Rolf Engströmer, (20 January 1892 – 2 August 1970) was a Swedish

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, interior designer, and furniture designer. He is known for his work in the Swedish Grace style.

Biography and work

Engströmer was born in 1892 in

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, Sweden. He received his education as an architect at

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in Stockholm between 1914 and 1919, before working for architects including Ragnar Hjorth,

Carl Bergsten Carl Gustaf Bergsten (10 May 1879 in Norrköping - 22 April 1935 in Stockholm) was a Sweden, Swedish architect. He graduated in 1901 from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and three years later from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in ...

, and

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in Stockholm. At Bergsten, he worked, among other things, with the interior design of the ship MS Kungsholm, where he, along with the artist and friend Jerk Werkmäster, was responsible for the design of the first-class party and music room. Engströmer also participated as an architect at the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, as an employee of Asplund. During the 1930s, he had its own furniture and interior design company, located on Arsenalsgatan in Stockholm, which was called "Jefta". Engströmer's other works include the interior of the Rigoletto Cinema on Kungsgatan in Stockholm and the renovation of

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in Greenwich in London, where he designed the entrance hall together with Jerk Werkmäster.

Gallery of selected works

File:Hölicks kapell.jpg, Hölicks Chapel File:Eltham Palace - interior, view of entrance hall.jpg, Eltham Palace, Entrance Hall File:Eltham Palace Hallway-16623425.jpg, Eltham Palace, Entrance Hall File:Rigoletto 2009a.jpg, Rigoletto Cinema, Stockholm File:MS Kungsholm skiss.jpg, MS Kungsholm File:Junex factory Huskvarna.jpg, Junex textile factory,

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, 1936

References

External links

Jefta Wallpaper in V&A Collection
* Wikimedia Commons Rolf Engströmer
Eltham Palace Gardens at English Heritage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Engströmer, Rolf 1892 births 1970 deaths Swedish architects KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni People from Hudiksvall