Mathias Bengtsson

With the Growth Chaise longue as well as his other organic pieces such as the Growth table or Cellular Chair, Mathias Bengtsson questions the borders between the natural and the artificial while breaking down the established boundaries between design, art, craft and technology. Always seeking to take his thinking in new directions, Mathias Bengtsson’s sculptural design pieces are both visually striking and technically innovative. Working with diverse industrial materials and processes, he pushes forward the sculptural, technical, and philosophical possibilities of three-dimensional design.

Mathias Bengtsson’s artistic impact on the design field has not passed by unnoticed. Curators of art museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been showing his works extensively both in fine art and design contexts such as in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Design Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Rohsska Museum in Göteborg. Moreover his pieces have been acquired by a number of significant museums such as the MOMA, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Manchester Art Galleries, England; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Milwaukee Art Museum, USA; Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York; and Designmuseum Danmark.