Meaning and functionality describe Mats’ furniture designs. Mats Theselius was a Swedish designer born in 1956 in Stockholm. His schooling had deep roots in designs and architecture from an early age. He studied industrial and architectural designs at the Industriel School. He completed his training in 1984, and became a lecturer at the University of Gothenburg in the School of Crafts and Design.
Mats Theselius’ works had abstract creations that transformed simple artefacts into wonderful and endowed pieces of art. In 1985, Mats came up with his first creation known as the Algskinnsfatoljen, which later became a hit design in Sweden and even all over the world. This furniture design was simple and beautiful. It was in the form of a cylindrical club that was made of steel and developed exclusively for comfort and prestige.
Mats also developed a magnificent bookshelf that has been widely celebrated till today. This creation was developed in 1988 and had the enormous capacity to hold about twenty five pieces of magazines. This to the Swedish marked the commencement of superb designs in their country’s history.
He then came up with other elegant designs such as El Rey, Rex and Embassy that were kept at the Embassy of Sweden because of their magnificent qualities. His furniture has been extensively acclaimed throughout Sweden since the 1990s. Mats Theselius also developed contemporary furniture such as Kudarat, Vikskarm and Kallemo in I989. His Viskarm furniture is currently used throughout the globe. The uniqueness within Viskarm lies in its beautiful, attractive and glossy surface that mystifies reality that is never found in physical objects. Most of Mats’ works comes with some feeling of present existence and a real touch of life.
In the fall of 2000, Mats traveled the southern parts of the United States in order to study the divergent art of America. He had a goal of creating designs that were western in themselves. This study also enabled him to realize the relationship between designs and the natural environment. He later designed boots, having been aided by a Texan who was skilled in the craft. He then continued and developed an armchair that was unique in its characteristics and was supposed to be a production of the craftsmen in Texas. Coincidentally, this happened at a period when the president visited Gothenburg and welcomed visitors who were living in the west. It was at this time that Mats’ popularity began. Established companies were informed of his cooperation between Sweden and America and forged a relationship with him.
Theselius furniture designs have been more than elegant. The belief behind these designs is that any form of beauty brings everlasting beauty. Beauty, as Mats says, is anything possible to man and has the capacity to entice the human eye. All the designs that were created by Mats had an exceptional quest to embrace modernity and recent lifestyles. His furniture designs were ramified into two; utility, and non utility furniture. All these make Mats a formidable architect of contemporary furniture designs.
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