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Copyright 1991, Olafur Thordarson

Double faced worm shelf   Furring strips and cast resin    200 x 183 x 37 cm    Design 1991
 

MONSTERS exhibition at Reykjavik City Hall 2007.

MONSTERS exhibition at Reykjavik City Hall 2007. Suspended polyurethane resin maps of Iceland with various references to the current national character.
Series of 24 works, various dimensions, each 30-125cm wide


UL1
Light study design 1999-2000, currently at the "European Design since 1985" exhibition in Indianapolis.

Olafur Thordarson brings us the fresh element  of surprise, experimentation, guts and daring to create art/objects-often intertwined-into objects of desire, full of surprises and innovation...his red cabinet, which is ... made of 800 pieces of furring strips is an ingenious combination of the old and new.    George Beylerian... 

Excerpt from the book Olafur Thordarson, p. 26, published 2001


Gegnumgangur-Passage; Book with the hole.
124 page publication on Thordarson's work from 1977-2007. Published in June 2007.

Thordarson's floating sculpture in place in an east Iceland river.

Eilífðardraumurinn. 40 ft sculpture. Floating in an Icelandic glacial river, moving against the stream in an ongoing moving image of a vessel. Polyurethane resin foam, 1200x280x380 cm. 6 Tons, Commissioned by Landsvirkjun, Iceland
 

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Listamaður arkitekt hönnuður. Ólafur Þórðarson kennari í hönnun við Rhode Island School of Design. Icelandic art. Artist, architect, designer, teacher at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design. Iceland design. Icelandic designer. Designer Ólafur Thordarson. Designer architect Ólafur Thórdarson. Designer architect Olafur Thórdarson. Icelandic artist. Icelandic architect Olafur Thordarson, Icelandic artist in New York, Manhattan. Icelandic design, Icelandic New Yorker. Icelandic architect living in New York. Ólafur Þórðarson arkitekt og hönnuður í New York, 911 resident, Iceland ice-cube tray, delirium tremens, worm shelves, New York designer, Columbia University GSAPP, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee SARUP,