You may also like Set of 2 yellow storage boxes Small grey cotton flatweave rug 120 x 180cm Yellow patterned cushion 45 x 45cm Yellow round terracotta vase W37 x H66 x L48.5cm.Product weight: 2.74kg. Delivery UK Mainland & Northern Ireland Accessory orders over £50 = FREE Standard service within 3 days = £4.95 Delivery Republic of Ireland: Standard Service = £12 Click here to see more on our Delivery & Returns page. Dust regularly with a clean dry cloth.Remove stubborn stains with weak washing up solution and a damp cloth and then wipe dry with a clean dry duster.Never use arbrasive cleaners as they will scratch the finish!It was certainly no accident that Karl Malmvall became a furniture designer. He more or less grew up in Karl Andersson & Sons’ furniture factory in Huskvarna, a firm started by his grandfather and for which his own father designed furniture. After studying at the Carl Malmsten school in Stockholm and the Aarhus architectural college in Denmark, Karl was discovered by Gillis Lundgren who was one of Ivar Kamprad’s closest collaborators.
This resulted in two decades of working at IKEA, initially at the furniture giant’s design office in Switzerland and thereafter in Jakarta, Indonesia. The years that he spent at IKEA stimulated an interest in the practical details of design that few designers devote much attention to: creating a product that not only works well but that is also well adapted to manufacture and distribution. The centimetres and millimetres and the constructional details that result in a product being more easy to handle in the factory one has chosen for its production and that means that it fits into a container that will freight it to the resale outlet. This interest recurs in his fascination with folding chairs, one of the most practically oriented of all furniture designs. Over the years Karl has acquired a notable collection of such items and it was the prototype of a folding chair that he presented on the occasion of his first meeting with Design House Stockholm’s founder and managing director Anders Färdig.