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Erik Gunnar Asplund
(1885 - 1940)

Eric Gunnar Asplund was born in Stockholm in 1885. Sweden's greatest twentieth-century architect and a strong influence on Scandinavian architecture and design. Asplund began his career as a painter before he studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. After completing his studies, Asplund worked for the architects Tengrom, Westman and Ostberg.

Asplund also taught at the Royal Institute of Technology and edited a Swedish architectural magazine.

By the end of the 1920's, Asplund had become a committed Modernist. In his architecture, he sought to point the way "to a new architecture and a new life". Keeping with this ideal, he became a signatory to the Acceptera manifesto of 1931. His controversial pioneering layout for the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 hearlded the arrival of modernism in Scandinavia.

Hightower is proud to offer three pieces of Asplund's work; the Asplund Stool, GA-1 and GA-2 chairs.