Sigurd Resell trained to be a cabinetmaker before he began his studies at the wood department at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo from 1943-47. After graduation, Resell was employed at Rastad & Relling architectural office, where he stayed until 1968. For Rastad & Relling, Resell designed several pieces of furniture including the armchair Blinken from 1956 and the Bambi chair.
During the 1950s Resell was also active in the furnishing of the Norwegian Storting (the Norwegian Parliament building). In 1959 Resell won several prizes at Copenhagen Snedkerlaugs exhibition for the armchair SR59. During the 1960s Resell designed several steelpipe armchairs including Sirkel.
In 1968 Resell became the chief designer at Vatne Lenestolfabrikk for which he designed his most well-known piece, the lounge chair Falcon from 1971. Falcon led to the company tripled their turnover in ten years. Falcon has a base of steel tubes or laminated wood on which a leather upholstery is suspended on four points.
During the 1980s Resell designed the steel pipe chair Tube for Vatne Lenestolfabrikk and the stackable chair Line for Sørlimøbler.
In 1990 he was given a retrospective called Sigurd Resell "Stoler gjenom 30 år", at the Galleri Vognremissen in Oslo. Sigurd Resell died in 2010 at the age of 90.
