Kersti Sandin, interior architect (SIR/MSA) and industrial designer (MSD), graduated from the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, in 1977. Since 2005 she has been a professor at the School of Design and Crafts at Göteborg University (HDK) and a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Art at Göteborg University. Kersti is a member of the board of the Swedish Association of Architects, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, the Swedish government’s Council on Architecture Form and Design, the Swedish Wood centre, Svenskt Tenn AB. Since 1978 Kersti has worked as a designer for the Swedish furniture and lighting industry. Together with Lars Bülow she founded Materia, a designer furniture company, in 1992. Kersti has received a large number of design awards, including the SIR/Forum Prize in 1983, the Forsnäs Prize in 1985, Best in Show – Designers Saturday 1999 and Framtidens Mötesplats (Meeting Place of the Future) 2003. Over the period 1983–2000 she won 19 design awards for Excellent Swedish Design and has been nominated on two occasions for the international Red Dot Award. Kersti’s work is represented in contemporary design collections at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, the Röhsska Museum for Design and Applied Art, Gothenburg, and the Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne.
Lars Bülow, interior architect (SIR/MSA) and industrial designer (MSD), trained at University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, 1975–1978. Since 1978 Lars has worked as a designer for the Swedish furniture and lighting industry, and together with Kersti Sandin founded Materia, a designer furniture company, in 1992. Lars has received a large number of design awards, including the SIR/Forum Prize in 1983, the Forsnäs Prize in 1985, Best in Show – Designers Saturday 1999 and Framtidens Mötesrum (Meeting Place of the Future) 2003. Over the period 1983–2000 he won 19 design awards for Excellent Swedish Design and has been nominated on two occasions for the international Red Dot Award. Lars’ work is represented in contemporary design collections at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, the Röhsska Museum for Design and Applied Art, Gothenburg, and the Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne.
