Eva-chairs of Bruno Mathsson continues to please

When it comes to interior design has been practically all heard of the Swedish and Scandinavian schools and the pervasive style called Swedish Modern, or sometimes Swedish modernism. One of the leading names was the late Bruno Mathsson. He was born in 1907 into a family of carpenters in Värnamo in Sweden and lived until 1988.

Although he was a student of the craft tradition in his country, lighting design went far beyond that and used the shapes and styles that reflected the living things, that grasshoppers and humans. He wanted his
furniture would be practical and above all comfortable, but his real genius was that at the same time make it extremely beautiful.

His first big chair was "Grasshopper", which initially was a failure 1931st It would later become a high price. Stolen Eve was created first in 1934 was significantly faster acceptance by the public and was also praised by critics almost Universal furniture. There is also a högryggad model which is less typical of his chairs.

Stolen Eva has the typical lighting design clean lines and curves, and a woven surface. The urpsprungliga chair was probably the beech trees, but many wood types were used over time and saddle flock fabric could be made of virtually anything. They made during wartime were made of what material was available for the moment, from paper to hemp.

Stolen Eve are still in production as a classic, and old and new states a hefty price tag, but virtually everyone who owns a think it is worth the price. Its surface can be individually adapted to any color schemes and situations, and choices of wood is different. Mathsson made chairs until the end of his life in 1988, and continued to make simple but attractive chairs and renewed them to suit different ages.

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