With excitement, Artifort is happy to announce that Monica Förster, designer of the Suit chair for Artifort, has won the Bruno Mathsson Prize 2021. Established in 1984, the prize is considered the largest Nordic design award.

⁠“The drive to test new shapes, techniques and materials is impressive in Monica Förster’s extensive work. Her cross-border and international design dialogues surprise and amaze, as does the mix of lightness and weight in the creative expressions.” - the board of Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation about Monica.

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The distinctive silhouette of the Suit, with its elegant open back and flowing lines, effortlessly matches the contours of the body. It’s a surprisingly comfortable and inviting chair, whose soft upholstery embraces the user like a chic tailor-made suit. This unique chair will add an exclusive elegance and individuality to any space. 



I really like working with paper models. You will always discover things you
didn’t anticipate from the beginning. 


- Monica Förster




















 


ABOUT MONICA FÖRSTER

Strong, restrained and poetic. Monica Förster (1966), creator of some of the most internationally renowned objects in contemporary Swedish design today, grew up close to the Arctic circle in the very north of Sweden. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of pure form mixed with a never- ending curiosity for new materials and technology. Always trying to work in a cross-disciplinary way, she invents and renews typologies in industrial, furniture and object design. Her talent for creativity and design blossomed during her studies at two of Sweden's largest design colleges, Beckmans and Konstfack. In 1999 she founded her own Monica Förster Design Studio in Stockholm. Förster has won numerous awards for her work, such as Designer of the Year, and has been exhibited around the world in museums and institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.