One of the most renowned furniture designers of his time was Bruno Mathsson.  Bruno Mathsson was born in Varnamo in the year 1907 and here the man was born into a family of people who had worked with wood for many years.  It is said that because of this Bruno Mathsson became quiet the designer of home furniture(hem möbler).  His father actually not only worked with wood but he was a prominent cabinet maker in their village.  This trade of cabinet making and home furniture (hem möbler) making had been going on in their family for four generations before his father making Bruno Mathsson a six generation home furniture (hem möbler) maker.  His entire childhood was spent working around wood and wood work shops so that the tools of the trade became second nature to him.  Bruno  Mathsson was around the tools of his home furniture (hem möbler) making trade the way that any other child would be around a playground.

Not only was he even talented as a child but Bruno Mathsson also was thirsty for knowledge of many sorts. He was completely fascinated with not just the home furniture (hem möbler) making but also the technical aspect of the home furniture (hem möbler) making.  As a teen he began to find any books that he could on the subject and flooded his brain with the knowledge that it so craved.  By borrowing many books from museums and other designers he would also start to create some friendships that would last a lifetime.

When designing home furniture (hem möbler) later on he would discover that the conventional chair did absolutely nothing for him and so he began to design chairs (stol) that would not use springs or cushions but instead use the streamlined designs and also designs that could be moved and adjusted for comfort.  These chairs (stol) were so advanced for the time that Bruno Mathsson actually kept them in storage for a while until he had made a name for himself as a home furniture (hem möbler) designer.  After he won an award the Grand Prix design award actually in 1937 at the Paris Expo he felt a little more comfortable taking out his hidden designs.

One of Bruno Mathsson’s most famous designs of home furniture (hem möbler) would have to be the Pernilla chair (stol). Not only did Bruno Mathsson design chairs (stol) but also tables (bord).  One of his most famous tables (bord) would be the Fallbord table.  This table (bord) can be folded and unfolded to make a table of many varying sizes. It is the perfect design for a table (bord) for small spaces and the perfect table (bord) for large spaces and any size in between. This table (bord) was designed in the year 1935 and is still today produced and is one of the most popular pieces of home furniture (hem möbler) that comes from the brilliant mind of Bruno Mathsson.

Bruno Mathsson not only designed and built many beautiful pieces of home furniture (hem möbler) but also he created pieces of home furniture that would withstand time and their designs are just as popular in today’s world as they were when they were created seventy years ago.  Bruno Mathsson was able to keep his home furniture simple in design and beautiful all at the same time.  This man was a wonder to see work and was dedicated to the design and mechanics of how his home furniture worked. It is said that at one time he actually sat in the snow to see the shape that his body left as an impression in the snow so he could better understand his furniture.  Bruno Mahsson died in 1988.