Christian Flindt

Lighting, furniture and industrial designer living in Copenhagen Denmark

After graduating as an architect from the School of Architecture in Aarhus Denmark in 2002, including studies at the University of East London, I founded my own studio in 2003.

In my office I develop designs for industrial manufactured products, experimental and research based prototypes and sculptural limited editions.

I work on a daily basis with manufacturers to develop specific designs and have designed several award winning products within the lighting- and furniture industry. For a number of years I have worked closely with the Danish Lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen, developing lamps for both in- and outdoors. Flindt Bollard, Garden, Wall and Plaza. The road luminaire Xperi and a series of large-room pendants - LP Grand.

In parallel and as an extension of designing, I have an interest and curiosity in new technologies and new developments on the materials front, which has led to several research projects with, Risø (The Danish Research Center), DTU-Photonics (Danish Technology University). Knowledge, experiments and prototypes from these studies have later led to award winning industrial products.

Recipient of: Danish National Bank Foundation Honourable Award 2002, Live Better Design Award 2005, Danish Design Award 2007, Danish Art Foundation Three Year Work Grant 2012, Knud V. Engelhardts Memorial Grant 2013, EL-FORSK – Danish Research Award 2014, E. Kold Christensens Award of Honour 2015. LIT-Award UK 2019, German Design Award2019, Danish Design Award 2019.

My work can be spotted out in the real world, but can also be seen at the Danish Design Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Canada, Trapholt Museum, Herning Art Museum, Viborg Art Museum and Ålborg Museum of Modern Art.

I try to create objects, which in the end seem obvious and at the same time encourages people to explore them further.