Born in Mariehamn, Finland, Anna Greta Eker came to Norway in the fifties, where she married Erling Christoffersen, the leader of the silver workshop at the applied arts center PLUS in Fredrikstad.

The idea behind this for Norwegian craftsdesigners so important centre founded in 1958, was to establish a design center where designers working with glass, silver, ceramics and textiles were to create good models for the industry.

Eker, who had started up as an industrial designer back in Finland, became one of the leading designers at the silver workshop. Together with other designers such as Tone Vigeland, she induced new energy into the studio production of modern jewelry in Scandinavia.

When the jewelry production at PLUS came to an end in the seventies, this concluded a long period of creating jewelry for for Norway Silver Designs A/S. Eker started up her own workshop using as her artistname 'AGE' from the initials of her name, the same as her hallmark from the PLUS era.

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