LISA LARSON - beloved designer

Lisa Larson in her studio. Photo: Lars Gustafssin

We are delighted to present an extensive collection of items by the ever-popular and much-publicised designer Lisa Larson. She celebrated her 85th birthday on 9 September and remains highly active, continuing to come up with new ideas and designs.

Lisa Larson made her debut as a designer at Gustavsberg’s porcelain factory in 1954 and was soon attracting attention with her figurines and stoneware series in playful, sturdy designs, often hand-painted, sometimes cast and sometimes thrown and shaped by hand.

Her major breakthrough came with the ‘ABC Girls’ series from 1958; figurines that were initially intended as bookends but that turned out to be too light unless filled with sand. The critics and design elite at the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design turned their noses up at, in their eyes, the banal and childish design, but the general public fell in love with her figures: ‘Pippi’, the ‘Big and Little Zoo’, ‘Turn of the Century’, ‘Children of the World’, and so it has continued. Today her designs are adored and collected all over the world, and in Japan in recent years they have arranged several exhibitions of her newly-produced stoneware, made by Konststudion in Gustavsberg. Come and have a browse among a vast collection of personally and uniquely designed items by one of the most significant designers of the post-war period. Which will be your particular favourite?

The items will be on display at Västberga Allé 3 in Stockholm Mon – Fri: 10am – 7pm, Sat: 11am – 3pm.
Questions? Contact: David Brolin