Louise Adelborg

Who was Louise Adelborg, the woman who managed to create a porcelain service for every Swedish home? At the age of 31, having qualified as an art teacher at what is now the Swedish College of Arts, Crafts and Design, she came into contact with Rörstrand in 1916 and began designing décor. At the end of the 1920s, Louise Adelborg began tackling the design of dinner services. Her service, with its wheat-ear pattern pressed in relief into the surface, was presented at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. She managed to convey the feeling of golden ears of wheat swaying in the wind and the smell of freshly baked bread. The grain of corn can be seen as a symbol of nourishment, prosperity and nature. Her visual expression was delicate, sober and consistent. Her slender, elegant monogram has now becom a symbol of Swedish Grace.