Flor, T: Dysthe Design

Trinelise Dysthe is an interior designer (MNIL) and employee of Dysthe Design AS. She has worked for Aftenposten as a design critic and columnist and has over the years contributed numerous articles about design, architecture and the environment to other journals and magazines. Thomas Flor, artist, curator and writer, Flor has curated several design exhibitions and written catalogues for The Museum of Decorative Arts in Trondheim and for Blomqvist Fine Art and Utopia in Oslo. Since 2001 he has written about Norwegian and international design in a number of books. Flor has recently prepared a catalogue raisonne for the artist Per Kleiva and is currently working on the 2013 Sven Ivar Dysthe retrospective at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Dr Widar Halen, director of Design and Decorative Arts at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Author of more than one hundred scholarly articles in Norwegian and international art periodicals, (co-)author of numerous books on design and crafts, and organiser of several exhibitions and accompanying catalogues. Widar Halen is also a member of the boards of the Nordic Forum for Design History and the Torsten and Wanja Soderberg Prize Committee. He is former president of ICOM-ICDAD and currently curator of the exhibition 'Dysthe Design: Swinging 60'.