Anna Ingrid Caroline Schlyter, (born 9October 1961) is a

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artist focusing on sculpture and installations. She is best known for her furniture sculptures that have been exhibited in numerous countries.

Early years and education

Caroline Schlyter was educated at

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, Department of Fine Art and at

Royal Institute of Art The Royal Institute of Art () founded in 1735 is an institution in Stockholm, Sweden for higher education in art.The House of Culture, Stockholm in 1989. The chair was shown as an installation where it was covered with of red velvet from the wall down over the chair and out onto the floor. That same year, Schlyter entered the international art/design scene when participating in an international furniture design competition in

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, Japan, where she received an Award Winning Entry for her chair ''Little h'', now executed in wood,Borgard, Sabina, "Buche – soft geformt at best", ''Arcade'' (Germany) No 4, 1990, Cover storyHedqvist, Hedvig, "Form utan gräns", ''Svenska Dagbladet Fredags'' (Sweden) February 9, 1990, Cover story moulded from one single piece of birch plywood. "My aim was to create a clean, unbroken line and avoid joints and connecting details...", she said about her work. Schlyter's design caught the eye of magazine editors and ''Little h'' was featured on the cover of several international magazines. Three years later, in 1992, Schlyter was awarded the ''Utmärkt Svensk Form'' ("Excellent Swedish Design") award for ''Little h''. The jury's motivation: "Nearest a sitsculpture, which independently and skillfully plays on the modern, nordic bent-wood art. The sovereign curvature gives the impression of stretching the wood's possibilities to the utmost."

Career and exhibitions

The chair ''Little h'' was soon after accompanied by other furniture pieces, designed in 1990, with similar one-piece moulded plywood constructions; ''The Lover'' – an armchair, ''The Aunt'' – a dressing table, ''Tripp, Trapp and Trull'' – tables, ''Fido'' – a tea-trolley, ''Little m'' – a child's chair, which all became The ''h-family''. Leo Gullbring wrote, "Caroline Schlyter's distinctly personal and original designs challenge Swedish furniture traditions."Gullbring, Leo, "Caroline Schlyter – Linjen bildar tomrum, bildar form", ''Nordisk Interiör'' (Sweden) 2000 Issue No. 1, pp. 50–52 A major exhibition of her work entitled ''Familjen h-son'', produced by the Swedish Exhibition Agency was first held at the ''Lönnströms Konstmuseum'', Finland, and later travelled around Swedish museums. An accompanying booklet, was published in conjunction with the exhibition. Caroline Schlyter's ''h-family'' has been exhibited at galleries and museums from Europe to Japan to the United States, including: *''Escales autour du monde'', Le Carrousel du

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, Paris, France (1993) *''Svensk form på Svenskt Tenn hösten 1995'', Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm, Sweden (1995) *''D'una sola peca'', Aspectos, Barcelona, Spain (1997) *''Concrete Art and Contemporary Design'', Verner Amell Gallery, London, U.K. (2000) *''Annual Group Event'', Gallery of Functional Art, Los Angeles (2002) *''Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers'',

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, Washington, D.C. (2004) *''The International Art+Design Fair 1900–2007'', The Park Avenue Armory, New York (2007) *''Design Miami/Basel'', Basel, Switzerland (2011). Her work is featured in several significant collections including the

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, Stockholm, Sweden;

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, Germany;

Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all fund ...

, London, U.K.; and V&A Museum of Childhood

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, London, U.K.

Works

In addition to the ''h-family'', Schlyter has in her artistic production worked with many different materials, investigating void in the architectural space. Examples of her installations and exhibitions include: *''Integrated Spatium'' (Little h in steel, velvet) Kulturhuset/The House of Culture, Stockholm, (1989) *''Sculpture 1992'' (glass, plaster, wood, gouache ) Konstfack/University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (1992) *''The Ballerina'' (bronze), Commissioned by

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(1993) *''Knock on Wood'' (relief in sheet aluminium), Råbäck Railway Station, Skaraborg (1994) *''Pockory'' (charcoal on paper enclosed in plastic), Stockholm Smart Show, Stockholm, (1996) *''A paraphrase'' (mixed media – photograph on canvas, charcoal, graphite ), Stockholm -

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'98, Stockholm (1998) *''Prolog'' (ink on paper), The Life Gallery, Stockholm (1999) *''Barhäng'' (ink, paper, wood ), PA & Co, Stockholm (2006) *''Paradiso Inferno Purgatorio'' (photography/c-prints), Konstnärshuset, Stockholm (2009) *''I miss U'' (silk-screen), Konstnärshuset, Stockholm (2011) *''50-50-50'' (mixed-media), Konstnärshuset, Stockholm (2012) In 2015, Schlyter continues to work on a project consisting of sculpture in an architectural video installation, which she first showed at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2013, in a piece called ''Intermolecular Forces''.

References

*Bryant, Kathy, "When Creators Convene, It's All Eyes Toward the Future", ''Los Angeles Times'' (U.S.A.) March 21, 2002 p. 2 *Fleury, Marie-Claude, "Chère Caroline", ''Beaux Arts'' (France) No 120, 1994 p. 28 *Gordan, Dan, (2014) ''Svenska stolar och deras formgivare 1899–2013'', Stockholm: Norstedts, p. 299. *Birks, Kimberlie, (2018) ''Design for Children'', London: Phaidon Press Limited, p. 264,

External links

Robinson, Mark (2013). ''OEN'' Blog 26 December 2013
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