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Bo Eigert
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Bo Eigert was born in 1925 and worked as a furniture designer and manufacturer in Hova, a small town in Vastergotland, western Sweden. He founded and ran Firma B. Eigert AB, the company through which he both designed and produced his furniture. This combination of designer and maker - operating a workshop in a rural Swedish town - placed him in a tradition of small-scale Scandinavian producers who built their reputation through a handful of distinctive models rather than broad commercial catalogues.
His best-documented work is the Stalbo seating series, produced from the late 1960s through the 1970s. The design centres on a chromed tubular steel frame - slender, continuous in line - supporting removable cushioned pads upholstered in a range of textiles: corduroy, velvet, canvas and plush fabrics were all used across different production runs. The name Stalbo plays on the Swedish words stal (steel) and bo (to live or dwell), a compact description of the functional thinking behind the piece. Arm chairs, sofas and matching footstools were produced as part of the series, allowing for flexible room configurations.
The structural approach of the Stalbo reflects Bauhaus-derived principles that filtered through Scandinavian modernism during the postwar decades: honest use of industrial materials, the separation of structure from upholstery, and a form that could be reconfigured or re-upholstered without discarding the frame. The chrome-and-textile combination placed the Stalbo in dialogue with better-known contemporaries in Danish and Swedish design, though Eigert's work remained more regionally rooted and less commercially distributed than those mainstream counterparts.
Eigert died in 2016 at the age of around 91. His company's work was not widely publicised during his lifetime, and detailed archival documentation of the firm's production history is limited. What has brought his name into wider circulation is the vintage furniture market, which began taking sustained interest in his pieces from the 2010s onward.
On the Auctionist platform, all 14 recorded items are seating pieces - primarily Stalbo armchairs and occasional sofas - catalogued under Chairs and Armchairs and Furniture. The auction market has been active across several Nordic houses including Norrlands Auktionsverk, Markus Auktioner, Crafoord Auktioner Malmö, Helsingborgs Auktionskammare, and Bukowskis. Prices for pairs of Stalbo armchairs have reached 7,000 EUR at the high end, with individual chairs typically selling in the range of 3,000-6,500 SEK, reflecting solid collector demand for well-preserved examples in original or quality-restored upholstery.