After working as a carpenter in Oslo (NO) from 2003 to 2005, Marius Myking (1983, Norway) studied Interior and Furniture Design in Bergen (NO) from 2006 to 2009. He held an internship with Feleti Design Consultants in Bergen. In 2011 Marius took his master’s degree in Interior Design at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (US).
He started Marius Myking Studio in Norway and is currently operating from Brooklyn, NY. The studio teams up with ambitious companies and partners to develop brand strategies, products and spaces through design. Since the summer of 2011 the studio has been engaged as Project Manager and Senior Designer for the multi-award winning international Todd Bracher Studio on projects ranging from designing products, furniture, interiors and brand strategies for multiple large international brands and companies.
Marius Myking Bjørnsen received the first anniversary Prize for the 75th anniversary of the design magazine BoNytt in 2011.
His design of the ‘We Get Along chair’ produced by Mitab (Figure 1) took him to an international platform. The big and airy easy chair has a Bauhaus feeling to its design. “I always strive to design timeless solutions with an emphasis on how my work connects with the end user and with its context. However, every now and then it is fun to just do something beautiful. As a designer my goal is to challenge and dare the people and companies I work with to reach for a higher level. Directed through working closely with everyday experts in their own field, I am able to find new solutions paired with the right materials. Rather than focusing on how something should look, I start every project by identifying what problems are worth solving, then figure out what material can add the desired quality.”

Glass tables by Marius Myking Studio
The ‘1384’ is a one-off table (Figure 2) that consists of welded steel rods defining space. A glass plate makes it possible that the construction is seen. The construction induces a feeling of ‘small branches in the woods’ and gives the object a natural feeling, characteristic for the design from the Scandinavian countries.
‘Blåst’ (2013) is a side-table mouth blown from coloured glass (Figure 3). The side-table was produced in Norway with the help from the glass artist Vidar Koksvik and his assistants. The traditional handcrafted process of layering, heating and reheating glass, while constantly adding volume by blowing and forming, has granted the ‘blast’ table a unique and one-of-a-kind surface quality. The tables were specially designed and made for the Reclaim NYC X2 exhibition in New York during the Design Week. Based on his philosophy of timeless design but with an occasional excursion into one-off objects making experiments possible, the design by Marius Myking Studio obtains an extra dimension.

References:
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