Meditation
When Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations, he created “a room of quiet” in the UN building in New York, where people could withdraw in silence. He ordered a fresco by Bo Beskow for the back wall and, apart from a large ironstone rock, the only pieces of furniture were eight stools designed by Carl Malmsten. The stools are still there.
In connection with the Carl Malmsten exhibition at the Waldemarsudde museum in 2013, a numbered edition of 125 stools were produced. It celebrated the 125th anniversary of the designer’s birth, explaining the total amount of stools.
DESIGNED
1956
SIZE
Height: 41 cm Width: 65 cm Depth: 41 cm
MATERIAL
Solid oak, seat in braided seaweed.
SURFACE TREATMENT
Hardwax oil