This collection of modern Swedish ceramics is of a highly unusual nature. While it reflects the collector’s subjective preferences—featuring a strikingly large selection of idiosyncratic pieces—it also offers a cross-section of Swedish art ceramics spanning virtually the entire 20th century. Many major names are represented here, yet often through objects rarely seen or works that are atypical for the artist in question. Naturally, the collection showcases pieces from all the leading factories, ranging from Rörstrand and Gustavsberg to Upsala-Ekeby, S:t Eriks, and Nittsjö.
The collector himself has described the collection as “actually quite hopeless.” He suggests that the only common thread—aside from the context of 20th-century Sweden—has been his own sense of wonder at “all the remarkable things one can create from a lump of clay.”
