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Peter Opsvik was born in 1939 on the western coast of Norway. His college training was on applied art at the Bergen College between the years 1959 and 1963. He also studied at the State College of Applied Art between 1963 and 1964, and afterwards worked as a designer in the industrial sector at the Tandberg Radio Factory in Oslo. In the year 1967 Peter Opsvik won a scholarship which enabled him to spend time at the design studio in London.

In his years as a working designer, Opsvik's major objective was to look into the shape of people and their relationship with the spatial expanse around them. He therefore did not see that his role was solely of a designer but also as a problem solver for the contemporary man. His central focus was on the way human beings sit. To extend his logic and assertion about sitting by humans, Opsvik worked deeply on the history and roots of the human form. He also coupled this with an explanation that dug into the fact that man is a consistent nomad at whatever place. Opsvik had a conceptual common phrase that stated that ‘the sitting position is the best one.

Peter Opsvik is also the owner of a consultancy company at the centre of Oslo in which he works and administrates with his seven business partners. This office contains a large room where his great works lie as well as his projects. His combination of design, inspiration and music gives him a unique life of his own. It provides him with a significant environment necessary for creative design and ideal refinement.

Peter Opsvik, the architect of the Tripp Trapp chair, is one of the head furniture designers in Norway. His main objective was to come up with chair designs that were flexible to movement from one person to another. He came up with what is commonly called the ‘rethinking solution.' This is a thinking mode or process that serves as an explanation for the various seating solutions. The process would be made possible and understandable to the user and reader by following his texts and examples, hence explaining his philosophy. This is what was called the Opsvik design philosophy.

The philosophy of Opsvik

emanated from the fact that whether it is within the industrialised world or the contemporary society, furniture and chairs have become significant equipment in the work place, institutions and even in people's homes. He therefore came up with bodily designed shapes for chairs that would make sitting comfortable. The chairs were also meant to initiate flexibility and movement of the body and the chair from one place to another.

Opsvik fancies the externalities of furniture designs. Again, he likes to create chairs in which emotional response is intermingled with visual forms. It therefore becomes evincible that he designs chairs not for abstract reasons but for practical purposes. Consequentially, Opsvik believes that achieving unison between these two extremities provides a formidable comfort. Design coupled with inspiration defined Peter Opsvik's career.

Second Hand Designer Furniture

Paper and cardboard are being transformed into groovy and recyclable interiors accessories and, surprisingly sturdy furniture in the hands of the worlds? leading contemporary designers. The UK currently gets through 12.5 million tonnes of paper and board per annum of which over 4.7 million tonnes ends up heading for land fill where, although it may well be biodegradeable, it's destined to produce methane gas, a major contributor to global warming. Don't bin it! Recycling uses an average of 50% less energy consumption compared with incinerating paper and cardboard, over the entire life-cycle.

Furniture

Art meets matter www.artmeetsmatter.co.uk

Foldable, recyclable and postable Factum recycled paper board furniture sporting various designs including an exuberant chintz as well as plain for DIY ?graffiti? finishes.

Farm Designs www.farmdesigns.co.uk

Designer Giles Miller transforms corrugated cardboard into a honeycomb?esque rocker chair and bench. And, using a technique called fluting that exploits the corrugations, he also transforms the material into a surprisingly decorative screen, lamp and table.

It www.tarabox.com

The lightweight itbed base is made from 7mm cardboard and is designed to expand and contract, concertina style, enabling it to be packed away when not in use. It comes in two variations, one for futons and one for mattresses, and four sizes.

junction4a www.junction4a.com

Durable, flat-pack cardboard stools boasting both environmental and ergonomic attributes. Ideally suited to customisation with artwork (there's a limited edition version called Graffiti by Sharon Elphick) or company logos, the regular size costs a very reasonable ?9.90, although there is a minimum order of 250! The limited edition designs can be bought individually for ?60.

Muji www.muji.eu

?Craft? or grey coloured pulp board storage/shelving units.

Paperpod www.paperpod.co.uk

Range of environmentally friendly and sturdy flat-pack designs for kids? play made from recycled corrugated cardboard and left blank for children to decorate themselves. Options take in chairs, toy fort, dolls house and playhouse.

ReturDesign www.returdesign.com

An eye-popping range of sturdy, contemporary ?sustainable eco furniture? taking in shelves, tables, seating and screens from Sweden. Made with 100% cellulose, the designs are rendered practically incombustible with a secret salt solution. For added longevity, special paint and lacquer finishes are available.

Screens

John Paul Jacques www.jpjacques.com

Grid-like Shoji screens made from maple frames in filled with Japanese paper, for use as unobtrusive sliding room dividers, freestanding screens, cupboard and wardrobe doors or window treatments etc.

Molo www.molodesign.com

Canadian architectural design outfit famous for their ?soft wall?, a flexible paper room divider-cum-screen which comes in white, kraft (brown) and black and is recyclable.

Flooring

Crucial Trading www.crucial-trading.com

Ten styles of 100% woven paper yarn carpet for use as freestanding or fully fitted floor coverings.

Skandium www.skandium.com

The eco-friendly Woodnotes? flooring collection from Finland is spun from kraft paper, dyed without use of organic halogen compounds or heavy metals and is biodegradable. Standard rugs come in various chic patterns and colours and combinations thereof.

Fabric

Somic www.somic.co.uk

Kraft paper spinners and weavers producing a wide range of cords, braids and weaves in various natural and coloured shades.

Lighting

Bomdesign www.bomdesign.nl

Dutch designers with a witty way with recycled materials. Their book lamp or (boeklampen) transforms used books into decorative shades.

Paul Lighterness www.salone-coex.com

?In the shade? is a nifty metal disc augmented with plastic rivets which transforms old postcards, tube tickets, and take away menus etc into a bespoke pendant light shade.

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