Viola Gråsten
Viola Gråsten | |
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 Viola Gråsten (1950), photograph by Erik Holmén | |
| Born | Viola Hildegard Forsberg 18 November 1910 Keuruu, Finland |
| Died | 20 October 1994 (aged 83) |
| Other names | Viola Gråsten-Öhquist |
| Known for | Textile design |
| Spouse | Nils Robert Waldemar Öhquist |
| Awards | Prince Eugen Medal (1973) |
Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Forsberg; 18 November 1910 – 20 October 1994) was a Swedish textile designer.[1][2][3]
Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten.[4] She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft. In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she became artistic director of fashion textiles at Mölnlycke Weavers, where she stayed until her retirement in 1973.[5][6]
Gråsten was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for design in 1973.[7]
Gallery
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A blanket from Tidstrand's Wool Factories designed by Viola Gråsten.
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Viola Gråsten's pattern on a dress from around 1955.
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Further reading
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[edit | edit source]- Works in the Design Arkivet database (in Swedish)
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- 1910 births
- 1994 deaths
- 20th-century Swedish women artists
- 20th-century Finnish women artists
- 20th-century women textile artists
- 20th-century Swedish textile artists
- 20th-century Swedish women textile artists
- Swedish weavers
- Swedish textile designers
- Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal
- Finnish emigrants to Sweden