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Andreas Siesing
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Andreas Siesing is a Swedish design historian and auction specialist whose work focuses on mapping and documenting the output of Swedish furniture manufacturers during the post-war decades. Based at Auctionet, where he serves as in-house expert on interiors and vintage Swedish design, he has spent years cataloguing makers, models, and material details that fell through the cracks of mainstream design history.
His first major reference work, 'Svenska Möbler: Folkhemsform i ull, jakaranda, furu och bok 1949-1970', was published by Atlantis in Stockholm in 2015. Running to 640 pages, the book set out to document the furniture manufactured during the folkhem era - a period defined by functionalist ideals, accessible craftsmanship, and the emergence of mass-market design in Sweden. The title brought attention to hundreds of designers and producers who had remained largely unrecorded.
In 2021 Siesing published a sequel through Lindelöws Bokförlag: 'Svenska 70-talsmöbler: I plast, stål, furu och manchester 1969-1980'. The book covers the decade in which Swedish furniture moved decisively toward plastics, tubular steel, and bold textile choices, tracking the shift in interior ideals as the welfare-state optimism of the 1960s gave way to a more eclectic and experimentalist climate. Together the two books function as a paired compendium, covering roughly three decades of Swedish production with over a thousand documented pieces.
Siesing is also recognized as one of Sweden's foremost authorities on collectible IKEA furniture, a field that has grown considerably as early IKEA designs from the 1950s and 1960s increasingly appear at auction. He has commented on individual pieces in international press and been cited in articles on furniture records achieved at Nordic auction houses.
On the secondary market, Siesing's books themselves have circulated through Swedish regional auction houses - including Stockholms Auktionsverk Sickla, Höörs Auktionshall, and Skånes Auktionsverk - as collectibles in the design and interiors category. All 14 items attributed to him on Auctionist are his published titles; auction results have reached up to 1,500 SEK for the 2015 Atlantis volume.