Gunnar Nylund

Nylund did some extra work at the Bing & Grondahl Porcelain factory, designing new products for a Paris exhibition.

Prior to a major exhibition in 1930 at Bo in Copenhagen, they launched SAXBO, a groundbreaking Nordic series of iconic stoneware, mostly undecorated in matte glazes and novel colors.

The SAXBO stoneware generated a lot of attention at a Svenskt Tenn exhibition, the same year that Nylund was recruited to Rörstrand, at that time owned by Arabia.

In order to start crafting stoneware the young ceramist was moved to the company's factory in Lidköping, which was relatively unknown at that time and which focused solely on porcelain production.

After a one-year break at Bing & Gröndahl in Denmark, Rörstrand's new chief Fredrik Wehtje managed to get Nylund to return to Lidköping in 1937.

Here he designed numerous tableware series and laid the ground for all the factory's 1940s collections, featuring innovative glazes.

Gunnar Nylund's work and a number of his many tableware collections and kitchen series are included in most reference books on 20th century ceramics.

The book also contains press clippings as well as a lot of photographs cataloging Nylund's great collections primarily from his half century with Rörstrand as well as his other activities, even after 1970 - as a pensioner with a workshop in Lomma, Sweden.