VIDAR MALMSTEN. Wall clock, “Vidar”, designed by Vidar Malmsten, 1955, made by master carpenter Göte Karlsson in 1981, painted by Liselotte Malmsten, 1982.

Height approx. 135 cm

Pendulum and 2 solders included.

History: Vidar Malmsten (1924—1969) was the only one of Siv and Carl Malmsten's five children to follow in his father's footsteps. As a furniture designer, interior designer and craftsman. In 1947 he met Liselotte Malmsten-Bourcart (1922—2021) who had come to Sweden from Switzerland to learn more about Scandinavian interior design ideals. The young couple, Liselotte and Vidar, started a family, had four children and in their home in Bergshamra they had an ongoing conversation about interior design, colour and form. When the children got to bed, they drew and sketched on assignments that Vidar had brought home from the office, Carl Malmsten's architect's office, or that they had received together.

Alongside a series of interiors — for Djursholm Castle, Solbergahemmet in Järna, Ulriksdals Wärdshus, Sundbyberg Church, the student residence Sörgården at Capellagården — executed on his own or together with his father, Vidar designed furniture, always with “very human and tranquil charm in design and function”, as the critic and designer Lena Larsson wrote in a memoir ext. Some are still in production, like the stackable chair Kaj. Liselotte was a trained interior designer, but it was mainly in textiles that her artistry developed. For many years she worked with designing furniture fabrics, curtains, carpets and colouring and artistically painting furniture for Carl Malmsten AB. It was she who developed most of the furniture fabrics that many still associate today with the typical Malmstone furniture. And in most of Vidar's interiors, Liselotte's fabrics and curtains were used.