Swedish Chairs

Swedish Chairs posts cover the long Swedish furniture tradition from the eighteenth-century Gustavian period through the modernist makers of the twentieth century. Articles look at the painted Gustavian chair with its straight legs and oval back medallion, the sturdy Allmoge country chairs, the Bruno Mathsson lounge chairs of the 1930s, the Carl Malmsten craft pieces, the Bjorn Trageardh cabinetmaker tradition and the modern Bla Station and Garsnas studios. There are also notes on the difference between a real period Gustavian piece and a Stockholm reproduction shop, on the painted finishes and on identification of Swedish hallmarks.