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Irma Kronlund (b. Sweden 1919-2008)

Irma Kronlund grew up in western Kronoberg and had completed her designer education at the Technical School and the Higher Art Industrial School in Stockholm.

From the mid-1950s, Kronlund designed for the Kronoberg läns hemslöjd, (County Crafts Association) headquartered in the city of Växjö, in Kronoberg county, in south-central Sweden. 

She remained as a textile artist at Hemslöjden in Kronoberg all her professional life until retirement in December 1984.
 

Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002)

Barbro Nilsson (1899-1983)
In 1889, the Swedish textile designer Barbro Nilsson was born in Malmö, in the Southwest of Sweden. She was educated at Johanna Brunssons vävskola and Tekniska skolan in Stockholm (now Kunstfackskolan). She became a capable, inspiring and demanding teacher in her textile subjects.

Märta Måås-Fjetterström (1873-1941)

André Arbus (1903 -1969)

Édouard Bénédictus (1878-1930) was a French designer, painter and chemist, and one of the most recognisable figures of floral Art Deco. Born in Paris, he began in the Art Nouveau years and moved with the change of taste after 1912, becoming known for the pattern portfolios Variations (1923) and Nouvelles variations (1928), produced by the stencil technique known as pochoir and built on bold, flat blocks of colour.

Paul Haesaerts (1901-1974) was a Belgian art critic, architect, film-maker and designer, born at Boom and active in Brussels. He studied painting, architecture, law and philosophy, and worked across all of them: among his occupations he is recorded as a carpet designer, and Art Deco carpets to his design date from the 1920s and 1930s.

Ashley Havinden (1903 – 1973)