Designer · Sweden · 1915–2011
Carl Fagerlund
Carl Fagerlund (1915–2011) – Swedish lighting architect and lamp designer, associated with Orrefors glassworks from 1946.
Teak lamp, designed by Carl Fagerlund, Sweden, 1970s
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1915–2011
- Country
- Sweden
- Manufacturers
- Orrefors
Carl Gustaf Vilhelm Fagerlund was born on 25 November 1915 in Kalmar and died in 2011 in Orrefors. In 1943, he obtained a drawing teacher’s diploma from Högre konstindustriella skolan in Stockholm and taught drawing at Solbacka school for a year. In 1944, he became a lighting architect at the ASEA group in Stockholm, and in 1946 he took up the same position at Orrefors glassworks.
He designed numerous ceiling and table lamps for homes, as well as lighting for public buildings, including Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm, Frederiksberg Town Hall, the d’Angleterre and Mercur hotels in Copenhagen, the old town hall in Kiruna, the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Möllevången Church in Malmö, the General Motors headquarters in the USA and the crematorium in Gävle. He exhibited, among other places, in London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Copenhagen and Stockholm. At the 11th Milan Triennale in 1957, he received a silver medal.
