will shrug and say that this is some kind of Danish beer. Ask a woman and she will readily answer that it is knitted socks in Scandinavian style. Well, they are both right and wrong simultaneously. The concept of "hygge" includes fresh ...

The artist-jeweler from Norway Liv Bewarp has been making organic and volume designs for almost 30 years. Her jewelry with dynamic wooden forms has earned international acclaim, which grows steadily every year. Liv explains her success with the development of fashion of sculptural forms. But I ...

Solveig Hisdal was born in 1946 in Norway. She is known primarily for her knitwear projects for Oleana, a well-known brand of clothing and textiles. She was hired in 1992, after the founders of the company saw her exhibition in Oslo — Wedding Jackets from a City Girl. Her own brand is over 20 years, ...

The concept of Scandinavian design emerged in the 1950s when Norwegian designers and their Scandinavian colleagues traveled around the world presenting their creative products, minimalistic and functional. Today the Norwegian designers has won international recognition. They work in different ways ...

For me, raglan or round yoke knitted sweaters are something incredible. And if jacquard is added... it's a kind of magic! I once knitted a Raglan sweater + jacquard for mom, and never tried it again. But I am so impressed when looking at such photos! I just think that these sweaters are ...

I wanted once to make a vase in the shape of a deer head so that the deer had twigs instead of horns. The vase shape is quite difficult, especially when sculpting it by hand. I decided to try a pottery wheel. The muzzle itself is shaped like a pear. Pear — if you remove the upper rounding — reminds ...