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Peter Opsvik was born on 25 March, 1939 in Stranda, Norway, is a Norwegian industrial designer (born 1939). Discover Peter Opsvik's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March, 1939
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Stranda, Norway
Nationality Norway

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Peter Opsvik is a Norwegian industrial designer best known for his innovative and ergonomic chairs, and the father of Jazz bass player Eivind Opsvik.

Opsvik's furniture can be found under the brand names: Rybo (Garden), Nomi High Chair, Håg (Capisco, H04, H05, Conventio Wing), Varier (Balans), Stokke (Tripp Trapp) Naturellement (Reflex), Cylindra (Furniture objects) and Moment (Globe).

1972

He has been a member of Christiania Jazz band from 1972 and the band Christiania 12 from 1993.

His probably best known work is the adjustable Tripp Trapp (1972) chair for children, the first chair that "grows" with the child from toddler to teenager.

It is manufactured by the company Stokke and has sold in more than seven million copies.

1980

The saddle chair Håg Capisco was launched in the 1980s and inspired by the horseback rider's dynamic posture.

The goal, however, was to create a sitting device or work chair that would invite the user to assume the greatest number of sitting postures possible.

1996

Opsvik was awarded The classic award for design excellence in Norway for the chairs Tripp Trapp in 1996 and Håg Capisco.

1999

Movement Peter Opsvik, a travelling exhibition initiated by the Norwegian Foreign Affairs, was exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Gent) in 1999, Deutsches Museum (Munich), The Lighthouse (Glasgow) as well as others such as the Design Museum in London, and the Museum of Decorative Art and Design (Gothenburg).

His Tripp Trapp Chair is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Some of his other exhibitions have been shown at:

2008

In 2008 he was awarded Anders Jahre's cultural award and the Nordic Design Award (Nordiska Designpriset).

Opsvik has also received Torsten & Wanjas Söderbergs design award in Sweden for his pioneering, movable and variable furniture.

2009

His book Rethinking Sitting came out in 2009 giving insight into his thinking about sitting and explaining the philosophy behind his chairs.

Peter Opsvik is also a jazz musician.

2010

In 2010 this design classic was made accessible for a wider audience when the Capisco Puls was launched.

A balancing tilt is highly advantageous since the user automatically controls the tilting movements of the chair without having to think about it.

The user can concentrate on his/her activities and does not have to bother with mechanical regulation of the chair.

The chair follows the natural inclinations of the body and automatically stabilises at the body's selected sitting angles or at the angles that are required by the work task being done.

The simplest way of verifying this is to try out one of his chairs in front of a work table during a normal working day.

The chair tilts forward when the user want to be active at the table and tilts backwards if the user wants to relax or talk on the telephone.

Often such variations occur many times per minute.

Hans Chr.

Mengshoel initiated the concept of kneeling chair posture in Norway, and Peter Opsvik was one of three designers who developed chairs based on this principle that all had Balans in their names.

The others were Oddvin Rykken, and prof. Svein Gusrud.

Peter Opsvik's kneeling chairs were originally manufactured by Stokke (now Varier), Håg and Rybo.

This chair has been voted one of 50 designs that changed the world.

As the name Variable indicates, it was of primary importance for Opsvik that the kneeling posture should be one of many different sitting postures.

Product examples are Variable Balans, Gravity Balans, Thatsit Balans, and Wing Balans.

2013

In 2013, together with Evomove.com, he launched the Nomi high chair concept.

Red Dot Award 2013 "Best of Best" for Nomi High chair, Red Dot award 2011 (for Capisco Puls), the IF Product Design gold award 2011 (for Capisco Puls) and the Norwegian Design of Excellence award 2011.

In 2013 Norsk Form (The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway) awarded Opsvik Jacob-prisen for 2012.

Peter Opsvik's furniture-objects have been exhibited around the world.

2019

Peter Opsvik has been awarded a number of prizes for his work, most recently the European Commissions "Product Safety Award 2019" for Nomi Highchair.