by Ferdinand Boberg, whose gifted hand in this branch, as in all other
departments, of industrial work, produces elegant compositions of unmis-
takeably original individuality. The painter A lf Wallander has already
been mentioned as a cabinet-making artist in connection with his textile
work. It should be especially pointed out that the demand for modern,
independent forms has given rise to a great number of prominent specialists
in this branch of industrial art — real “ furniture-architects”, who
devote themselves exclusively to designing furniture. Among the foremost
of these may be mentioned David Blomberg, Bagnar Ostman, Isidor Bor-
lin, A. Nordenborg, and A. Elisson. All these architects and furniture-
architects work for the most part for the large “ furniture-firms” in Stockholm
and in some provincial towns, which carry on .furniture-manufacture
on a large scale, such as the Nordiska Kompaniet, Myrstedt & Stern, Karl
Johansson, etc., of Stockholm, Selander & Souer, of Gothenburg, Axel
Beckman, of Norrkoping, etc. They also work for -the many skilful cabinet
makers who carry on their trade as a handicraft.
Swedish ceramic manufacture, which has its principal representatives
in the two great china-factories of Bórstrand (founded 1727) and Gustavs-
berg (founded 1827), has, in our own days, attained a hitherto unapproached
degree of development, Rorstrand, with its feldspar porcelain and
its “under-glaze painting”, has produced decorative objects, table-servi-
ces, etc., of great artistic merit, composed, for the most part, by A lf Wallander,
aided by a staff of other excellent and well-schooled artists, Gus-
tavsberg received a powerful artistic impulse under the direction of the
painter Gunnar Wennerberg, whose faince-works, in sgraffiati-decoration
and crockery-ware with barbotine-colouring -^-„. the latter work continued
in a specially successful manner by Beata Martensson, even after both
these artists had left the factory — form the finest production of the works,
from an artistic point of view.
During the last few years, too, the manufacture of earthenware of artistic
design and execution has sprung up in different parts of the country.
The chief producer among these artistic potters is Tage Zickerman, Witt-
sjo, with his admirable designs and shapes and his varying glazings.
Among other producers of such pottery, may be mentioned Bilma Persson,
Arvika, Anders and Bess Wissler, Mariefred,, and the. Uppsala-Ekeby
Aktiebolag, Uppsala, while the old Bóganos Works, with sometimes very
successful results, have also turned their attention to the artistic side bf
earthenware-manufacture.
Artistic glass-manufacture is carried on chiefly by the two large
glass-factories of Kosta and Bejmyre. Specially deserving of mention
are the beautiful decorative objects in sculptured- or cameo-glass, for
which, at first, Gunnar Wennerberg designed the models, this artist being
succeeded by A lf Wallander, who has also made designs for the crystal-
glass ware.
Goldsmiths’art is carried on by only few firms, but these carry on the
work on a very large scale. In addition to the large Guldsmedsaktiebola-
get, of Stockholm, which supplies all the goldsmiths and silversmiths "of
the country with goods, the three firms, C. G. Ballberg, K . Andersson,
and Gust. Môllenborg have large workshops in Stockholm, the first two
with branches in provincial towns. Among the more prominent artists
who have worked for these firms, may be mentioned Ferd. Boberg, — who
in this branch of art has produced perhaps his most exquisite compositions
— A g i Lindegren, Viet. Andrén, Olga Banner, and B . Lundstedt.
In the treatment of the base metals for the purposes of industrial art,
artistic ironsmith’s work occupies a prominent place, and grows in popularity
from day to day. Petrus Forsberg, Stockholm, carries on this
beautiful work on a large scale. Among other excellent producers of
artistic ironsmith’s work may be specially mentioned Petter p& Myra, of
Arvika.. In artistic founding,; B. Bergman and 0 . Meyer, both of Stockholm,
vie with each other in producing work of singular perfection. During
the last few years, a sculptor, fli Elmquist, has employed a method of
casting invented by him, which has attracted attention for the possibilities
it affords of producing delicate artistic effects.
Finally, as regards artistic bookbinding, this branch of industrial art is
pursued with unrivalled elegance and taste by Gust. Bedberg, of Stockholm.
Nearly all the professional designers who have been mentioned above,
as working in the various forms of industrial art, have been trained in
the higher industrial-art division of the Technical School, Stockholm.
This institution, which is a most excellent one of its kind, and whose
principals (F. Adler was succeeded by Th. Thorén in 1910) unremittingly
endeavour to conduct the instruction on modem lines, possesses a staff of
excellent teachers and is attended by a very considerable number of pupils.
The other technical schools of the-country, of which those at Gothenburg
and Malmö are the principal, are under the inspection of the Director of
the Technical School of Stockholm.
The Technical School of Stockholm was founded in the middle of last
century by the Svenska Slojdforeningcn —1 the Swedish Sloyd (Industrial
Art) Association -r||, which in many ways, has contributed to the progress
made by the industrial art of Sweden.
Founded as early as the forties and recruited from those employed
in industrial art and from other interested circles, the Society has arranged
prize-competitions and lotteries for artistic objects; technical lectures and
exhibitions of older and newer productions of industrial art have been
held at its meetings, and it has also issued handbooks, designs, and returns
(Sw. meddelanden), Since 1905, this publication has been entitled the
“ Svenska Slojdforeuingens Tidskrift” (The Swedish Industrial Art Association’s
Journal). Among the more important measures and undertakings
of the Society, may be mentioned, in addition to the establishment of the
Technical School of Stockholm, the presentation to the State in 1884 of the