Viola Gråsten

Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Viola Hildegard Forsberg) (18 November 1910 - 1994) was a Swedish textile designer.[1]

Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten. She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft. In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she became artistic director of fashion textiles at Mölnlycke Weavers, where she stayed until her retirement in 1973. [2]

She was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for design in 1971. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Viola Gråsten". bemz. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Viola Gråsten Finland/Sweden 1910-1994". sotbcn. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.