Svenskt Tenn
| Svenskt Tenn | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Aktiebolag (AB) |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat | Stockholm , Sweden |
| management | Maria Veerasamy, Johan Wall ( managing director ) and ( chairman ) |
| Number of employees | 76 |
| sales | SEK 27.5 million (2018) |
| Branch | Furniture manufacturing |
| Website | www.svenskttenn.se |
| Status: 2018 | |
Svenskt Tenn (Swedish: Swedish Pewter ) is one of the most famous and important Swedish design companies. It has been supplier to the royal court since 1928 and a subsidiary of the Kjell och Märta Beijer Foundation since 1975 . In 2015 the company had a turnover of around 26 million kroner and has 70 employees. The sales profit is donated exclusively to research projects in the fields of sustainability, genetics, biomedicine and pharmacy.
history
1924-1999
The company was founded in 1924 by the Swedish textile artist and art teacher Estrid Ericson , together with Nils Fougstedt , her colleague at the interior design company Wikman & Wiklund . The inheritance of Ericson's father served as start-up capital.
At first only items made of tin were sold. In its first year, the company was awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1925. The traveling exhibition “Contemporary Swedish Decorative Arts” in the USA at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, which was later shown in Chicago and Detroit, brought further success . As a result of the success, the business moved from Smålandsgatan to a larger shop on Strandvägen , where the company still resides today. From 1930 the range was expanded and one began to sell furnishings and furniture. As one of the early representatives of functionalism, Ericson recruited the architects Uno Åhrén , Björn Trädgårdh and Robert Hult for commissions. The Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank worked closely with the company from 1934 and became one of its most renowned designers after moving from Vienna to Stockholm with his Swedish wife Anna. His name is inextricably linked to the company name in the history of Swedish design.
With their strong contrasts, colors and prints, Svenskt Tenn's exhibition rooms at the world exhibitions in Paris in 1937 and in New York in 1939 set a clear contrast to the taste ideals customary at the time. Frank and Ericson received a lot of attention and were quickly associated with the term “ Swedish Modern ”.
Over time, prominent customers could be won: Count Sigvard Oskar Bernadotte - son of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden , who was known as the "Art Prince" at the Swedish court because he studied at the art college - in 1932 redesigned his residence at Svenskt Tenn commissioned. The strict, minimalist room in black, white and dark blue was a sensation among designers, but was received with irritation at the Swedish court. Ericson and Frank also set up the house of curator Anne Hedmark - Annes Hus - on the grounds of the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles in Millesgården .
During the Second World War , Frank fled into exile again, this time to Manhattan , where he designed a variety of new patterns between 1941 and 1946. Prinz Eugen was enthusiastic about the new designs and felt that Frank had now surpassed his role model, the designer William Morris .
After Frank died in 1967, Ericson continued to run the company until 1975. At the age of 81, she sold it to the Kjell och Märta Beijer Foundation , which awards research grants in the fields of ecology , medicine and preserving the Swedish tradition of interior decoration and design. In 1979, Ann Wall took over the management and transformed the company into a profitable business by modernizing the range, administration and organizational structures. Collaborations with selected designers and design schools have been established.
1999 - today
In 1999, the Kjell och Märta Beijer Foundation established the Ann Wall Design Prize as part of the new business concept "to preserve the spirit of Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank in a modern form." Since the Beijer Foundation has made it its mission to create the Swedish To promote interior design culture and to preserve the legacy of Frank and Ericson, she acquired the Villa Carlsten designed by Frank in Falsterbo in Skåne in southern Sweden in 2015 .
Nowadays, 80 percent of the range is self-designed according to their own statements. When Frank died, he left around 2000 furniture sketches and 160 textile samples. In 2009, Prince Carl Philip made his debut with a silver cutlery collection at Svenskt Tenn. In the following year he presented a stove fire protection designed by him. In 2011 the shops were rebuilt and expanded and a temporary branch was opened in the Astoria cinema on Nybrogatan. After further renovation work, the office space is now in the Garrisonen building ensemble on Karlavägen .
In Sweden, Svenskt Tenn's aesthetic is now established across the country and is considered a common interior design style for the upper class . The design, mainly created by Frank, has had a decisive influence on Swedish design in the areas of textiles, carpets, tableware and furniture. This influence continues today in the internationally known Swedish design, where traces of the predecessor can be seen. At the same time, items of all kinds designed by Josef Frank will continue to be offered for sale.
The Apple -Designer Marc Newson is an avowed Frank fan. Much of Frank's furniture is now also in Sweden's diplomatic missions abroad , including the Swedish embassy in Algiers and the consulate general in New York .
In recent years, Frank and Ericson's artistic legacy has been exhibited at exhibitions at Sven-Harry's Art Museum in Stockholm, at ArkDes - the Swedish center for architecture and design - as well as at the MAK in Vienna and the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
The first copies of Frank and Ericson's designs are now fetching top prices at auctions and are also in the collections of MoMa and the National Museum in Stockholm.
Craft
Inspired by the British arts and crafts designer William Morris, Ericson particularly appreciates handcraft . A large part of the production is still made in the same workshops in Småland and Sörmland as it was in the 1950s. The glass is made in the Reijmyre smelters in Östergötland , among others . Fabrics are made from 100% cotton or linen. The tin workshops are located in West Götaland .
literature
- Marlene Ott-Wodni: Josef Frank 1885-1967. Interior design and furniture design. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79647-3
Web links
- Svenskt Tenn - Homepage
- Exhibition in the Röhsska Museum June 14th - November 5th 2006 (Swedish)
- Estrid Ericsons Foundation (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ratsit: Svenskt Tenn Aktiebolag , accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Stephen Whitlock: Now Sipping | Svenskt Tenn Tea Salon , New York Times February 6, 2012, accessed March 29, 2017
- ↑ the company's website: Tekanna myrtles , accessed on April 10, 2017
- ↑ a b c d Company website: Svenskt Tenn , accessed August 25, 2017
- ↑ Klassiska konditori Valand går i graven. October 2, 2018, accessed December 2, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ Birgitta Rubin: Estrid Ericson på Sven-Harrys, Stockholm , in Dagens Nyheter of November 3, 2014
- ^ Christopher Long : Josef Frank: Life and Work. University of Chicago Press 2002, p. 299.
- ↑ a b Company website: A World Of Magical Interiors , accessed August 25, 2017
- ↑ a b Company website: History , accessed August 25, 2017
- ↑ Jonathan Woodham : A Dictionary of Modern Design , Oxford University Press 2004
- ↑ a b website of the company: Josef Frank , accessed on August 25, 2017
- ↑ Millesgården : Annes hus , accessed March 29, 2017
- ↑ Villa Carlsten ska bevaras för eftervärlden , in Sydsvenskan from July 14, 2015, accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Beijerstiftelsen: Svenskt Tenn , accessed on 29 March 2017
- ↑ Press release of the Swedish royal family: CPB 2091 - ett svenskt silverbestick med internationell karaktär , accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Press release of the Swedish royal family: Prins Carl Philip lanserar eldskärm , accessed on March 29, 2017
- ^ Dan Gordan: Svenskt Tenn på bio , accessed April 9, 2017
- ↑ Pontus Silfverstolpe: Svenskt Tenn - överklassens IKEA , blog entry on Barnebys.se from June 10, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Karin Bojs: Helt rätt för fint fol in Dagens Nyheter of March 29, 1996, accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Hanna Hellquist: Vi plockade bort allt som var personligt , in Dagens Nyheter from April 1, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Catherine Hong: A Look Back at the Fanciful Fabrics of Josef Frank , in Architectural Digest on December 14, 2016, accessed on August 25, 2017.
- ↑ Celebrating Josef Frank , in Vogue on February 12, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017.
- ↑ Swedish royal family : HM Konungens tal vid statsbanketten i Vienna, November 20, 2007 , accessed on August 25, 2017.
- ^ Statens fastighetsverk : New York, USA, the Consulate General , accessed April 10, 2017.
- ^ Statens fastighetsverk : The Swedish Embassy compound in Algiers, Algeria , accessed on August 25, 2017.
- ↑ Press release: International Scramble for Swedish 20th Century Design ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bukowskis.com , accessed August 25, 2017
- ^ MoMa archive: Josef Frank , accessed on March 29, 2017
- ^ Archives of the National Museum: Josef Frank , accessed on August 25, 2017
