Estrid Ericson and Firma Svenskt Tenn

The story behind Estrid Ericson and the early days of the company she founded in 1924 is well known to most of us. Together with Nils Fougstedt she began creating new designs in pewter, a material that had been neglected for years. She also collaborated with quite a few of the most interesting designers working in Sweden at the time, for instance, Uno Åhrén, Björn Trägårdh, Anna Petrus and Tyra Lundgren.

After a few years, the range of objects produced was broadened with furniture executed in a strict modernist or functionalist as we called it in Sweden, style with black lacquered wood highlighted with details in pewter, often with engraved decoration.

Estrid Ericson had a unique talent for composing interior designs like few others at the time.

On her travels, she made sure to bring back decorative objects such as fossils, semi-precious stones and Chinese works of art which she would use either as details on pewter objects or as part of interior decoration. These more or less unique objects are today very attracted by collectors and interior decorators and much sought after at auction.