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Christine Schwarzer
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Christine Schwarzer was born in 1970 in Copenhagen and trained as a furniture and industrial designer at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen and at the University of Art and Design (TaiK) in Helsinki, graduating in 1999. Since then she has run her studio in Copenhagen, with the exception of a year spent working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Her design philosophy is direct: she wants to make things more beautiful, more playful, and more joyful. That intention shows up clearly in the Flower coffee table she designed for the Swedish manufacturer Swedese. The piece, introduced in the mid-2000s and still in production, uses a petal-shaped laminate top resting on a slender single leg. It can be ordered in multiple sizes and heights and grouped together, making it both a standalone object and a composable system. Flower has become the defining work of her practice and one of the more consistent sellers in Swedese's catalogue.
Schwarzers work extends beyond Flower. She has also designed for Blå Station, the Swedish furniture brand based in Åstorp, adding seating and table objects to their range. The collaboration with Blå Station points to the cross-border nature of her practice - a Danish designer working regularly with Swedish manufacturers, which is a common pattern in the Nordic furniture industry.
Alongside her studio work, Schwarzer co-founded RoomMate together with Anne Birgitte Balle, a line of furniture and props designed for children. RoomMate received the Design Plus Award in 2007, a German quality label organised around the Frankfurt Messe that recognises products combining good design with production quality.
Schwarzers work has been shown at exhibitions in Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. Her pieces appear in the collection documentation of the Möbeldesignmuseum in Sweden, which records the Flower table as a notable object in modern Nordic furniture.
At auction, Schwarzer's work appears almost exclusively through Flower-series tables. Swedish auction houses - including Stockholms Auktionsverk, Norrlands Auktionsverk and Göteborgs Auktionsverk - carry her pieces with some regularity. Prices for Flower tables typically settle in the 2,000-7,000 SEK range depending on condition, size and year of production, with the Flower Mono variant from around 2024 reaching the higher end. The auction presence is modest but steady, reflecting a designer whose work retains secondary-market interest without yet trading at collector-level premiums.