Viola Gråsten

Viola Gråsten
Viola Gråsten (1950),
photograph by Erik Holmén
Born Viola Hildegard Forsberg
(1910-11-18)November 18, 1910
Keuruu, Finland
Died 1994 (aged 83–84)
Nationality Swedish
Education Central School of Crafts in Helsinki
Known for Textile Design
Awards Prince Eugen Medal (1971)

Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Viola Hildegard Forsberg) (18 November 1910 – 1994) was a Swedish textile designer.[1]

Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten. She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft. In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she became artistic director of fashion textiles at Mölnlycke Weavers, where she stayed until her retirement in 1973. [2]

She was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for design in 1971. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Viola Gråsten". bemz. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Viola Gråsten Finland/Sweden 1910-1994". sotbcn. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
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