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Bjørn Wiinblad
Bjørn Wiinblad
Many years ago my grandfather used to work for Rosenthal Ceramics (now CeramTec). Each Christmas the staff would receive a Christmas plate designed by the Danish artist Bjørn Wiinblad and a diary full of pictures of the latest Rosenthal plates, coffee sets etc. This was my introduction to Scandanavian design. I still have all the diaries and my family still have the plates, dinner sets and coffee sets.
Bjørn Wiinblad (1918-2006) was a painter and designer who worked with ceramics, silver bronze and textiles. In 1947 he was attached to the US Embassy in Paris where he worked as a poster designer. His posters would later be shown in Copenhagen, Seoul and Miami.
However, Wiinblad is probably best known for his ceramic work for Rosenthal Ceramics for which he designed the Romance dinnerware and, from 1971, the Christmas plates. Wiinblad also designed ceramic pieces for the Danish pottery studio Nymolle.
Turid Gramstad Oliver
'Turid “Turi” Oliver was born in Sandbes Norway in January 1938. She studied at The Norwegian College of Applied Arts in Oslo from 1955 to 1958. Whilst studying she worked in the workshop of Kari Nyquist. She began her work at Figgjo in 1960 and during the next twenty years of her time there she created several iconic ceramic ranges including, the delightful Figgjo Lotte series, the Figgjo Market range, Tor Viking and many other figurative and floral designs. She left Figgjo in 1980 and continued her artistic pursuits, changing mediums to working with paper and fabric.'
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