INGEGERD TORHAMN

Important Rug

Designed 1929, executed 1930

Hand-knotted wool

With woven signature ‘it’

H. 218 W. 218 cm

Offered together with two preparatory gouache drawings from the designer, both signed and one dated 1929.

Exhibited:

Stockholm Exhibition, Villa 42.

V.I.P. in Swedish Design, Kalmar Konstmuseum 1996.

History:

One of the twelve rugs of her designs (including this rug as part of the music room) exhibited at the important Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. A number of her works, including those from the Stockholm Exhibition, are retained within the permanent collection of the National Museum, Stockholm.

Literature:

Utställningsförlaget, ‘Stockholmsutställningen 1930 av konstindustri, konsthantverk och hemslöjd; specialkatalog över bastadsavdelingen’ , Stockholm, 1930.

Bröderna, Lagerström, ‘Stockholm Exhibition 1930 Katalog’ , Stockholm, 1930, p.149.

Arkiv for Svensk Formgivning, ‘V.I.P. in Swedish Design: Axel Larsson, Ingegerd Torhamn, Inga Linden & Paula Sokolow’ , 1996, Kalmar Konstmuseum.

Wollin, Nils G., ‘Svenska Textilier 1930’ , Stockholm 1930, plate no. 50.