Designer · Norway · 1921–2003
Tormod Alnæs
Tormod Alnæs (1921–2003) – Norwegian designer of Pony in tubular steel and canvas (1954), Norway’s first professor of furniture and interior architecture.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1921–2003
- Country
- Norway
Tormod Alnæs was born on 7 October 1921 in Fredrikstad. In 1948, he graduated from Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole (State College of Art and Craft) in Oslo, where his teachers included Arne Korsmo and Birger Dahl.
Around 1952, he co-designed the modular Tema sofa with Bjørn A. Larsen for Jømna Brug. The Pony (Ponny) model in tubular steel and canvas was designed around 1953 and produced from 1954 by Norway Designs and Asker Stålmøbelfabrikk; at the 1954 Milan Triennale, it received a diplôme d'honneur. Later designs include Toga for Sørliemøbler and Cabin (c. 1975).
In 1971, he received Jacob-prisen, and in 1988 became Norway’s first professor of furniture and interior architecture. The National Museum in Oslo holds three of his works, including the Pony (Ponny) model and the Panco jug from 1953. His oeuvre includes tubular-steel furniture, a modular sofa and functional objects. He died on 22 December 2003 in Biristrand, aged 82.
Key designs
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Tema
modular sofa, with Bjørn A. Larsen
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Pony
tubular steel and canvas, diplôme d'honneur at the 1954 Triennale
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Toga
piece of furniture
