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vii. manufacturing industries.
by Ferdinand Boberg, whose gifted hand in this branch, as in all other
departments, of industrial work, produces elegant compositions of
unmis-takeably original individuality. The painter Alf Wallander has already
been mentioned as a cabinet-making artist in connection with his textile
work. It should be especially pointed out that the demand for modern,
independent forms has given rise to a great number of prominent
specialists in this branch of industrial art — real "furniture-architects", who
devote themselves exclusively to designing furniture. Among the foremost
of these may be mentioned David Blomberg, Ragnar Östman, Isidor
Hörlin, A. tf ordenborg, and A. Elisson. All these architects and
furniture-architects work for the most part for the large "furniture-firms" in
Stockholm and in some provincial towns, which carry on furniture-manufacture
on a large scale, such as the Nordiska Kompaniet, Myrstedi & Stern, Karl
Johansson, etc., of Stockholm, Selander & Söner, of Gothenburg, Axel
Beckman, of Norrköping, etc. They also work for the many skilful
cabi-net-makers who carry on their trade as a handicraft.
Swedish ceramic manufacture, which has its principal representatives
in the two great china-factories of Rörstrand (founded 1727) and
Gustavsberg (founded 1827), has, in our own days, attained a hitherto
unapproa-ched degree of development. Rörstrand, with its feldspar porcelain and
its "under-glaze painting", has produced decorative objects,
table-servi-ces, etc., of great artistic merit, composed, for the most part, by Alf
Wallander, aided by a staff of other excellent and well-schooled artists.
Gustavsberg received a powerful artistic impulse under the direction of the
painter Gunnar Wennerberg, whose faince-works in sgraffiati-decoration
and crockery-ware with barbotine-colouring — the latter work continued
in a specially successful manner by Bealci Mårtensson, even after both
these artists had left the factory — form the finest production of the works,
from an artistic point of view.
During the last few years, too, the manufacture of earthenware of
artistic design and execution has sprung up in different parts of the country.
The chief producer among these artistic potters is Tage Zickerman,
Witt-sjö, with his admirable designs and shapes and his varying glazings.
Among other producers of such potte^, may be mentioned Hilma Persson,
Arvika, Anders and Bess Wissler, Mariefred, and the Uppsala-Ekeby
Aktiebolag, Uppsala, while the old Höganäs Works, with sometimes very
successful results, have also turned their attention to the artistic side of
earthenware-manufacture.
Artistic glass-manufacture is carried on chiefly by the two large
glass-factories of Kosta and Rejmyre. Specially deserving of mention
are the beautiful decorative objects in sculptured- or cameo-glass, for
which, at first, Gunnar Wennerberg designed the models, this artist being
succeeded by Alf Wallander, who has also made designs for the
crystal-glass ware.
Goldsmiths’art is carried on by only few firms, but these carry on the
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