Café de Paris Table — Mats Theselius for Källemo

Café de Paris by Mats Theselius

Featuring a sand-cast brass foot, a brass-treated column, and a turned wheel with fine linear knurling.

The height adjustment recalls the precision of a microphone stand.

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Mats Theselius and Källemo

Mats Theselius studied interior architecture at Konstfack in Stockholm, graduating in 1984. His collaboration with Källemo, the Swedish furniture manufacturer based in Värnamo, began in 1985 and has continued uninterrupted for four decades — one of the most sustained designer-manufacturer relationships in Swedish design.

The partnership first attracted wide attention in 1990 when Theselius presented a collection at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, including the Elk-skin armchair — a cylindrical construction of etched iron plates and elk leather, originally designed in 1985 and produced in a limited edition of 360. The piece set the tone for a body of work defined by unconventional materials, craft precision, and limited production runs. Subsequent pieces — including Rex, Bruno, National Geographic, and the stainless steel Atlas lamp — reinforced Theselius’s position as a designer working at the boundary between furniture and sculpture.

His work is held in the collections of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, the Designmuseum Denmark in Copenhagen, and the National Museum in Oslo, among others. In 1997 he received the Bruno Mathsson Prize and the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize. He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 and received the Prince Eugen Medal in 2018.

Café de Paris continues Theselius’s long engagement with materials that carry their own history — brass, steel, and the language of industrial precision applied to domestic objects.

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