Cecilie Manz
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Cecilie Manz is a Danish
industrial designer. She is considered one of the leading Danish furniture deisgners of her generation.
Her work of includes furniture, jewellery, lamps and sculptures. Her Mikado table has been included in MOMA
's design collection.
region on the island of Zealand in 1972. She was admitted to the Danish Design School
in Copenhagen
and went to Helsinki
as an exchange student, studying at the Finnish School of Art and Design, before she graduated in 1997. She then worked briefly in Professor Yrjö Wiherheimo's studio in Helsinki before returning to Copenhagen where she founded her own Manz Lab in 1998.
, Nils Holger Moormann, Fritz Hansen
, Muuto and Mooment.
Some of her most known designs include the Caravaggio lamp for Lightyears and the Mikado table.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
industrial designer. She is considered one of the leading Danish furniture deisgners of her generation.
Her work of includes furniture, jewellery, lamps and sculptures. Her Mikado table has been included in MOMA
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
's design collection.
Biography
Cecilie Manz was born Denmark's OdsherredOdsherred
Odsherred is a peninsula in the north-western part of the island Zealand in Denmark. Odsherred is stretching from the Sjællands Odde in the north-west to the now drained fjord Lammefjord in the south, covering an area with a wide range of the most typical Danish landscapes such as long sandy...
region on the island of Zealand in 1972. She was admitted to the Danish Design School
Danmarks Designskole
The Danish Design School is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering a five-year design education consisting of a three-year bachelor programme and a two-year master in design as well as conducting research within the fields of arts, crafts and design...
in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
and went to Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
as an exchange student, studying at the Finnish School of Art and Design, before she graduated in 1997. She then worked briefly in Professor Yrjö Wiherheimo's studio in Helsinki before returning to Copenhagen where she founded her own Manz Lab in 1998.
Designs
Manz has designed for brands such as LightYears, HolmegaardHolmegaard
Until January 1, 2007, Holmegaard was a municipality in Storstrøm County in the southern part of the island of Zealand in south Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 66 km², and had a total population of 7,442 . Its last mayor was Søren Dysted, a member of the Social Democrats ...
, Nils Holger Moormann, Fritz Hansen
Fritz Hansen
Fritz Hansen, also known as Republic of Fritz Hansen is a Danish furniture design company. Designers who have worked for Fritz Hansen include: Arne Jacobsen , Poul Kjærholm , Hans J. Wegner , and Piet Hein...
, Muuto and Mooment.
Some of her most known designs include the Caravaggio lamp for Lightyears and the Mikado table.
Awards and recognition
- * 2004: 3-years work grant, Danish Arts Foundation
- 2004: Danish Design Award
- Forum +1 Award
- 2007 iF product design awardIF product design awardThe iF Product Design Award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by the iF International Forum Design. Every year the iF attracts more than 2,000 product entries from around 37 nations, which are judged by renowned experts, with the best of them receiving an iF seal of outstanding...
- 2007 Finn Juhl PrizeFinn Juhl PrizeThe Finn Juhl Prize is a design prize awarded annually by the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation to a recipient who has made a special effort in the field of furniture design–with special reference to chairs—such as an architecht, manufacturer, writer. Founded in 2003, its name commemorates the...
- 2008 Danish Design Award
Group exhibitions
- Walk the Plank I + II, Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen (1999 and 2003)
- Living in Motion, Vitra Design MuseumVitra Design MuseumThe Vitra Design Museum is an internationally renowned, privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany.Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation...
, Basel (2002 - Northern Lights, MDS-G Miyake Design Studio Gallery, Tokyo (2004
- Grand Danois, Zona Tortona., Milan Furniture FairTriennaleLa Triennale di Milano is a design museum and events venue in Milan, Italy, located inside the Palace of Art building, part of Parco Sempione, the park grounds adjacent to Castello Sforzesco. It hosts exhibitions and events which highlight contemporary Italian design, urban planning, architecture,...
, Milan (2008) - Mindcraft, 100 Design, London (2008)
- Shh…Craft is Golden!, Zona Tortona., Milan Furniture FairTriennaleLa Triennale di Milano is a design museum and events venue in Milan, Italy, located inside the Palace of Art building, part of Parco Sempione, the park grounds adjacent to Castello Sforzesco. It hosts exhibitions and events which highlight contemporary Italian design, urban planning, architecture,...
, Milan (2009)