Cecilie Manz
- Nationality
- Danish
- Occupation
- Designers
Cecilie Manz, Danish designer was born in 1972, lives and works in Copenhagen and founded her own studio in Copenhagen in 1998.
She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design in 1997 with further studies at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki,
Cecilie Manz designs furniture, glass, lamps and related products, mainly for the home. In addition to his work with industrial products, his experimental prototypes and more sculptural unique pieces are an important part of his work and approach:
"I consider all my works as fragments of a great ongoing history where projects are often linked or linked in terms of ideas, materials and aesthetics, through time and function: some objects remain experiments or sculpted ideas, others are made more concrete and become functional tools.
The task or project itself often holds the key to inspiration; ideas do not come from waiting but from field work, writing and testing. My work goes from the inside out, and a project must have a solid, solid and relevant functional idea or justification before I can address the actual physical design. My work has always revolved around simplicity, the work process towards a pure, aesthetic and narrative object."
Recipient of the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal 2011, the Bruno Mathsson Prize 2009, the Kunstpreis Berlin Prize 2008, the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize 2007, the Furniture Prize 2007, the Crown Prince Cultural Prize 2014, the three-year scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundation and several other grants.
She has worked with several brands including Fritz Hansen, B&O, Fredericia Furniture, Nils Holger Moormann, Lightyears, Muuto, Georg Jensen Damask, Iittala, Kähler, Offecct, Actus/Nissin...
Cecilie Manz was voted "Creator of the Year 2018."
