Carl Malmsten
Carl Malmsten (born December 7, 1888 in Stockholm , † August 13, 1972 in Öland ) was one of Sweden's most important furniture designers alongside Bruno Mathsson and Yngve Ekström .
education
Carl Malmsten came from an upper-class Stockholm family. He did not feel at home in school, but with a certain effort he graduated from high school. Until 1908 he studied at the University of Stockholm, from 1909 to 1910 he was employed 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 prizes for furnishing the Stockholm Stadshus, which was under construction .
Carl Malmsten was a strong believer in Swedish classicism of the 1920s, also known as Swedish grace . He was extremely critical of functionalism , which found its way into Sweden around 1930. In connection with the Stockholm exhibition in 1930 he was its strongest critic. In a letter to the exhibition management, he described functionalism as a "... slätstruken, importerad, anti-traditional style, mekaniskt torr och grundat på falsk saklighet ..." (roughly "... smoothed, imported, anti-traditional style, mechanically dry and based on false objectivity ..." ).
When Malmstens furniture came onto the market for series production in the 1950s, it also had its breakthrough among the wider population. In 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 a pedagogical inclination and therefore wanted his design philosophy to be passed on to future generations of furniture designers in a school project. One of his basic pedagogical principles was that the child's innate creativity should be encouraged in the first years of school in order to be able to bear fruit for a lifetime. Malmstens efforts resulted in the Carl Malmstens Verkstadsskola in Stockholm in 1930 and in 1957 he started Capellagården in Vickleby on Öland. In 2000 the Centrum för Träteknik & Design (CTD) was established in Linköping and Stockholm.
assignments
- 1916 Establishment of the Stockholm Stadshus
- 1923 Furnishing of the large living room in Ulriksdal Castle
- 1925 Establishment of the Stockholm Concert Hall
- 1927 Establishment of the Tändsticksbolagets palats (match palace), Stockholm
- 1930 Established in Waldorf-Astoria , New York
- 1934 Establishment in the House of the League of Nations in Geneva
- 1939 participant in the world exhibition in New York
Literature and Sources
- Carl Malmsten - hel och hållen Eric Wennerholm, Stockholm Bonniers 1969
- Carl Malmsten - Arkitekten and Iwan 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, Graz University of Technology, 1998
- Skandinavisk Design , Taschen GmbH 2002
Web links
- Carl Malmsten - Center for Träteknik och Design , Linköpings University
- Carl Malmstens furniture
- Carl Malmstens facility
- About Carl Malmsten
- Carl Malmstens archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malmsten, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Architect and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1972 |
| Place of death | Öland , Sweden |