18th century furniture reconstructed. 
In cooperation with the cabinet-maker company S O Larsson Stilmöbler, Durán Textiles presents some of the most beautiful and renowned 18th century period furniture dressed with silks and printed cottons from our historic collection. Ingela Ryhede, furniture decorator, interior decorator and conservator, has painted them in linseed oil paint in nuances modelled from original furniture.
The Gripsholm arm chair with footstool is painted in bluish green. The bottom is covered with the silk damask FLORA, originally imported by the East Indian Trade Company. The cushions are made from the hand printed cotton PUNICA reproduced from a quilted blanket in the Chevalier’s Wing at Gripsholm Castle.
The Gripsholm arm chair is named after Gripsholm Castle at the lake Mälaren, in central Sweden. King Gustavus III decided in the 1770ies to make this into his winter residence and made extensive renovations of the old castle. In 1781 to 1782 the the Chevalier’s Wing was build and furnished, including 16 rooms for the courtiers and 12 rooms for the ladies-in waitng. The rooms were all equipped in the same manner with painted walls, plain furniture and cotton textiles. An arm chair, in the 18th century called a bergère, with footstool and cushions in checkered or printed cotton was placed in each of the ladies’ rooms. The elegant simplicity of the interior had economical reasons, and the courtiers who were accustomed to wall coverings of damask, gilded furniture and silk upholstery, did not appreciate the stay at Gripsholm. Today, however, the Chevalier’s Wing is known as one of the most beautiful Swedish interiors of the 18th century.
The Neoclassic chairs and writing-table are painted in an opaque black oil paint and dressed in the printed cotton PUMPA modelled after a Swedish print from the 1740-ies.
This neoclassic chair has carved decorations, yellow ochre oil paint and is dressed with the embroidered silk TULIP, which is modelled after a silk woven at Spitalfields outside London in the mid 18th century. The back of the rest is covered with the block printed cotton LINNEA, originally printed at Tobias Lang’s manufactory in Visby 1784-1836. Similar printed cotton was used as bed curtains in one of the rooms of the Chevalier’s Wing at Gripsholm Castle.
www.solarssonstilmobler.se.
Ingela Ryhede Inredningar och Verkstad, Stockholm. |
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S O Larsson Stilmöbler is a traditional cabinet-maker.
The Gripsholm arm chair is painted in bluish green. The bottom is covered with the silk damask FLORA, originally imported by the East Indian Trade Company.
This Baroque chair in a style from the first half of the 18th century is painted with English red oil paint. The seat is dressed in the silk droguet KONVALJ, reproduced from a silk woven in Stockholm 1764.
L’Encyclopédie des arts et des métiers edited 1751-72 by Diderot et D’Alembert. |
