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little tense for the meeting with the famous furniture
designer I had arrived in good time outside his parent´s
home, which also served as a joiner´s workshop and
office, at Tånnögatan in Värnamo. I was expecting to
meet a strict and correct architect. Exactly on time a
fiery red Rover with open roof top arrived, driven by
Bruno Mathsson in casual sports wear crowned with an
elegant leather pilot´s helmet. He made a magnificent
entry, worthy of a master of the functionalistic design
language. This is how managing director Henry Thelander recounts his first meeting with professor Bruno Mathsson. The meeting led to life long friendship and working fellowship. Henry Thelander became Bruno Mathsson´s "gray eminence¨ from that day and, in cooperation with his sons Bo and Dan, he now passes on the cultural inheritance from Bruno Mathsson in Mathsson International AB with subsidiaries Mathsson Form AB and Design Bruno Mathsson AB. |
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