Cecilie Manz (born 1972) is a Danish industrial designer. In November 2017, Manz was awarded designer of the year in the Design Awards by Bo bedre, Costume Living, Nordic Living and Boligmagasiet. In September 2014, she won the Danish Crown Prince Couple's Culture Award (''Kronprinsparrets Kulturpris'') for her contribution to design. Her work of includes furniture, jewellery, lamps and sculptures. Her Mikado table has been included in

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's design collection. Micado sidetable by Cecilie Manz

Early life

Cecilie Manz was born in 1972 in Denmark's Odsherred region on the island of Zealand. She was admitted to the

Danish Design School The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, more commonly known as the Danish Design School (Danish: ''Danmarks Designskole''. often abbreviated as DKDS) is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering a five-yea ...

in Copenhagen and went to Helsinki as an exchange student, studying at the Finnish School of Art and Design, before she graduated in 1997. She then worked briefly in Professor Yrjö Wiherheimo's studio in Helsinki before returning to Copenhagen where she founded her own ''Manz Lab'' in 1998.

Designs

Manz has designed for brands such a
Lightyears
Holmegaard, Nils Holger Moormann, Fredericia Furniture, Fritz Hansen, Muuto and Mooment. Some of her most known designs include the ''Caravaggio'' lamp for Lightyears and the Mikado table. More recently, she has worked with

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designing the functional but retro-looking speaker line of BeoLit