Of the designers working with the Tostrup company,
Gudmund Elvestad is amongst thoose with the highest Modernistic quality.
Designing for Tostrup from 1960, he made both corpus/hollow-ware and jewelry.
His jewelry of a very 'raw' almost brutal expression can be seen as related
to some of Gine Sommerfeldt's early work. His designs are found in several
churches, having been commissioned to create altar silver.
After finishing studies for goldsmithery he got an apprenticeship at
the David-Andersen company 1950-54. Studying at the National College of
Art and Design (NCAD) 1954-59. Amongst several scholarships that he got
were the Fulbright Scholarship 1959-60, that took him to Cranbrooh Academy
of Art, Michigan.
Back in Norway Gudmund Elvestad started working for Tostrup. He also
worked on a free lance basis for the company Sønnica in Oslo. From
1964 he went into another field when he started designing glass for the
small company 'Randsfjorden Glassverk', where famous female glass artist
Benny Motzfeldt was artistic leader from 1967. In 1966 Elvestad took the
position of leader of the goldsmith class at National College of Art and
Design (NCAD), a position until then held by Oscar Sørensen, another
prominent designer at Tostrup.
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Silver brooch,
partly patinated/oxidized, 1960s.
Silver brooch,
partly patinated/oxidized, 1960s.
Silver brooch,
partly patinated/oxidized, 1960s.
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