The Bruno Mathsson Prize 40 Years

2024

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2025

2024

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The picture shows Bruno Mathsson sitting in a chair.

In 2024, it will be 40 years since the Bruno Mathsson Prize was awarded for the first time. To draw attention to this, Vandalorum is presenting an extensive exhibition in which Bruno Mathsson is shown together with 38 of the outstanding designers, interior designers and architects, from all Nordic countries, who have received the prize since it began to be awarded in 1984.

The award was established by Bruno Mathsson to recognize and support the designers who strongly contribute to the development of furniture design and other related areas of design. The pursuit of development is also the starting point for Vandalorum's exhibition, where each laureate is invited to show how this permeates their respective work. By meeting in the exhibition the designers who have been influential in the Nordic region since the 1980s until today, it can be clearly seen that this has been an expansive period in Nordic furniture design, which today, in addition to aesthetic qualities, houses an increasing awareness of technical, craft and material development as well as its environmental consequences.

Participants in the exhibition, in the order in which they have 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, which received the Bruno Mathsson Prize in 2017.

Thanks to: Nordisk Kulturfond, Clara Lachmann Foundation, Letterstedtska föreningen, 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}^Mirrors^{(2014) by Jenny Nordberg, photo: Short legs
Cabinet by Finn Ahlgren, photo: Mathilda Werngren}^Clouds^{portable room (2003) by Monica Förster for Offecct, © Offecct}^Famna^{sofa and stool (2020) by TAF for Svenskt Tenn, photo: Henrik Lundell}
^Sfera^{chair (2004) by Claesson Koivisto Rune}^Cinderella^{table (2023) by Anna Kraitz for Design House Stockholm, © Design House Stockholm}^Chicago^{roller table (1999) by Gunilla Allard for Lammhults}^{CMA Clay}^{porcelain series (2021) by Cecilie Manz for 1616/Arita Japan, photo: Jeppe Sørensen}^{Hommage à Sigurd Lewerentz}^{armchair (2012) by Mats Theselius for Källemo, photo: Johann Bergenholtz}