Peter Opsvik was born in 1939 on the west coast of Norway. Her college education is the art applied to the Bergen College years between 1959 and 1963. Also studied at the State College of Applied Arts between 1963 and 1964, then worked as a designer in the industry to the factory Radio Tandberg in Oslo. For the year 1967 Peter Opsvik won a scholarship which enabled him to spend time studying design in London.
In his last years as a designer working Opsvik main objective was to examine the form of people and their relationship to the vastness of space around them. Therefore, he sees that his role was only a designer but also as a problem solver for the contemporary man. Its central theme is how human beings sitting. To extend its logic and the assertion of the meeting by humans Opsvik worked in depth on history and roots of the human form. He also combined with an explanation of what has dug the fact that man is a nomad in any coherent place. Opsvik was a common conceptual sentence which stated that "the sitting position is best.
Peter Opsvik is also the owner a business counseling center in Oslo, where he works and handles its seven partners. This office includes a large room where his major works are detected, and its projects. Its combination of design, inspiration and the music gives him a unique life of its own. Is to provide an environment of considerable need creativity and sophistication ideal.
Peter Opsvik, the architect of the Tripp Trapp, is a chief designer furniture in Norway. Its main objective was to develop projects both flexible chair for movement from one person to another. Arriving at what is commonly called the "cooling-off solution. This is a way of thinking or a process that serves as an explanation for the different solutions to serve. The process could be made possible and understandable to the user and the reader, the remainder of his texts and examples, then, explaining his philosophy. This is called design philosophy Opsvik.
The philosophy of Opsvik
emanated from the fact that if you're in the industrialized world or contemporary society furniture and chairs have become important equipment in the workplace, institutions and even in houses of people. He was then raised with the body forms designed for the comfortable chairs that make sitting. The chairs were also designed to open the flexibility and movement body and the chair from one place to another.
Fantasies Opsvik externalities furniture designs. Once again, he likes to create chairs in which the affective response coincides with the visual forms. It becomes provable that the drawings are no chairs for abstract patterns, but for practical purposes. Therefore, Opsvik believes that voice to reach between these two extremes provides outstanding comfort. Design coupled with inspiration from the career of Peter's Opsvik.
