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Sven Markelius

Sven Markelius’ background as an architect shows in his textile designs as his fascination for the set square, the most important tool of the architect, is visible in all his patterns. His wife, Ka, was a skilled textile artist and of much help when the colour-ways of his patterns were created.

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Sven Markelius

Sven Markelius (1889 - 1972)

Sven Markelius was one of the most famous architects in Sweden during the 20th century. In 1952, when ”Pythagoras” was created, he worked with Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Bengt Lindroos among others in an architectural group designing the UN-buildings in New York. Sven’s task was to design the ECO-SOC session hall for economical and social issues. Down below you can see the the stage design with ”Pythagoras” in the background (here printed on velvet by Ljungbergs), very ”daring” for its time. This pattern is hand printed and one of the most complicated prints we do as we use eighteen screens in double repeats. Therefore it is our most exclusive textile.

”Pythagoras” is printed on 100% pure linen in two colour combinations, red and blue, and this year we are recreating the pattern also on an exclusive Trevira CS velvet quality in three colour combinations, where also a ”lion-yellow” variant has been taken out of our archive. The small-scale pattern ”Prism”, which is a contemporary design, is presented again as a novelty this year and is now printed on our new Trevira CS”Solo Structure” in four colour combinations and in white on Trevira CS voile.