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Born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1943. Heikki Orvola is one of the driving forces within Finnish design. He works in glass, ceramics, cast iron and textiles for iittala, Arabia and Marimekko. Orvola has worked for the industrial art business, but he has also worked in a variety of different materials as a form of pure, artistic expression. During his career as a designer, Heikki Orvola has received awards and prizes, including the Kaj Franck prize in 1998 – perhaps Finland’s most important design prize. For iittala he designd Kivi and Aika.
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Christian Bjørn has been a key figure on the Danish design scene since the end of the 1970s, and is today credited with much of the honour for having established Industrial Design as an independent profession in Denmark.
For Menu, Christian has created a series which, from its launch, wowed people worldwide. After a few months on the market, Christian’s Lighthouse series for Menu has already been awarded two of the most well-known design prizes in the world: the Red Dot Award and the IF Industrial Design Award.
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