The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize was awarded annually to "an active Nordic designer or craftsperson". The prize was administered by the Röhsska Museum. The prize sum amounted to 1 million SEK. The funding came from the foundations established by the brothers Torsten Söderberg and Ragnar Söderberg on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Torsten Söderberg. The family founded the Swedish iron and steel wholesale company Söderberg & Haak a few generations earlier. The Torsten Söderbergs later took of the funding of the prize in its entirety.
Past laureates 1994 Jane Reumert, Denmark 1995 Liv Blåvarp, Norway 1996 Brita Flander, Finland 1997 Mats Theselius, Sweden 1998 Louise Sass, Denmark 1999 Nordic design writers: Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson, Iceland; Kaj Kalin, Finland;John Vedel-Rieper, Denmark; Jorunn Veiteberg, Norway; and Kerstin Wickman, Sweden 2000 Peter Opsvik, Norway 2001 Björn Dahlström, Sweden 2002 HC Ericson, Sweden 2003 Sigurdur Gústafsson, Iceland 2004 Janna Syvänoja, Finland 2005 Anna Rosén, Cynthia Charwick, Maria Uggla, Maria Widell Christiansen, Camilla Palmertz, Eva-Lisa Andersson, Elna Holmberg, Lena Ekelund and Tatiana Butovitsch Temm, Sweden 2006 Ole Jensen, Denmark 2007 Norway Says; Torbjørn Anderssen, Andreas Engesvik and Espen Voll, Norway 2008 Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Iceland 2009 Harri Koskinen, Finland 2010 Front: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken and Anna Lindgren, Sweden 2011 Henrik Vibskov, Denmark 2012 Sigurd Bronger, Norway 2013 Hjalti Karlsson, Iceland 2014 Ann-Sofie Back, Sweden 2015 Ilkka Suppanen, Finland 2016 Margrethe Odgaard, Denmark 2017 Daniel Rybakken, Norway 2018 Brynjar Sigurðarson, Iceland
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