A little about the man
Bruno Mathsson
Bruno Mathsson (1907 – 1988) was the son of a cabinetmaker who grew up in the Swedish town of Värnamo. After a short period of education at school, he started working in his father’s gallery. He quickly found great interest in furniture and especially in chairs and their function and design. In the 1920s and 1930s he developed a technique for building bentwood chairs with hemp straps. The first model, called “The Grasshopper”, was used in Värnamo Hospital in 1931.
Edgar Kaufmann Jr., the director of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, collected Mathsson's chairs and included them in several exhibitions in the 1940s. Kaufmann equated Mathsson's importance to furniture design with that of Alvar Aalto.
Mathsson was also an experienced architect. He completed around 100 buildings in the 1940s and 50s. He was the first architect in Sweden to build complete glass buildings with underfloor heating. His furniture showroom in Värnamo (1950) was a significant example. It is well preserved and open to visitors today.
For his glass houses he developed double and triple-pane insulated glass units called the “Bruno unit”. He travelled extensively in the US and was strongly influenced by George Fred Keck’s solar hose. Mathsson’s architecture was also influenced by a visit to the Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames in March, 1949, just as it had just been completed. ( Source )
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ORIGINAL BRUNO MATHSSON CHAIR WIRE
Famous Swedish furniture design with beautiful wicker
Bruno Mathsson is one of the most famous and recognized Swedish architects and designers of all time. Much of his furniture dates back to the 1930s and 40s. One area where Mathsson's furniture stood out was the bending of laminated wood, which opened up a whole new world of design.
Bruno Mathsson is particularly known for his chairs with webbing, and this is also what we mainly do here when it comes to his furniture.
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ORIGINAL BRUNO MATHSSON CHAIR WIRE
Braided classics
His Pernilla and Eva armchairs are also known for their high seating comfort. You often see a Bruno Mathsson chair in the homes of architects and such slightly older connoisseurs and can also be obtained with a footstool. Some very fine and beautiful chairs. The wicker is characterized by a drawn pattern with straps, which are available in different expressions in the color, and can also be made with leather.
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