Nisse Strinning

Nils "Nisse" Strinning (8 December 1917 – 10 May 2006) was a Swedish architect and designer, born in Kramfors. He studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in the 1940s, where as a student he designed a…

Biography

Background

Nils "Nisse" Strinning (8 December 1917 – 10 May 2006) was a Swedish architect and designer, born in Kramfors. He studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in the 1940s, where as a student he designed a dish rack of plastic-coated metal wire. With his wife, the designer Kajsa Strinning (1922–2017), he formed one of the best-known partnerships in Swedish design.

Signature Style

String Furniture describes Nisse as an architect and inventor with an eye for everyday needs and the imagination to solve them, while Kajsa explored, refined and documented the ideas in construction drawings. Their work followed the belief that form should always follow function: light steel-wire constructions, plate racks, wire trays and practical household objects.

Notable Works

String® shelf (1949, with Kajsa Strinning), winner of the Bonnier Folk Library bookshelf competition
Gold medal at the Milan Triennial, 1954
Plex panels for String, launched 1954
String® Pocket, his last design, launched in 2005

Legacy

String® became one of Sweden's biggest selling and most loved designs and received the Long Life Design award in Japan in 2020. Nisse Strinning kept working until his death in 2006 at the age of 89.