En studie av stolstillverkningen i Stockholm 1750-1820. Material och metoder

Abstract

The furniture design has been a part of the human experience since the beginning of history. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to penetrate the chair manufacturing in Stockholm between the years 1750-1820. The initial part of the essay it's an chair historic part and starts with the antiquity and ends the year 1846, that was the last year of guilds in Sweden. The essay is based on four inventory lists of workshops that belonged to chair craftsman in Stockholm between 1792 and 1812. By studying their workshops I have been able to confirm what the chair maker's activities where included, the craftsman only performed woodwork, no painting or upholstery. There is two painting handbooks from the period between 1750 and 1820, that I have been used in the essay to understand the painting manners on chairs during 18th century. In order to establish whether this was the usual manners, a color sample from a chair made by the chair maker E Ståhl was analyzed in the National Heritage Board's laboratories in Visby. The method we used were scanning electron microscope. The essay has been able to confirm some suspicions about how the chair manufacturing went to in the current period. It can also be used as a first step in the chair manufacturing developed in Stockholm. Hopefully the essay can be used for further in-depth studies.