Designer · Sweden
Hans-Agne Jakobsson
Hans-Agne Jakobsson – Swedish interior, furniture and lighting designer, founder of Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB in Markaryd.
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Hans-Agne Jakobsson was a Swedish interior and furniture designer, known primarily for his lamps. Information about his life comes mainly from gallery and auction sources, which consistently give his dates as 1919–2009 and 1951 as the year he founded Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB in Markaryd. According to these sources, he trained as a cabinetmaker, studied architecture in Gothenburg, worked as an industrial designer at General Motors, and later as an assistant to Carl Malmsten and Werner West; his lamps were characterised by diffused light and concealed light sources. There is no institutional confirmation of these details.
