
Catalogue
- Year
- 1980
- Medium
- Chair
- Collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- 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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Chaise Longue: "Pernilla"
1960 · Bent plywood or beechwood, with hemp webbing
Table
1952 · Teak plywood top and beech supports
Pernilla 1 Easy Chair (T105)
1944 · Molded beech plywood and hemp webbing
Folding Table on Casters (model T702)
1944 · Lacquered birch, ash, and nickel-plated steel
Lounge chair with reading stand
1936 · Beech, canvas, brass, birch, and ash
Chaise Longue
1936 · Solid birch, laminated birch, plywood, and hemp webbing
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Bruno Mathsson
- Year
- 1980
- Medium
- Chair
- Watts ID
- WW-1980-299397
Source
- Collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Source
- vam
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





