Born and raised in Gotland, Mattias Ljunggren moved in the mid 1980’s to studied Interior architecture and furniture design at Konstfack University of Art, Craft and Design in Stockholm from where he graduated in 1990 and founded his own design studio the same year.
While studying, Ljunggren aimed to create the cleanest shape of a chair that he could possibly design. The result was the stackble chair Cobra that received the Excellent Swedish Design Award in 1991 and was put into production by Källemo in 1993. Since then, Ljunggren has designed for companies such as Skandiform, Johanson Design and Stolab.
For Skandiform, Ljunggren designed the chair Core in 2004 which received the Golden Chair Award for best product by Architects Sweden in 2005. In 2014, Ljunggren designed the chair Karlsö for Stolab, inspired by the traditional Swedish carver chair. Mattias Ljunggren has worked as an interior architect on several artistic projects, exhibitions at galleries and museums as well as the design of private and public environments.
Ljunggren has worked as a tutor in furniture design at the Royal Institute of Design and was member of the board of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and sits on the board of Svensk Form’s Copyright Panel. As a furniture designer he is represented at Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm, the Röhsska Museeum of Arts and Crafts in Gothenburg, the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen and the Museum of Decorative Art and Design in Oslo.
