Mattias Ljunggren was born in 1956 on the island of Gotland, Sweden. He studied interior and furniture design at Konstfack, the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, graduating in 1990 as Arkitekt SIR/MSA. He debuted as a furniture designer in 1989 with the Cobra chair, a design that would go on to define much of his career.
Furniture design
Cobra was picked up by Källemo, which produced it through the 1990s and into the 2000s, alongside other Ljunggren designs for the company between 1993 and 2003. From 1997 he has designed for Johanson Design, where his work includes the Carat chair, the Jackie bar stool, the Kennedy chair, and the Detroit and Sputnik tables. He has also designed for Skandiform. In 2014 he introduced the Karlsö chair, a design that draws on the tradition of Swedish carved chairs (snidade stolar).
Awards and recognition
Ljunggren has received Sweden’s Guldstolen (Golden Chair Award) from Sveriges Arkitekter twice — in 2002 for the Cobra chair and in 2005 for the Core chair — a rare double honour for one designer. Earlier in his career, Cobra itself received an Excellent Swedish Design award in 1991, with further Excellent Swedish Design recognitions following in 1998 and 2001.
Museums and teaching
His furniture is held in the collections of Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen, and Oslo’s museum of decorative art and design. Alongside his design practice, Ljunggren has taught furniture design at Beckmans College of Design and Konstfack, and has served on committees for Sveriges Arkitekter and Svensk Form’s copyright panel.
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