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With a father who was a fourth-generation master joiner, Mathsson's vocation was perhaps preordained. But after learning the joiner's craft in his home town of Värnamo, Sweden, he soon developed a fascination with the possibilities offered by using new wood technology in making furniture. Mathsson immersed himself in design literature from the Röhsska Arts and Craft Museum in Gothenburg, and emerged, according to Håkan Sjöman, chairman of the Mathsson Group and the Mathsson Fund, as "one of the most celebrated interpreters of the functionalistic school of ideas...and one of the greatest designers in the world ever."
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The Art of Form and Function
When one of Bruno Mathsson's early chairs was put in the reception area of a Swedish thought it was so ugly that it was dumped in the attic. T...
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