Josefina Hägg Edenholm is a Swedish cabinetmaker and designer trained at LiU Malmstens in Stockholm. Since her graduation in 2014, she has been working at IKEA´s design department as cabinetmaker, responsible for full scale prototypes.
One of Hägg Edenholms's works during the studies at LiU Malmstens was the nest table På Egna Ben (eng. on your own feet) from 2014 as a part of a collaboration between Malmsten´s and the company Svenskt Tenn, called “take care of”. After years of manufacturing Josef Frank's furniture, the carpentry AH Eriksson & Söner had a whole house full of leftover veneer sheets from the various roots. The students were assigned to take care of the remaining small sheets and based on that create new ideas.
Hägg Edenholm studied the drawings from Frank´s famous cabinet, the Nationalmuseum cabinet- Model No.881, and discovered a difference between Frank's drawing and the cabinets produced. It turned out that the drawing contained 21 drawers, the finished cabinet only 19. Hägg Edenholm's brilliant idea was to use the two ”missing” drawers in her new design.
Other examples of Hägg Edenholm’s design are an armchair made together with Emil Zetterlund at LiU Malmstens. In 2019 and 2020 Hägg Edenholm participated in the exhibition Female Traces at the Museum of Furniture Studies that also holds the nest table På Egna Ben in their collection.
