Cecilie Manz, born 1972, lives and works in Copenhagen. After graduation from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Cecilie Manz founded her own studio in Copenhagen in 1998.She is recipient of the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal 2011, the Bruno Mathsson Prize 2009, Kunstpreis Berlin 2008, the Finn Juhl Architectural Prize 2007, The Furniture Prize 2007, the Three-Year Working Grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and several other grants.