Finally I have completed the rosepainting chair I started on last year.
I wanted to play with old norwegian craftmanship and computer generated design. We see alot of organic shapes formed in CAD software and milled out on CNC machines. My chair is a critique to this designprocess who often are designed by a CAD software with the designer functioning as a copilot.
As a designer, I’m inspired by the personal freedom and the emotional aspect in traditional craftsmanship. Great design materializes emotion, evoking a connection between people and products.
With this chair I’m hoping to set focus on, and pay some respect to traditional craftsmanship.
Kategorier: Furniture · MA project 2008-2010
Tagget: christoffer, Design, rosemaling, rosepainting
Inspired by my friends in NY and their American Design Club, I have together with two classmates formed Oslo Designerlaug (Oslo Designer Guild). Great concept who can help young and emerging designers in Norway sell their products.
ODL (ODG) will host the first exhibition this Christmas somewhere in Oslo!
Info from www.odl.no:
ODG
Oslo Designer Guild seeks to bring Norwegian designers together. Norwegian designers have lately been good at promoting themselves outside Norway, but there are few good platforms for Norwegian designers to showcase their work locally. ODG wants to raise awareness around the newly established and emerging Norwegian designers, promote a sense of community, and create exhibition and sales opportunities.
Kategorier: Exhibition
Tagget: amdc, american design club, angell, christoffer, Design, Designerlaug, guild, oslo
The book has been launched, and the book presents three of my chairs: “Beehive”, “Lola” and “Pauline”.
Heres some pictures:
Lola
Beehive
Pauline
Kategorier: Furniture · Media
Tagget: angell, beehive, chair, christoffer, Design, gestalten, lola, Once upon a chair, Pauline
Here is a better picture of my new prototype named “Gul stol” (yellow chair).
Kategorier: Exhibition · Furniture
Tagget: angell, christoffer, designers, Gul, oslo, saturday, solid wood, stol
The new book “Once Upon a Chair” from Gestalten who will feature my work, is soon to be published.
Here is the cover from the book who will be launched this september. Can’t wait to see it.
Kategorier: Design · Media
Tagget: angell, christoffer, gestalten, Once upon a chair
Just finished a chair for a competition this september during The Designers Saturday in Oslo.
The chair is named “Gul stol”. The chair is elegant and feminin, specially with it’s characteristic legs, who lookes like wearing high heels. With this chair I wanted to reach out to the users curiosity and feelings.
The chair is made out of solid beech, and spraypainted yellow.
I’m very pleased with the result, and time will show if I’m one of the top three.
Here is some pictures taken with a cell phone, will update with better pictures later…
Kategorier: Design · Exhibition · Furniture
Tagget: angell, christoffer, designers saturday, oslo, stiletto
Hovefestivalen wants my loungechair Pauline to be in one of their interview locations during the music festival this summer! So I’m letting them borrow my two prototypes for the week (the red one, and the striped one), and hopefully there will be some media coverage.
Besides of being one of the best (in my opinion) in Scandinavia, Hove is a festival with a strong environmental profile.
They encourage us to travel eco- friendly, eat eco- friendly and as they say on their site: “- F**k eco-friendly! Avoid unwanted pregnancy and overpopulation, use a condom. And recycle it.”
Her is the line- up for this summer!
Kategorier: Exhibition · Furniture · Media
Great article about me and Pauline in NOITHAT- Interior design magazine in Vietnam.
Anyone who can translate? 
Kategorier: Media
Tagget: angell, christoffer, Design, Furniture, Noithat, Pauline, vietnam
