Jette Frölich (1940), Designer

Jette Frölich has always enjoyed using her hands. She learned embroidery at just five years of age, and she made her own Christmas presents when Christmas was celebrated in style in her childhood home. The festive season was glorious, filled with cheerfulness and conviviality, and it sowed the seed for the lifelong love of Christmas that was to play such an important role in her work as an artist.

It started out as a hobby but soon became a fulltime job for Frölich, who trained as a bilingual secretary. In the late 1960s she started holding a Christmas bazaar in her own home, but her reputation for nimble fingers got about and her creations were soon appearing in the Bo Bedre lifestyle magazine.

In 1974 she jumped at the chance of opening her own shop in Hørsholm, and a couple of years later, in 1976, she started working as a Christmas artist for the Illums Bolighus department store. Then she joined forces with Royal Copenhagen. Untill today Jette Frölich have produced more than fifteenth different Christmas collections for the porcelain factory.

Her home in Nærum north of Copenhagen is her base for creating her Christmas collection, and the source of her inspiration never runs dry. Time after time Jette Frölich is able to transform her own love of Christmas into paper art and decorations that delight the many loyal fans of her work.