Mekano by Ingela Håkansson Lamm

Meeting by Ingela Håkansson Lamm

Mekano and Meeting

By Ingela Håkansson Lamm

Widely known for her work as a textile designer, Ingela Håkansson Lamm in the mid 1990s also began to experiment with print on paper. During the course of a year, Håkansson Lamm together with the artist and writer Dan Backman, worked with serigraph printing at the Artists’ Collective Workshop in Stockholm (Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad). This resulted in a number of serigraphs by Backman and Håkansson Lamm that were exhibited at Tomelilla Konsthall in the south of Sweden in August 1998. Some of Håkansson Lamm’s exhibited motifs had originally been designed as patterns for 10-gruppen, such as Mecanique (1994) and Meeting (1995). Mecanique – renamed Mekano – drew inspiration from the post-war works of French artist Fernand Léger and was a part of the collection Hommage. Meeting had been made for the collection Happy Birthday and features “dots” which has always been the natural starting point in Håkansson Lamm’s creative process.

Ingela Håkansson Lamm (Swedish b.1944) studied textile design at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design. After graduating in 1968 she worked at the renowned trend bureau Mafia in Paris before becoming one of the founding members of the influential Swedish design collective 10-gruppen (1970–2015). While many of Håkansson Lamm’s graphic and abstract patterns can be found in the collections of 10-gruppen, there are a number of textile and wallpaper designs made for producers such as DURO, IKEA and Borås Wäfveri. Håkansson Lamm has also been commissioned to do large scale public works for the city of Stockholm, such as The District Court (1989) and Hagastaden (2015), and her work is represented in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Malmö Museum and Röhsska museet – Museum of Design and Craft.