Category Archives: Sweden

Ingeborg Lundin was born in 1921 in Sweden and is most known for her extensive glass work at Orrefors from the 1940s up until the 1970s – her most famous work being ‘The Apple’. Her family moved to Chicago in the US when she was young but when her mother died and her father remarried,Continue reading “Ingeborg Lundin”

Elsa Gullberg, born Svensson in 1886 was a Swedish interior architect and textile designer, who pioneered the industrialisation of textile production. Gullberg grew up in a bourgeois family as the oldest child in a group of five children. She had intended to train as a doctor, but when her father went out of business andContinue reading “Elsa Gullberg”

Inga Lisa Larson, (née Alhage) was born in Härlunda, Sweden in 1931. She studied ceramics 1950–1954 at the then century old Handicraft School in Gothenburg and is today known as one of Sweden’s most beloved mid-century ceramists. Initially she wanted to study fashion, but found her love in clay. When Lisa Larson in the midContinue reading “Lisa Larson”

Karin Larsson (née Bergöö, 1859 – 1928) was a Swedish artist and designer who collaborated with her husband, Carl Larsson, and who is often considered to be the first to have laid the foundation for the Swedish design language. Karin Bergöö was born in Örebro, Sweden and early showed artistic talent. She attended the EcoleContinue reading “Karin Larsson”