Table
Catalogue
- Year
- 1952
- Dimensions
- 25 1/2 x 56 x 28" (64.8 x 142.2 x 71.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern 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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1944 · Molded beech plywood and hemp webbing
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1936 · Solid birch, laminated birch, plywood, and hemp webbing
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1936 · Beech, canvas, brass, birch, and ash
Record
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- Bruno Mathsson
- Year
- 1952
- Dimensions
- 25 1/2 x 56 x 28" (64.8 x 142.2 x 71.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1952-M001500
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified