Astrid Sampe

{{Short description| Swedish textile designer (1909–2002)}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Astrid Sampe | honorific_suffix = HonRDI | image = Astridsampe.jpg | image_size = | alt = Astrid Sampe, approximately 1980 | caption = Astrid Sampe, approximately 1980 | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|05|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|01|01|1909|05|27|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = Astrid Sampe-Hultberg | residence = | education = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Konstfack, Stockholm|Royal College of Art, London}} | known_for = Textile design at Nordiska Kompaniet | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = {{unbulleted list |{{Awards|award=Gold Medal |year=1954 |name=Milan Triennale}} |{{Awards|Gregor Paulsson Trophy|1956}} |{{Awards|award=Silver Medal |year=1960 |name=Milan Triennale}}}} }}

'''Astrid Sampe''' (27 May 1909 – 1 January 2002)<ref name="VemArDet,1963">{{cite book |title=Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok |date=1963 |publisher=Kungl. Boktryckeriet P.A. Norstedt & Söners |location=Stockholm |page=934 |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1963/0950.html |access-date=12 February 2019 |language=Swedish |chapter=Sampe, Ann Astrid}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Astrid Sampe |url=http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=2879 |website=National Museum Collection |accessdate=12 February 2019}}</ref> was a Swedish textile designer who for a large part of her professional life was affiliated with the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet but also worked for several other textile producers.<ref name="DesignArkivet">{{cite web |title=Astrid Sampe |url=https://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/designarkivet/designers/astrid-sampe/ |website=Design Arkivet |accessdate=12 February 2019 |language=sv-SE}}</ref>

Sampe studied at Konstfack in Stockholm and later at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1935, she started working as a designer for Nordiska Kompaniet. In 1937 she became head of Nordiska Kompaniet's textile design department (''Textilkammaren'') and remained so until 1971.<ref name="DesignArkivet"/> She produced a number of influential designs and also connected many successful designers, architects and artists to Nordiska Kompaniet's textile department. Among these people are Danish designer Arne Jacobsen and Swedish designers Viola Gråsten<ref>{{cite web |last1=von Platen |first1=Jenny |title=Viola Hildegard Gråsten |url=https://skbl.se/en/article/ViolaGrasten |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |accessdate=12 February 2019 |translator=Grosjean, Alexia}}</ref> and Stig Lindberg.<ref name="Ericsson1996">{{cite book |last1=Ericsson |first1=Anne-Marie |title=The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry |date=1996 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0300070055 |pages=62–63 |chapter=The Emergence of Swedish Modern Design, 1917–1937 |editor1=Ostergard, Derek E. |editor2=Stritzler-Levine, Nina}}</ref> When the textile department closed in 1971, Astrid Sampe retired from Nordiska Kompaniet and established her own studio in Stockholm.<ref name="DesignArkivet"/>

She was very successful at the World Fairs in Paris 1937 and in New York 1939.<ref name="Cranbrook">{{cite web |title=Astrid Sampe Collection of Eero Saarinen Correspondence |url=http://www.cranbrook.edu/sites/default/files/ftpimages/120/misc/misc_84097.pdf |website=Cranbrook Archives |accessdate=12 February 2019}}</ref> For the exhibition in New York she worked on the design of the Swedish Pavilion together with the architect Sven Markelius.<ref name="Ericsson1996"/>

Astrid Sampe was an innovative designer who designed modern textiles for industrial production while still preserving and extending the traditions of Nordic textile design. She was the first designer in Sweden to experiment with fibreglass cloth<ref>{{cite web |title=Astrid Sampe |url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18045553/bio |website=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=13 February 2019}}</ref> and to use data-based or computer-generated patterns. In 1955 she produced several designs for domestic linens with geometric patterns and folk-inspired motifs that became a huge success.<ref name="DesignArkivet"/> Astrid Sampe designed products for a number of Swedish textile companies such as Kasthall and Almedahls, and her designs include ''Liljerand'', ''Liljeruta'', and ''Versailles''. She also designed for Knoll International in New York and Donald Brothers in Dundee.<ref name="Cranbrook"/> Some of her textiles are still in production.

In 1948, Astrid Sampe co-wrote the book ''Textiles Illustrated'' (in Swedish: ''Textil bilderbok'') with Vera Diurson.<ref name="VemArDet,1963"/> In 1949, she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Designers for Industry in London.<ref name="DesignArkivet"/> She was awarded a gold medal at the 1954 Milan Triennale, and a silver medal at the 1960 Triennale.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hiesinger |editor1-first=Kathryn B. |editor2-last=Marcus |editor2-first=George H. |title=Design Since 1945 |date=1983 |publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art |page=[https://archive.org/details/designsince194500hies/page/229 229] |url=https://archive.org/details/designsince194500hies |accessdate=12 February 2019 |chapter=Biographies of Designers}}</ref> In 1956, she received the Gregor Paulsson Trophy.

== References == {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2002). ''Scandinavian Design''. Köln: Taschen. *Atle Bjarnestam, Eva (2005). ''De formade 1900-talet. Design A-Ö''. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur. * {{SKBL}}

==External links== {{commons}} * [http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/sampe-astrid/A2371/ Work in the V&A collection]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sampe, Astrid}} Category:1909 births Category:2002 deaths Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art Category:Swedish designers Category:Swedish textile designers Category:People from Stockholm

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