Märta Måås-Fjetterström
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A carpet, 'Ängarna', knotted pile, ca 383 x 280 cm, signed AB MMF
Designed in 1928 for m/s Kungsholm, woven after 1941.
Literature
Compare with Märta Måås-Fjetterström och verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1951, plate page 17; Mattor och vävnader - Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson, Marianne Richter, Ann-Mari Forsberg, Båstad 1956, plate page 10; ICA bokförlag: Antikt - Bukowskis experter berättar, Västerås/Spanien 2006, colour plate page 176; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 113; Skrifter från Kungl. Husgerådskammare 20, Nisser-Dalman, Margareta, Stockholm 2019, No. 27, page 58; Angelica Persson, Ehrling Braghfors, Ulrik Swedrup: Se på mattorna - det är jag, 100 år av textil konst - sedan 1919, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Båstad/Mölndal 2019, text and colour plates pages 100-101.
More information
In 1928, the Swedish American Line vessel M/S Kungsholm was to be fitted out as a floating pavilion showcasing the superiority of the Swedish 1920s classicism. The architect Carl Bergsten gathered the leading designers of the day to furnish the ship, among them Märta Måås-Fjetterström along with others such as Carl Malmsten, Elsa Gullberg, Oscar Nilsson, and Simon Gate. Märta Måås-Fjetterström walked through the first-class lounge during her trip to New York in 1928. What could a rug convey on a ship? What was missing on a magnificent sea? Grass, meadows, and flowers from the gardens of childhood. By her next trip, there lay, in the first-class lounge, a large rug by Måås-Fjetterström named "The Meadows".