Eva Schildt

Eva Schildt

A symphony of warm grey, deep red, dusky blue, orange and aqua. A quintet of colours that create harmony and together form the very essence of the furniture. It all began with the colours. With the idea of creating a glass cabinet in a modern style, inspired by old glass verandas and the three-dimensional glass sculptures of visual artist Eric H. Olson.

The colours became the starting point for the shape of the Kvintett (Quintet) sideboard by Eva Schildt, a display cabinet transformed into a multifaceted side cabinet.

The cabinet is handmade with a mahogany frame, mirrored base and glass sides. The bold colours of the short sides are combined with light tones in the front to avoid obscuring the objects being displayed. The colour combinations change as you move along the furniture.

The slim dimensions of the cabinet, with the legs higher than the storage section, are influenced by Josef Frank’s idea that a piece of furniture should stand on legs that are high enough to discern the line between the floor and wall beneath it. To further create lightness of form, the frame is slightly recessed at the front.

Sideboard Kvintett

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.

Sideboard Kvintett