Maja Sjöström

Following the opening of the city hall in 1923, Sjöström moved to Rome where she spent the rest of her life, ultimately in poverty, dismissed by the Swedes for her belief in Mussolini.

[1] Further collaboration with Westman led to a commission for all the interior textile decorations for Stockholm's newly designed City Hall.

This led to her spending two years in Venice at the Luigi Bevilacqua silk-weaving establishment where her large tapestry Festens genier (Angeli) and the silk works Hind och Örn (Cervo e Aquila) and Påfåglar (Pavoni) were produced.

[2] After the opening of the City Hall in 1923, Sjöström moved to Rome, where she continued to design textiles in her studio.

Clothes and bags inspired by her drawings were sold in Italian fashion shops and by Hayward's of New York.