Oskar Kogoj
He went to a high school that specialises in design in Ljubljana[1] and studied in the industrial design program (Italian: Corso Superiore di Disegno Industriale) at the Art Institute of Venice (Italian: Istituto Statale d'Arte di Venezia).During 1969 and 1970, he worked at the Research and Design Department of the Meblo furniture company in Nova Gorica.As a freelance designer, he also designed children's toys for the company Ciciban and has more recently focused on various objects made out of natural materials, particularly glass, all the way from simple glasses up to the Venetian horse, which includes revelations during the research of millennial cultures.In 1971, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for a series of armchair loungers he designed alongside Stane Bernik, Janko Sušnik and Boris Ferlat and were produced by Meblo.He is also a member of multiple international design and art associations, a list which includes the renowned Circolo Artistico Veneziano from 1996.