Mathias Gerhard "Tias" Eckhoff (25 June 1926 – 30 January 2016)
was a Norwegian

industrial designer Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufact ...

. He was born in

Vestre Slidre Vestre Slidre is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Slidre. Other villages in Vestre Slidre include Lomen and Røn. ...

, a son of shipmaster Trygve Eckhoff and Sigrid Einang, and was a brother of

Torstein Eckhoff Torstein Einang Eckhoff (5 June 1916 – 17 April 1993) was a Norwegian civil servant and professor of law at the University of Oslo. Personal life He was born in Vestre Slidre as the son of shipmaster Trygve Eckhoff (1884–1957) and his wi ...

. He worked as designer for Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik from 1949. Among his designs are ''Det riflede '' from 1952, ''Maya'' from 1961, and ''Una'' from 1973. He is represented in various museums, including the

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, and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...

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. He was awarded the

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in 1953. His designs won gold medals at the

Triennale The Triennale di Milano is a design and art museum in the Parco Sempione in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte, which was designed by Giovanni Muzio and built between 1931 and 1933; construction was fina ...

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in 1954, 1957, and 1960.

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1926 births 2016 deaths People from Vestre Slidre Norwegian industrial designers {{Norway-artist-stub