Design Scandinave Göta Trägårdh

Göta Trägårdh was a well known Swedish textile designer, fashion designer/stylist and costume designer during the 1950s and 60s. At the same time, she was one of the founders of one of Swedens most esteemed design schools  “Beckmans”, where she influenced and taught many of the next generation of designers in Sweden.

She is known for her “pencil line look” in her textile designs. Many of her textile designs are characterised by thin, wavy pencil lines- organic in nature yet shifting and harmonic in form. Additionally, in accordance with the era in which she was working, Göta was very influenced by op art and splatter painting. These contemporary design themes are repeated often in her textiles and are very representative of the Göta Trägårdh style.

Götas favourite colour treatments were either a bright pink or, a black and white combination with gray tonalities.

Bemz has chosen to reproduce ”Josephine”- a classic Göta Trägårdh textile design in both pink, and black and white colourways- Göta Trägårdhs preferred colour palettes.