Carl Malmsten

Carl Malmsten ( born December 7, 1888 in Stockholm; † August 13, 1972 in Öland ) was next to Bruno Mathsson and Yngve Ekström one of the most important furniture designers of Sweden.

Training

Carl Malmsten came from a very middle-class family in Stockholm. In school, he was not feeling well, but made with some effort his high school. Until 1908, he then studied at the University of Stockholm, from 1909 to 1910 he had a job as a carpenter's apprentice, and from 1911 to 1916, he practiced in various architectural offices.

Work and life

In 1916 he started his own studio in Stockholm and began to work as a freelance furniture and interior designer. In the same year he won first and second prize for the furnishing of the under construction Stockholm Stadshus.

Carl Malmsten was a strong supporter of the Swedish Classicism of the 1920s, also called Swedish grace. The functionalism that made ​​his entry in 1930 in Sweden, he was extremely critical. In connection with the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 he was its strongest critics. In a letter to the exhibition management, he described the functionalism as a " ... slätstruken, importerad, anti- traditional style, Mekaniskt torr och grundat på falsk saklighet ... " (roughly, " ... smooth, imported, anti- traditional style, mechanically dry, and founded on a false objectivity ... " ).

As Malmstens furniture arrived for mass production in the 1950s on the market, they had their breakthrough also in the wider population. 1969, at the age of 80, he had his last major exhibition at Liljewalchs konsthall in Stockholm.

Carl Malmsten has also published several books, including Skönhet och trevnad i hemmet (1924 ), Mittens rike (1949) and Bo i ro (1958 )

School Projects

Carl Malmsten had an educational slant and therefore wished that his design philosophy should be passed in a school project future generations of furniture designers. One of his educational principles was that the innate creative desire of the child should be encouraged as early as the first years of school to wear for a lifetime fruit can. Malmstens efforts resulted in 1930 in the Carl Malmstens Verkstadsskola in Stockholm and in 1957 he started the Capellagården in Vickleby on Öland. In 2000, the Centrum för Träteknik & Design ( CTD) was formed in Linköping and Stockholm.

Orders

Literature and sources

  • Carl Malmsten - hel och halls Eric Wenner Holm, Stockholm Bonnier 1969
  • Carl Malmsten - Arkitekten och människan Ivan Näslund, Carl Malmstens Verkstadsskola 1930 - 1980, catalog, Stockholm 1980
  • Inspiration och Förnyelse - Carl Malmsten 100 år, Stockholm Wiken 1988
  • Carl Malmsten Anna Greta Wahlberg, Stockholm Signum 1988
  • " Carl Malmsten 1888-1972 life - teaching - work", Jörg Uitz, Habilitation thesis, TU Graz, 1998
  • Skandinavisk Design, Taschen 2002
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