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Biography 

Kasper Salto was trained as a cabinet maker from 1985 to 1988 at the workshop of Jørgen Wolff in Hellerup, DK. In 1989 studying Industrial design at The Danish design school in Copenhagen, and later a semester at Art Center in Switzerland. After graduation he worked freelance at the studio of Rud Thygesen where he met Peter Stærk who was the founder of Botium. Peter Stærk was the manufacturer of the Runner chair that became known in Denmark, winning five international design prizes such as the Japanese G-prize. The design of the Runner chair started the career of Kasper Salto. The chair was spotted at The SE-design exhibition in 1997 by Bjørn Stegger, the designmanager of the furniture company Fritz Hansen, and it led to a long lasting relation. Kasper Salto started his own studio in 1998, working with Fritz Hansen and developing successful products from 1999, such as the ICE series, LITTLE FRIEND table, the NAP and PLURALIS meeting table. The ICE chair series has achieved great sales all over the world, but also received the French design award, Le Grand Prix du Design. Besides from teaching at The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Kasper Salto has been a member in several boards, such as The association of Danish furniture industry and the Danish Crafts council, and Knud V Engelhardt foundation.

His design of furniture has sold to prominent places, such as The National Art Center, Tokyo, Lousiana art museum, Denmark. In 2004 he founded the design company Salto & Sigsgaard with Architect Thomas Sigsgaard, working mainly in the field of product design, lighting – and also interior. In 2011 Salto & Sigsgaard won the prestigious competition “New furniture for the Trusteeship council chamber in the HQ of The United Nations” in New York. The Trusteeship council was designed by Finn Juhl in the fifties and needed, together with the whole building of the UN,  a huge restoration. The room is today perceived as one out of the three greatest Danish architecture masterpieces outside Denmark.

Salto & Sigsgaard has also organized exhibitions like “Mindcraft” for the organization Danish Crafts, held at The Salone di mobile in Milan in 2013. Salto & Sigsgaard was also commissioned to design of stationary furniture inside the internal “foyér” in the famous “Radiohuset” designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen, and build during the 2. world war.

Recently Salto & Sigsgaard has done a huge design and restoration project at The New Carlsberg foundation in Brolæggerstræde, Copenhagen. The project was to design a kind of transit for the art pieces coming in, and going out again, -at the same time  exhibiting the art pieces. And also a more permanent residence for the Art books and paintings that is supported by the Foundation was made.