Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt

Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt is a designer and artist who creates organic products using geometric shapes. She studied ceramics in Japan, followed by a period of time at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Glasgow School of Art. After graduating the young designer spent 15 years working with ceramics, before moving on to exploring the possibilities of working with more natural materials such as wood and painted surfaces. In 2008 she designed the Bau Pendant which is now produced by Normann Copenhagen and in 2012 decided to focus her efforts on lighting design.

Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt’s work is methodical, driven by a system and its inherent possibilities. By the repetition and the spatial dimensions and symmetries that are broken down, shifted and displaced to give rise to new constellations. Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt’s lamps are shaped by precise and painstaking craftsmanship.

"There is something akin to being in love, in the process of creating the computer drawings, having the sheets cut and finally assembling them. Going from visualization to tangible reality is an amazing and very satisfying process." - Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt