In other words, he wanted to design a very simple light fixture, designed to direct the light downwards but that also helps to create an ambience in a room. This is where he started. However, he also wanted the lamp to offer something more. A specific feature making it stand out ever so slightly from the crowd.
Jonas Lindvall was born in Malmö in 1963 and trained as an interior architect at the University of Gothenburg’s School of Design and Crafts. He has also studied furniture design at the Royal College of Art in London and architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Jonas started his own studio in 1993. Several of Jonas’ pieces of furniture have won the “Excellent Swedish Design” award and are represented in museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm.