Oskar Andrej Kogoj (born 23 November 1942) is a Slovene

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Biography

Oskar Kogoj was born in

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, then part of the

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. He went to a high school that specialises in design in

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and studied in the industrial design program () at the Art Institute of Venice (). He graduated in 1966. Until 1969, he was employed at the institute as an advisor for the company Baby Mark in

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. During 1969 and 1970, he worked at the Research and Design Department of the Meblo furniture company in

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. He was the supervisor of the Department of Industrial Design at the International University of Florence and Venice from 1971 to 1975. As a freelance designer, he also designed children's toys for the company Ciciban and has more recently focused on various objects made out of natural materials, particularly

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, all the way from simple glasses up to the Venetian horse, which includes revelations during the research of millennial cultures. His work is displayed at over 100 museums and collections around the globe. Since 1969, he has received over 40 international awards and recognitions. In 1971, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for a series of armchair loungers he designed alongside Stane Bernik,

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and Boris Ferlat and were produced by Meblo. He is also a member of multiple international design and art associations, a list which includes the renowned Circolo Artistico Veneziano from 1996.

References

1942 births Living people Slovenian industrial designers People from the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica {{Slovenia-artist-stub