Stig Lindberg, photographed by Hilding Ohlson.

Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) is one of Sweden’s most popular designers and he would have turned 90 this year so there are two major exhibitions about him in Stockholm - at Nationalmuseum and at Gustavsbergs porcelain museum.

Berså tea cup, 1960. Photographer: Hans Thorwid.

He worked as artistic director at Gustavsberg ceramics factory and his creative mind and hands gave birth to a television set for Luma, a range of high-quality plastic items for Gustavsberg, textile prints and ceramics - and much much more! I love his figures in stoneware clay and the details on some of them - things pressed into the clay and little bits of glazing that add so much to the whole.

Tallyhoo textile print, 1961. Photographer Bodil Karlsson.

Turtur coffee cup, 1970. Photographer Bodil Karlsson.

I know Lindberg most for his illustrations of Lennart Hellsing’s children’s books and I also love his illustrations on children’s dinner sets.

Jimmy Potter buys a lollipop, 1952. Photographer Erik Cornelius.

You can see and buy Lindberg’s designs on retrohome and more swedish retro on Oliko, that Kerstin mentioned the other day.

Reptil, porcelain series 1955. Photographer Bodil Karlsson.

All images copyright Nationalmuseum.

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