Svante Schöblom

Svante Schöblom (* 1942 ) is a Swedish furniture designer and representative of Scandinavian design .

Life

Schöblom studied in the 1960 years at the Stockholm School of Art Konstfack among other industrial art, furniture and interior design . He then worked as a designer and product developer for the Overman furniture company in Tranås , which was known for the use of innovative materials and manufacturing methods.

For them, Schöblom designed, among other things, seating furniture with a lounge chair character in the style of the mid-century modern . Many of his other works consisted of a substructure (often made of thin chrome-plated metal components) and an overlying, single-colored seat made of injection molding , which could be flexible and in many cases also stackable (such as the Snille chair designed for IKEA ). Upholstered seats were often in a color that contrasted with the plastic body of the chair. In the 1970s , designs without a metal substructure were aimed specifically at teenagers with striking colors and were sold worldwide.

literature

• Architecture. Volume 92, Stockholms byggnadsförening, Svenska teknologföreningen. AB Byggmästarens Förlag, 1992, p. 86.
• Forum närmiljö. Issues 1-4, Svenska Inredningsarkitekters Riksförbund SIR, 1985, pp. 42, 47, 53.
• Sumlen. Samfundet för visforskning, Svenskt visarkiv, 1987, p. 192.
• MD. Furniture interior design. Volume 27, Konradin-Verlag Robert Kohlhammer, 1981, p. XXXIX.
• Design from Scandinavia. Vol. 7-8, World Pictures, p. 114.
• Shape. Volume 78.Svenska slöjdföreningen, Föreningen Svensk form, 1982, p. 86.

Web links

• Svante Schöblom. In: offi.com, with picture.
• Images from designs by Svante Schöbloms / Overman. In: vadärdenvärd.se
• Objects from May 3, 2018. In: Bares für Rares , ZDF .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Svenskt Tenn - överklassens IKEA . Barbebys from June 10, 2016.
   IKEA: s range - utdrag ur. In: drangahuset.se