Louise Campbell (designer)
Danish furniture designer
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Louise Campbell (born 1970) is a Danish furniture and lighting designer. She is a leading figure in contemporary Danish design and experiments with free, unconstrained forms and new technologies. She was born to a Danish father and an English mother.
Louise Campbell | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Education | London College of Furniture (1992), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1995)[1] |
| Occupation | Designer |
| Website | louisecampbell |
Career
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Campbell's interest in design is focused on furniture and lighting, but she is also involved in product and interior design projects. Some of the companies she has worked with include: Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop, and the Danish Ministry of Culture.[citation needed]
She is best known for the Prince Chair that she designed as her entry for a 2002 competition hosted by the Association of Danish Furniture Industries.[2] The competition invited designers to create a chair for Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark. Although Campbell did not win the competition, the chair won several awards and HAY picked it up to manufacture. It is now a part of the Museum of Modern Art's collection.[3] The chair itself resembles an "unfolded paper cutout" and was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's archival museum paper cutouts.[4][5]
She is also known for the Collage pendant lamp designed for Louis Poulsen, the "More the Merrier" candlestick created for Muuto,[6][independent source needed] and the "Campbell Pendant" (2005) for Louis Poulsen, which won the iF Product Design Award in gold.[7]
Awards
- 2004 Finn Juhl Prize
- 2005 iF Product Design Award in gold for Campbell Pendlen .[8]
- 2007 Bruno Mathsson Award (Sweden)[9]
- 2009 Prince Eugen Medal
Books
- Louise Campbell, Mads Nygaard Folkmann, Aschehoug, Denmark Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-11-23253-8