Nationality Danish Occupation Architect | Name Grethe Meyer | |
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Died June 25, 2008(2008-06-25) (aged 90) Awards Thorvald Bindesboll Medal | ||
Grethe Henriette Kjældgaard Meyer (8 April 1918 – 25 June 2008) was a Danish architect and designer. She had her own studio from 1960 where she designed cutlery. Her dinnerware designs for Royal Copenhagen had a simple, timeless look. Her work is exhibited internationally.
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Biography
Born on 8 April 1918 in Svendborg, she was the daughter of Peter Christian Meyer, a director, and Meta Kirstine Kjældgaard, a pianist. After matriculating from high school, she studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where she graduated in 1947.
While still at the Academy, she started to work on Bykkebogen, a manual on evolving architectural styles and decor widely used for teaching purposes (1948–70). She then worked as a researcher at the Statens Byggeforskningsinstitut (Danish Institute for Building Research) in Copenhagen before establishing her own firm in 1960.
Among her most successful designs are the Boligens Byggeskabe storage system (1954–59) which she developed together with Børge Mogensen and the Stub & Stamme series of drinking glasses (1958–60) in cooperation with Ibi Trier Mørch. But above all she is remembered for her designs for the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory, especially her Blåkant (Blue Line) faience dinner service (1965), her Hvidpot (White Pot) porcelain dinner service (1972) and her Ildpot (Fire Pot) ovenware (1976). In 1991, she designed the set of cutlery known as Copenhagen for Georg Jensen.
Meyer was also a member of the board of the Architects' Association of Denmark (1964–65) and of the Danish Design Council (1977).
Awards
Among the many awards she received are: