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Jonas Lindvall
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Jonas Lindvall was born in 1963 in Malmö and has spent most of his professional life in the same city. He trained as an interior architect at HDK (the School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg from 1989 to 1993, with additional studies at the Royal College of Art in London in 1992 and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1993. After completing his studies he returned to Malmö and founded his office, Lindvall A&D, in 1993.
Lindvall's practice operates across two disciplines. On the architecture side, the office focuses on residential and hospitality projects, generally smaller in scale, including multi-apartment buildings, private villas, and interiors for restaurants and hotels. His most published building is Villa M2 in Malmö (2008), a house that gained wider cultural recognition when it was used as a filming location in the second season of the Nordic noir television series Bron (The Bridge). His restaurant interiors include Gastrologik in Stockholm and Bloom in the Park in Malmö, both of which received Michelin stars.
As a furniture designer he has worked with manufacturers including Skandiform, Stolab, David Design, Johanson Design, and Wästberg. His approach is grounded in traditional craft and materials - primarily solid wood - but he tends toward forms that feel contemporary rather than nostalgic. The Oak chair (S-049) for Skandiform, designed around 2000, was named Furniture of the Year in 2001. The Papa lounge chair (F-275), also for Skandiform, became one of his most commercially successful pieces, inspired loosely by the aesthetic warmth of Danish mid-century design. For Stolab, he developed the Miss Holly series - dining chairs and bar stools that reinterpret the Windsor chair in solid ash or oak - as well as the Miss Tailor table and the Wrap sofa. Earlier work includes the Beatnik stools for David Design from 1994.
He has received the Excellent Swedish Design award on four occasions, and the Swedish Association of Architects awarded him the Golden Chair for the interior of restaurant Izakaya Koi. His furniture is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
At Nordic auction houses, Jonas Lindvall pieces appear regularly in the design and furniture categories. Stockholms Auktionsverk accounts for the largest share of lots, with Bukowskis also a consistent venue. The Miss Holly series, Papa chairs, and Oak chairs are the most frequently traded designs. Realized prices tend to reflect the secondary market for contemporary Scandinavian production furniture - a single Miss Tailor table has sold for 7,100 SEK, while Miss Holly chairs and Papa pairs typically trade in the 500-3,000 SEK range per lot.