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Gärsnäs to launch Madonna at the 2015 Stockholm Furniture Fair
Gärsnäs will be launching the Madonna chair and armchair, designed by David Ericsson, at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2015.
Madonna is a light-weight beech chair of slender dimensions, inspired partly by the Italian Chiavari chair and the classic Swedish step stool. In David Ericsson’s design, the two are brought together in a perfect harmony of stability and fragility.
Gärsnäs’ furniture production is founded on craftsmanship and tradition, centring mainly round quality furniture of wood. Production takes place in our own factory in the village of Gärsnäs, in the Österlen region of Skåne, Sweden. While adamantly refusing to compromise on quality, we are strong believers in renewal, and David Ericsson’s Madonna is fully in keeping with the Gärsnäs philosophy of subtle, handcrafted details making the product complete.
The thinner the input materials, the trickier furniture fabrication becomes. Stability and real durability demand high precision and tight joins. Gärsnäs picked up the gauntlet and is now overjoyed at being able to present an aesthetically and qualitatively durable chair worthy of a Madonna.
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Madonna’s background has to do with the Danish castle of Christiansborg, which was the scene last year of an invited competition for a new chair to be used on banqueting occasions there. The pre-existing stock of Chiavari chairs, the model popularly known as “the gold chair”, was showing signs of wear and tear. Several entries were received, but none of them led to a commission. At this point it struck David Ericsson that if the great designer Hans J. Wegner had still been alive, he would unquestionably have come up with something.
Conjointly with its big Hans J. Wegner centenary exhibition last year, the Art Museum of South Jutland, located in Tønder, Denmark, invited one designer from each of the Nordic countries to represent our own time in designing an article of furniture. Sweden was represented by Ericsson, who designed the “new” official chair for Danish state banquets,, naming it Madonna.
Since graduating from the Carl Malmsten School in 2010, David Ericsson has alternated between the running of his own studio and a guest lectureship at the Carl Malmsten School.
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Founded in 1893, Gärsnäs is a family business with its own furniture works in the village of that name, in the Österlen region of Skåne, southern Sweden, and with a showroom in Stockholm. Quality wooden furniture has been at the centre of attention right from the start, and in the joinery works craftsmanship passes by natural succession from one generation to the next. Gärsnäs has an ongoing collaboration with many leading designers, and the bounds of possibility are stretched by the convergence of craftspeople and designers. The Gärsnäs philosophy is founded on long-termism, sustainability and the details making up the whole. www.garsnas.se
