Designer Eva Schildt’s woven “Vienna” rug was influenced by Josef Frank’s home town Vienna and the city’s blossoming cultural life around the turn of the last century. The artist Gustav Klimt often painted flat backgrounds with seemingly two-dimensional chess squares and circles. The double weave technique made the carpet’s random expression, with miscellaneous squares in different sizes, possible. The blue-green colour scheme was launched in the spring of 2023 at Svenskt Tenn.
Designer
Eva Schildt
Eva Schildt was raised on an island in Stockholm’s archipelago. She studied furniture and product design at Beckmans College of Design and graduated in 2001. While studying, she worked in the textile department at Svenskt Tenn’s store on Strandvägen 5 in Stockholm, and she started her own design business the year she graduated.
Since then, Eva Schildt has worked with everything from furniture and textiles to packaging, interiors and designing for trade fairs – often with inspiration from nature and preferably with an element of both humour and multi-functionality. She designed the now classic Oolong table for Svenskt Tenn, among other items. Her work is represented at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and Röhsska Museet in Gothenburg. Read more