Denmark Decorated

6 May, 2005 in art pottery by admin

Denmark Decorated

Inspiration Products of Bjorn Wiinblad

The three plates illustrate motifs of sowing, sweet idleness and harvesting. Bjorn Wiinblad found inspiration for these silhouette designs in the 1950's in the great Danish teller of fairytales Hans Christian Andersen. Bjorn Wiinblad was born in Copenhagen in 1919 and studied at the Royal Academy of Art & Illustration. In addition to his world renowned ceramics and decorative art objects he created worldwide stage scenes and book illustrations. Rosenthal is now celebrating the work of the beloved designer who designed for the firm for fifty years.

Bjorn Wiinblad successful collaboration all began in 1957 when Philip Rosenthal discovered Wiinblad's ceramics while traveling through Denmark. He was so impressed by the young, imaginative designer’s style of harmonizing both décor and form. This is was the grounding philosophy of the original Rosenthal Studio-Line collections. The meeting with Philip was to become the most important stages in Wiinblad’s artistic career.

For more than 60 years, the wonderfully varied work of Bjorn Wiinblad has been beloved in both his native Denmark and abroad. Bjorn Wiinblad's creativity lent itself to glass, porcelain, interior design, ceramics, and illustrations. Vibrant colors and festive moods are the hallmark of this unique Scandinavian artist's work.

The result of which was a creative, fruitful partnership displaying unusual style and range in the many original forms and patterns her designed for Rosenthal over a period of fifty years. Bjorn died in his home of Denmark just short of seeing the spectacular comprehensive exhibition in Selb Germany of his works in ceramics, glass and cutlery. He was truly a creative and imaginative artist whose works have become highly collected. We now carry works in current production as well as special edition collections. Please purchase on online www.etabletop.com

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Vineyard theme?

Okay, I'm semi-planning my wedding. Not getting married for a couple years, yet. I'm thinking of getting married outdoors in early October (in Denmark, by the way) where it will be cool, but not too chilly. The leaves will just be starting to turn. I kind of want to do a vineyard theme. Basically I want to use autumn colors, maple leaves, english ivy, etc and decorate a garden outdoors. Have fake grape bunches hanging all over everything, and for the wedding arch get a wooden arch and decorate it with the vines and grapes and some orange calla lillies. We'll also have a lot of candles all over and maybe wine bottles in baskets surrounded by grapes as centerpieces. Can anyone give me more ideas for this type of theme, and does it sound like a good one? I'd like to have the cake be plain white, 3 tiers, with dark orange and white flowers decorating it.

For placecards, my brother and his wife used corks from empty wine bottles, slitting each cork partway down the middle and inserting the namecard. Inexpensive (unless you count all the wine bottles' corks needed - I think they had a restaurant connection), stood upright, and totally fits your theme! They also used slightly bigger cards to put the name of each table in, and all the tables were named after types of wine.

Mini bottles of wine were the adult favors. Kids got sparkling grape of course. Wine glasses imprinted with your names, and/or wine glass charms, would also be lovely favors.

Your wedding sounds unique and gorgeous! Congratulations.

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