Stig Lindberg

While working with bathtub enamels, Stig Lindberg happened to see a colour sample, a piece of metal that had gone in and out of the oven. It struck him that one could work purely artistically with the material. In 1949, he created his first enamel painting on steel plate. At the Triennale in Milan in 1951, Stig Lindberg presented modern enamel painting in an international context for the first time. Thereafter, he collaborated with NK's furniture workshop in Nyköping to produce tables with enamel tops. The enamel offered a colour palette of up to seven thousand shades after firing in the oven for 5-6 minutes. Several artists used the technique, including Egon Möller-Nielsen, Algot Törneman, and Endre Nemes. The table bases were available in several different designs. They were often dated underneath along with NK's stamp.