| Bjorn Wiinblad is gifted with a sparkling fantasy putting | | | | newspaper pages and became an artist. To become |
| him in the position to create exuberant masterpieces | | | | a designer was a natural choice for Bjorn Wiinblad |
| of ceramics, which during the years have enthused | | | | who already as a child was renowned for his creative |
| people across the globe. There is no doubt about his | | | | mind. Before Christmas he was always busy drawing, |
| significant position within the decorative art and | | | | painting, cutting and pasting astonishing gifts for friends |
| craftwork. His design is strongly personal and often | | | | and family. |
| has a touch of Oriental inspiration. In 1998, when Bjorn | | | | Apparently, his calling is to create designs that makes |
| Wiinblad celebrated his 80 birthday, the exhibition place | | | | the world a little bit more beautiful, a little more inspiring, |
| Sophienholm in Lyngby north of the Danish capital | | | | a little more funny and often much more colourful. In |
| Copenhagen dedicated a special exhibition to his | | | | doing so, he works in many different areas, for |
| works through time. For the exhibition a catalogue with | | | | example with ceramics, porcelain, glass, posters, |
| text written by Bjorn Wiinblad himself was published. | | | | decoration for the theatres as well as textiles. In his |
| A peculiar tradition in Wiinblad's family was that the | | | | own words, working with many different kinds of art is |
| youngsters usually got an education as typesetter, only | | | | "a permanent search for the uncertain to be a |
| to find out which line of business they would actually | | | | beginner so that I must exert myself to meet the |
| choose later in life. 17 years old Wiinblad followed this | | | | requirements of the different tasks". This shall be seen |
| tradition and became a typesetters apprentice in 1935. | | | | contrary to the artists seeking perfection in one |
| Luckily he left this path as a technical composer of | | | | specific area. |