The 2022 Bruno Mathsson Award winner is the designer and interior architect Pierre Sindre. The Bruno Mathsson Award has been presented annually since 1984 and is the largest design award in the Nordic countries, with a prize sum of 200,000 SEK. The award ceremony will take place on October 22, 2022, at the art and design museum Vandalorum in Värnamo, in connection with the opening of a comprehensive exhibition featuring Sindre at Formladan.
The board of the Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation, which awards the prize, states in its motivation:
Furniture designer Pierre Sindre’s capacity is established within professional circles. His experience in creating environments for the administration of justice has given him insights into the hierarchical roles that furniture and interiors play in public spaces. With a strong sense of form and esprit, Sindre develops a durable beauty for all. Appearances are often deceiving — a minimalist seating curve holds surprising comfort, and a large, generous design is expressed with visual lightness. His design language includes both subtlety and clever solutions for care and maintenance. His design convinces in a future built on sustainable development.
About Pierre Sindre
Pierre Sindre (b. 1974) has craftsmanship in his genes. His grandfather was a cabinetmaker in Bodafors in Småland, and his father built boats. Growing up outside Jönköping shaped Sindre’s interest in design and architecture, where he was early exposed to the Danish furniture designer Børge Mogensen’s work for Karl Andersson & Söner, which has a factory in nearby Huskvarna.
After studying interior architecture and furniture design at Konstfack, Sindre joined CREO, an office that, among other assignments, was commissioned by the Swedish National Courts Administration to furnish courtrooms and other spaces that embody society’s hierarchies. A major project was the interior design of Stockholm District Court in the City Hall, designed by architect Carl Westman as an aesthetically crafted total environment. The challenge included the client’s demand for quality and long durability.
Following this experience, Sindre’s mission became to develop human-centered furniture for public environments with insights into the importance of scale. He went on to work for Thomas Sandell, an architecture firm that has become a creative nursery through its vitality. Sindre’s experience furnishing environments for the domains of justice deepened his perspective into comfort for all.
The seemingly modest stackable chair Sindre designed for Källemo is one example. It features several carefully considered details and is made of square steel, which gives the slender supporting structure a forged feel. Human needs are abundantly satisfied in the generous yet lightweight armchair Dandy for Gärsnäs, a bold travesty of French neo-rococo. Its direct opposite has Sindre cleverly created in the constructivist elegant chair ONO for Källemo, another example of how references function in a creative process.
Pierre Sindre currently runs his own design studio in Stockholm. He has received several awards, including Lauritz Icon 2018, Elle Decoration’s Furniture of the Year 2018, Elle Decoration’s Outdoor Furniture of the Year 2018, and Sköna Hem’s Furniture of the Year 2015.
Easychair Dandy, Gärsnäs, 2017.
Chair & Table Sindre, Källemo.
Piazza by Pierre Sindre – SMD.
Day Lite & Day High. Gärsnäs.
Chester sofa by Thomas Sandell and Pierre Sindre, Källemo.
Chester by Thomas Sandell and Pierre Sindre, Källemo.
Day Lite, Day family. Gärsnäs.
ONO chair, Källemo, 2021.
Chair Sindre, Källemo, 2013.
Visir, Örsjö belysning, 2020.
STIFTELSEN KARIN OCH BRUNO MATHSSONS FOND
16 februari 1983 bildades Mathsson-fonden genom donation från Karin och Bruno Mathsson. Fondens ändamål är att främja forskning, utveckling, undervisning och utbildning inom områdena föremål samt inre och yttre miljö. Varje år utdelar fonden Bruno Mathsson-priset på för närvarande 250.000 kronor.
Den ursprungliga styrelsen:
Karin och Bruno Mathsson
Arkitekt Erik Berglund, Möbelinstitutet, Stockholm
Direktör Alf Böe, Munchmuseet, Oslo
Professor Erik Herløw, Köpenhamn
Fil. dr. Ulf Hård af Segerstad, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm
Direktör Tapio Periäinen, Konstflitföreningen, Helsingfors
Advokat Håkan Sjöman, Värnamo
Överintendent Dag Widman, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Direktör Per Berg, Stockholm, adjungerad som sekreterare
Dagens styrelse:
Formgivare och scenograf Gunilla Allard, Grödinge
Designskribent Hedvig Hedqvist, Stockholm
f.d. Kulturchef Monica Lembke, Värnamo, fondens sekreterare
Museichef vid Vandalorum Elna Svenle
Direktör Dan Thelander, Värnamo
Stiftelsen Karin och Bruno Mathssons Fond,
Box 703, SE-331 27 VÄRNAMO
http://www.mathssonfonden.se/2022/index.htm

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