Bruno Mathsson’s prize celebrates 40 years with extensive exhibition @ Vandalorum

26 October 2024–15 June 2025

In 2024, it will be 40 years since the Bruno Mathsson Prize was awarded for the first time. To commemorate this, Vandalorum now presents an extensive exhibition where Bruno Mathsson is shown alongside 38 of the prominent designers, interior architects, and architects from all Nordic countries who have received the prize since it began in 1984. The prize was instituted by furniture designer and architect Bruno Mathsson to recognize and support those who strongly contribute to the development of furniture design and other related design areas. The pursuit of progress, to create better lives for people, was Mathsson’s driving force throughout his life. Development is also the starting point for Vandalorum’s exhibition, where each prize winner has been invited to show how this permeates their respective work. By encountering the designers who have been influential in the Nordic region since the 1980s in the exhibition, one can clearly see that this has been an expansive period in Nordic design that today, in addition to aesthetic qualities, encompasses an ever-increasing awareness of technical, craft and material development and its environmental consequences.

 

 

The Bruno Mathsson Prize is awarded annually at Vandalorum in Värnamo, Bruno Mathsson’s hometown. During the exhibition’s opening, the 2024 prize will be awarded to Fredrik Paulsen, Jenny Nordberg, and Finn Ahlgren.

Participants in the exhibition, in the order they received the Bruno Mathsson Prize: Fredrik Paulsen, Jenny Nordberg, Finn Ahlgren, Front, Pierre Sindre, Monica Förster, Chris Martin, Folkform, TAF, Shane Schneck, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Jonas Bohlin, Staffan Holm, Mika Tolvanen, Daniel Rybakken, Thomas Bernstrand, Cecilie Manz, Anna Kraitz, Louise Campbell, Ilkka Suppanen, Johannes Norlander, Anderssen & Voll, Andreas Engesvik, Anna von Schewen, Sigurður Gústafsson, Gunilla Allard, Simo Heikkilä, Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen, Mats Theselius, Åke Axelsson, Kari Virtanen

The exhibition is designed by TAF, who received the Bruno Mathsson Prize in 2017. Vandalorum is producing a comprehensive catalog for the exhibition. The catalog contains newly written texts by author and design writer Hedvig Hedqvist, design writer Charlotte Jul, and museum director Elna Svenle, as well as extensive visual material including photographs from the exhibition by photographer Patrik Lindell. The catalog is designed by Stefan Engblom and printed in Swedish and English.

 

 

Thanks to: Nordic Culture Fund, Clara Lachmann Foundation, Letterstedt Association, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation

Photos: Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988) drawing in Frösakull, © Bruno Mathsson International Spiral Table and Road Block Chair by Fredrik Paulsen, photo: Sanna Lindström Mirror by Jenny Nordberg, photo: Korta ben Cabinet by Finn Ahlgren, photo: Mathilda Werngren. Other pictures: Bruno Mathsson © Bruno Mathsson International.

 

 

 

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