About me

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Name
Jeanette Vallebæk Holdgaard

About
"-You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hello there,

My name is Jeanette (born 1986) and I'm a young Danish Designer who has a big passion for furniture, lighting, interior design & the environment. I love the concept of recycling and repurposeing wonderful items which many regard as junk. Using pieces of discarded junk, I recreate a unique, recycled one of a kind piece of furniture, lighting and interior accessorie, each piece infused with its own previous character but with a new function or a new style.

My work is not about mass production and its definitely not about using more of the earths resources we seem to constantly consume as societies, but to find those already existing wonderful objects from the past and giving those items a new lease of life, bringing them into the modern world once again as unique sustainable works.

Thanks for visiting my site and feel free to mail me if you have any questions or enquires!

Work experience:
Currently I am working on two design projects, one in collaboration with Billund Airport and the other is Kvadrat.
I have also worked with Steens Furniture and Phucisme.

Current Education:
Design Technologist specializing in furniture design 5 semester.

Former Education
2006 Completed Higher Preparatory Examination
2004 Completed BTEC First Diploma in Art and Design Bradford England
2003 Finished 10th Class Juelsminde school
2002 Finished ninth Class Juelsminde school

Professional Experience
2007 - 2009 Sales person at Natuzzi furniture store in Aarhus
2006 - 2007 Sales person at furinture and design specialist store The Home in Saltaire, UK.

Courses:
- A.A. 2012 Design.it - Afull immersion in the language and making of Italien design in Milan at Politecnico University
- 03.06. 2008 - 04.06. 2008 The AMU in Upholstered furniture
- Numerous sales courses while I was working in Natuzzi
- Vitra day course at The Home