Norwegian furniture

Sold: Original 1970's Westnofa Norwegian Bentwood Chair | #139741

We finally made a trip to the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, IA. Wow! What a treat for woodworkers. I've long known about the museum, and even dropped in on an acanthus carving class some 20 years ago, but have not returned since. The museum is the dedicated to the Norwegian immigrant experience, and as one of the museum staff told us, Norwegian culture is about wood, wood, and wood. The range of woodwork was impressive, from simple carved spoons and ale bowls, all the way to elaborately…

Norwegian Chair (Spinnarstol)

Rosemåling, with its distinctive stylized depictions of flowers, scroll forms, lining, and geometric elements, is Norway's best known decorative folk art form. Its origins lie in eastern Norway during the Eighteenth Century, as changes in the style of housing occupied by rural inhabitants, and the influence of Baroque and Rococo art forms began to filter…

Matter, the Norwegian Presence exhibition at the 2022 Milan design week, explored inventive ways of using materials with designs including an offcut chair

Norwegian Icons - Important Norwegian Design - Oslo Tokyo New York

Organized by design collective Fold Oslo and featuring work by six emerging Norway-based designers, "The Ny Normal" isn’t so much a literal reaction to the pandemic, but rather a nudge towards a more thoughtful, local, and sustainable approach to how we can make and use things going forward.

Bed with rosemaling in the Telemark style. Norw.-Am. Painter: Karen Jenson, Milan, MN. Builder: Larry Schiller. Dated 1982. Painted wood