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Lisa Larson

Lisa Larson was born in 1931 in Härlunda in the south of Sweden. During her adolescence, Lisa Larson had the ambition of becoming a fashion designer. Then she started the ceramics program at the College of Crafts and Design in Gothenburg, and found her new passion.

A few years later she met Stig Lindberg, the artistic leader of Gustavsberg’s porcelain factory, during an art competition and he offered her a one-year trial at the factory. “I was skeptical about working commercially, but because I could work on my own projects at the same time, I still said yes. Gunnar and I would stay 26 whole years in Gustavsberg”. She quickly became one of the more prominent designers. Lisa Larson is best known for her figurines, but she has also designed a lot of art ware such as vases and bowls. Lisa almost always mixes stoneware with chamotte, which is finely crushed burnt clay. The chamotte stoneware gives the objects the grainy and rustic look that characterizes Lisa’s design.