Bjorn Wiinblad Candleholder

Bjorn Wiinblad is gifted with a sparkling fantasy puttingnewspaper pages and became an artist. To become
him in the position to create exuberant masterpiecesa designer was a natural choice for Bjorn Wiinblad
of ceramics, which during the years have enthusedwho already as a child was renowned for his creative
people across the globe. There is no doubt about hismind. Before Christmas he was always busy drawing,
significant position within the decorative art andpainting, cutting and pasting astonishing gifts for friends
craftwork. His design is strongly personal and oftenand family.
has a touch of Oriental inspiration. In 1998, when BjornApparently, his calling is to create designs that makes
Wiinblad celebrated his 80 birthday, the exhibition placethe world a little bit more beautiful, a little more inspiring,
Sophienholm in Lyngby north of the Danish capitala little more funny and often much more colourful. In
Copenhagen dedicated a special exhibition to hisdoing so, he works in many different areas, for
works through time. For the exhibition a catalogue withexample 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 theown 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 actuallybeginner so that I must exert myself to meet the
choose later in life. 17 years old Wiinblad followed thisrequirements 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 ofspecific area.