Designer · Norway · 1900–1968
Arne Korsmo
Arne Korsmo (1900–1968) – Norwegian architect, designer of Villa Stenersen in Oslo, and co-designer of 1954 Triennale cutlery with Grete Prytz Kittelsen.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1900–1968
- Country
- Norway
Arne Korsmo was born on 14 August 1900 in Kristiania (now Oslo). In 1926, he obtained his NTH diploma in Trondheim; from 1929, he ran his own practice, in partnership with Sverre Aasland until 1935. From 1936, he taught at Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole in Oslo, and from 1956 he was a professor at NTH.
His completed works include Villa Stenersen in Oslo and the Norwegian pavilion at the World's Fair in Paris in 1937, designed with Knutsen and Schistad. He designed furniture mainly for his own buildings; it was made by Josef Kussius in Oslo. At the Milan Triennale in 1954, where the Norwegian display received the Grand Prix, cutlery in the Korsmo-plett pattern, designed jointly with Grete Prytz Kittelsen, was shown; examples were acquired by the Smithsonian.
Grete Prytz was his wife from 1945 to 1960. The collections of Nasjonalmuseet (Arkitekturmuseet) in Oslo include, among other things, a drawing of an exhibition of works by Grete and Arne Korsmo at Skansen in Stockholm from 1955. He died in 1968 in Cuzco, Peru.
Key designs
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Korsmo-plett
cutlery, with Grete Prytz Kittelsen
