Grete Prytz Kittelsen (1917 2010) is regarded as "the queen of
Scandinavian design." Her sphere of influence in the history of
decorative art and design stretches from the Scandinavian Design
period, 1945 65, to today. This book is the first comprehensive
presentation of her work. An artist with an exceptionally broad
scope, she designed jewelry and one-of-a-kind silver articles for
her family s long-established Oslo firm, J. Tostrup, as well as
beautiful utilitarian items in enameled steel and cast iron that
found their way into thousands of homes worldwide in Scandinavia,
the United States, and worldwide.
For half a century Grete Prytz Kittelsen was, along with her
first husband, architect Arne Korsmo, part of the community of
modernist architects and designers that included Ray and Charles
Eames, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe.
Among her European collaborators and friends were Lis and Jorn
Utzon, Alvar Aalto, and Paolo Venini. Yet her work is less familiar
to the general public than the work of her Swedish, Danish, and
Finnish colleagues: this book presents it to new generations and
highlights her role as a central player in the history of
Scandinavian design in the twentieth century.
In these pages the range of her oeuvre is displayed in brilliant
color, with archival material and more than five hundred new
photographs that document her stature as a hollowware designer,
whose production several hundred unique items, including bowls,
dishes, plates, casseroles, and vases was more extensive than that
of any other Norwegian postwar designer, and as a jewelry artist,
who produced a large and innovative range of pieces challenging the
view of jewelry as mere decoration in the era of modernism.
The accompanying text features contributions by leading
Norwegian design scholars, describing Grete Prytz Kittelsen s
professional career in the context of midcentury design, the many
national and international exhibitions she participated in, and the
collections for which she received the Grand Prix at the Milan
Triennale in 1954, among other awards. Collectors and historians
alike will value the biographical chronology and especially the
illustrated catalogue of works."
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