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Bruno Mathsson

(Sweden, 1907-1988)
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Bruno Mathsson, an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.
Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
710 - 887 EUR
741 - 926 USD
Hammer price
11 000 SEK
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Bruno Mathsson
(Sweden, 1907-1988)

an easy chair, "Karin", Dux, Sweden, mid 20th century.

Brown leather, chrome plated tubular steel, marked in the textile DUX, height 75 cm, seat height ca 38 cm.

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Provenance

Torbjörn Lenskog Collection

Designer

Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988) is one of Sweden's most prominent furniture designers. Having a father who worked as a master carpenter, Mathsson learned about furniture carpentry at an early age, which he later benefited from in his profession as a designer. The "Grasshopper" chair was the first that Bruno Mathsson designed in 1931 - on behalf of Värnamo hospital. It was made of bent-glued beech with saddle girth upholstery and had an ergonomic shape. However, neither patients nor staff at the infirmary appreciated the chair. Nowadays, the "Grasshopper" is considered a design classic.


A few years later, Mathsson exhibited his furniture at a separate exhibition at the Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet in Gothenburg, and in 1937 he participated in the Paris World Fair.


Mathsson's furniture is now considered timeless design classics that combine style with comfort. Some of his most famous pieces of furniture are the armchairs "Jetson", which are produced for Dux, "Pernilla 3", and "Karin" and the table "Superellips", designed together with Piet Hein.

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