835. OLLE ANDERSON. “Confetti”, cabinet, prototype, leg stand in beech, top in painted mdf, cabinets and drawers.

Signed Olle Anderson 1981 2 pieces, height 166, 84 x 33,5 cm.
“Art furniture - the product of the 80s”, read one of the headlines in Dagens Nyheter on May 14, 1981. In connection with this, the magazine drew attention to the fact that Olle Anderson, who “made robust waiting room and outdoor furniture for Klaessons in Fjugesta”, had now “thrown himself away in some self-built and self-painted cabinets in sensuous and pastel colour combinations”. His new cabinet embodied the then so timely, overturning new ideals that radical designers and architects embraced as a reaction to the 1970s in their eyes too matter-of-fact, expedient principles. In Italy, these were thrown overboard with noise and booing as the Memphis group exhibited colorful furniture and lamps that looked to be composed with playful delight by elements from the mold storeroom of style history. In Sweden, this development was driven forward by Curt Lagerström and Anders Söderberg, among others. But the one who drew - by far - the most attention was Olle Anderson. For a few years his new cabinet came to the attention of every other newspaper for a decade that was, at least in part, predicted by the headline writers of Dagens Nyheter. Furniture Sweden of the 1980s would in many ways be characterised by exclusive interiors with expensive solitaires. Few of them, however, exhibited Anderson's bubble-gum pastelly and easygoing qualities.
The auction cabinet is a prototype, built by the Klaesson furniture factory in Fjugesta and painted by Olle Anderson himself. Anderson tells us in his own words:
“The cabinet was exhibited at the Copenhagen Furniture Fair and attracted great attention as an example of the new postmodern style that was now making its inroads into design and the world of furniture.
After the Copenhagen fair, I was contacted by Horred's furniture factory, who wanted to put the cabinet into selective production. I then reduced the dimensions in relation to the prototype.“
Olle Anderon's cabinet “Confetti”, which was added in a paradigm shift, has a great symbolic value in Swedish furniture history. When it was first shown, it resonated as much in the trade press as a certain peer concrete chair, but today it is much rarer on the secondary market. The present specimen is unique and differs both in size and color from the specimens that came to be produced by Horreds Möbelfabrik.