Bruno Mathsson Center

Furniture and architecture centre around the home, workshop, and glass house of Bruno Mathsson.

The Bruno Mathsson Center is devoted to Värnamo's most famous designer, whose chairs and glass-house experiments helped define Swedish modernism. It includes his parents' home, the old furniture workshop, and a glass building connected to his ideas about light and living.

This is a quiet, specialist stop, but a rewarding one. If you care about Scandinavian furniture, it gives you the rare chance to see Mathsson's work in the town and domestic setting that shaped it.

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A story
Mathsson treated sitting as a design problem worth studying properly. His bentwood chairs look effortless, but they came from experiments with posture, light, and the Swedish craft tradition rather than from decoration.