{"id":2768,"date":"2018-12-07T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlmalmsten.se\/carl-malmsten\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:11:20","slug":"carl-malmsten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carlmalmstenstiftelsen.se\/en\/carl-malmsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Malmsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\u201cNeither light, nor eyes or people like bumping into sharp corners\u201d, he explained. Therefore, all edges had to be smoothed so that they were kinder to the eye and to the touch. Carl Malmsten (1888\u20131972) is not only one of the most famous furniture designer in Sweden. He was also one of the great cultural celebrities of the last century, with a strong influence on domestic and public environments and the social debate of the time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Matchstick Palace<\/p><\/div>\r\n

His career started in 1915. When the results of a furniture competition for the massive new building project, the Stockholm City Hall, were announced, the surprised jury realised that they had awarded both first and second prize to a hitherto unknown designer. The interior of the Council Chamber and other meeting rooms in the City Call became a great break-through for Carl Malmsten, and the furniture is still used by the City Council. Oddly enough, the beautiful writing chair with which he won the competition, never found a place in the building.<\/p>\r\n

In the 1920s, Carl Malmsten became one of the most sought-after interior and furniture designer in Sweden. Prestigious commissions were rolling in. As a wedding gift to Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Lady Louise Mountbatten, he designed a comfortable living room at Ulriksdal Palace. The architect Ivar Tengbom engaged him for the Stockholm Concert Hall, Ivar Kreuger\u2019s Matchstick Palace and the Swedish Institute in Rome. Waldorf Astoria in New York phoned and asked Carl Malmsten to make the furnishings and furniture for bedrooms, salons and dining rooms. Banks, insurance companies, the Riksdag \u2013 as soon as luxurious board rooms were required, his name was mentioned.<\/p>\r\n

In connection with the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, Carl Malmsten took a stand against the sterile varieties of functionalism. Malmsten himself was accused of being a narrow-minded apostle of handicrafts, disregarding the great production factor of the time: industry. It was not until after the war that Malmsten started combining handicraft and industry in his work. Up until then, the furniture had been made at the school he started in 1930 (see below) and at a number of joinery workshops suited to artisanal production. He established contact with a group of high-quality small industries, the so called Key Workshops.<\/p>\r\n

The break-through came in 1956, with an exhibition at the R\u00f6hsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg. For the first time, Malmsten showed furniture designed for serial production, and which soon found their way into the Swedish \u201cPeople\u2019s Homes\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

Some of the original Key Workshops still make classic Malmsten designs. For example, Stolab in Sm\u00e5landsstenar, where Lilla \u00c5land and Vardags are made, and O H Sj\u00f6gren in Tran\u00e5s, where upholstered armchairs such as Rundrygg, Farmor, Hemmakv\u00e4ll and Samsas are created. Just like Josef Frank and Svenskt Tenn, Carl Malmsten represents a distinct style of interior design that lives on long after its creator has passed away.<\/p>\r\n

He had a tremendous sense of proportion and designed furniture that people would feel very much at home with \u2013 and comfortable in.<\/p>\r\n

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Ulriksdal palace, living room.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Carl Malmsten was at the forefront within Swedish crafts and furniture design, but he was just as much an energetic educator. At the time of the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, he opened his second workshop, which was also designed as a school: Olofskolan. In 942, Carl Malmsten founded the Workshop School, where pupils received \u201ca technical art education\u201d in furniture making and where \u201cthe physical and mental forces develop together\u201d. In the 1950s, the royalties from Carl Malmsten\u2019s collaboration with a number of small industries went to the Nyckelvik project. After the opening of Nyckelviksskolan on Liding\u00f6 (1955), the royalties were directed to Capellag\u00e5rden on \u00d6land (1958). In all of the schools, including the Malmsten School of Furniture on Liding\u00f6 \u2013 now an extension of Link\u00f6ping University and simply referred to as Malmstens \u2013 the basic philosophy is still that of \u201chand and mind in creative collaboration\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

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Capellag\u00e5rden<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many people have testified to Carl Malmsten\u2019s eccentric and strong-willed personality. Depending on the time of year, he went from his home in Bergshamra on the northern side of Lake Brunnsviken to the office in central Stockholm on foot, by bicycle or on skis. Driving was not his thing. Another peculiarity was that he never ate at set times, only when he was hungry. This could be difficult for those around him, especially if they wanted to invite him for dinner. Carl Malmsten was simply an awkward person with a hot temper and generous love, depending on when, where and with whom he interacted. The potter and glass designer Ingegerd R\u00e5man has told how she fell out with Carl Malmsten when she was a student at Capellag\u00e5rden. \u201cI remember how angry I was with him, but he didn\u2019t crumble. He knew what he stood for and it was wonderful to meet such a person. I learned about simplicity and tradition, the quality of materials and that things must function.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Malmsten at Capellag\u00e5rden<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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