kneeling chairs were originally manufactured by Stokke (now Varier), Håg and Rybo. This chair has been voted one of 50 designs that changed the world. As the name Variable indicates, it was of primary importance for Opsvik that the kneeling posture should be one of many different sitting postures. Product examples are Variable Balans, Gravity Balans, Thatsit Balans, and Wing Balans. Awards Peter Opsvik has been awarded a number of prizes for his work, most recently the European Commissions "Product Safety Award 2019" for Nomi Highchair. Red Dot Award 2013 "Best of Best" for Nomi High chair, Red Dot award 2011 (for Capisco Puls), the IF Product Design gold award 2011 (for Capisco Puls) and the Norwegian Design of Excellence award 2011. Opsvik was awarded The classic award for design excellence in Norway for the chairs Tripp Trapp in 1996 and Håg Capisco. In 2008 he was awarded Anders Jahre's cultural award and the Nordic Design Award (Nordiska Designpriset). Opsvik has also received Torsten & Wanjas Söderbergs design award in Sweden for his pioneering, movable and variable furniture. In 2013 Norsk Form (The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway) awarded Opsvik Jacob-prisen for 2012. Exhibitions Peter Opsvik's furniture-objects have been exhibited around the world. Movement Peter Opsvik, a travelling exhibition initiated by the Norwegian Foreign Affairs, was exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Gent) in 1999, Deutsches Museum (Munich), The Lighthouse (Glasgow) as well as others such as the Design Museum in London, and the Museum of Decorative Art and Design (Gothenburg). His Tripp Trapp Chair is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Some of his other exhibitions have been shown at: The West Norway Museum of Applied Art, Bergen 1996 Kunstlerhaus (Artisthouse) mit Galerie, Göttingen 1990 Gallerie V.I.A, Paris 1990 Applied Art Museum, Oslo 1986 New York, Houston, Chicago and Tokyo in 1982 Wien, Düsseldorf, Den Haag and London in 1981 Copenhagen and London 1979 References Norwegian designers Product design 1939 births Living people People from Stranda Compasso d'Oro Award recipients