"Pernilla" Footrest
Gift of Lord & Taylor, 1982
Catalogue
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- 16 × 20 × 27 in. (40.6 × 50.8 × 68.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Bruno Mathsson
Artist
Bruno Mathsson was a Swedish furniture designer and architect whose molded plywood and laminated wood forms defined Scandinavian modernism in the postwar era. Working primarily in the 1940s and onward, he created organic, flowing furniture pieces that prioritized comfort and craft over geometric severity. His bent-wood chairs and tables, produced through innovative lamination techniques, became exemplars of functionalist design that balanced industrial production with handmade sensibility.
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Kerstin
1980 · Chair
Chaise Longue: "Pernilla"
1960 · Bent plywood or beechwood, with hemp webbing
Table
1952 · Teak plywood top and beech supports
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1944 · Lacquered birch, ash, and nickel-plated steel
Pernilla 1 Easy Chair (T105)
1944 · Molded beech plywood and hemp webbing
Chaise Longue
1936 · Solid birch, laminated birch, plywood, and hemp webbing
Record
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- Bruno Mathsson
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- 16 × 20 × 27 in. (40.6 × 50.8 × 68.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1941-157373
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified