Fast facts MMF AB

The now legendary weaving studio MMF AB was founded in 1919 by the textile artist Märta Måås-Fjetterström who ran the
business until her death in 1941, which was followed by a turbulent period when the art weaving studio was threatened by
closure but saved by a group of leading personalities in the field of culture, including the designer Carl Malmsten and
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, who in 1942 formed the limited company Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB. Since 2001 the weaving
studio is owned by the Stockholm-based recruitment company CV Search AB. Today, 13 art weavers are employed by the
weaving studio. Since 2002, MMF AB selects an artist to design the Textile of the Year. 2006 saw the launch of the Future
Collection SPECTROGRAM by the architects Claesson Koivisto Rune. In 2009, Märta Måås-Fjetterström celebrated its
90th anniversary with the exhibition Märta Flies Again! at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm. In 2010 Olafur Eliasson has
created the Textile of the Year for Märta Måås-Fjetterström – The green glass carpet.

FACTS MÄRTA MÅÅS-FJETTERSTRÖM AB:

1919 The textile artist Märta Måås-Fjetterström establishes her weaving studio in Båstad.

1930 The studio receives much attention at the Stockholm Exhibition and Märta Måås-Fjetterström is met with great interest
by the press and the public.

1934 Märta Måås-Fjetterström participates in an exhibition at Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm and receives her major breakthrough.

1941 Märta Måås-Fjetterström dies at the age of 68. The weaving studio is threatened by closure as there are no heirs.

1942 A group of leading personalities in the field of culture, including Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, designer Carl Malmsten
and the director of Nationalmuseum Erik Wettergren save the prestigious weaving studio and form a limited company,
Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB.

1942 Barbro Nilsson takes over as artistic director, managing the studio until her retirement in 1970.

1970-75 Kaisa Melanton is artistic director.

1980s-1990s A number of commissions for special compositions are produced for public institutions such as Prince Eugen's
Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Växjö Cathedral, the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University, and
companies such as Astra and Peab.

1999-2000 Nini Sandström’s rug Kungamattan is woven. The rug is a gift from the Swedish Government to King Carl XVI Gustaf
on his 25th anniversary on the throne.

2001 The recruitment company CV Search AB buys Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB and art weaver Angelica Persson becomes CEO.

2002 Marie-Louise Ekman is selected as the Artist of the Year to design a unique artwork to be woven in a single copy.

2003 Elis Ernst Eriksson is selected as the Artist of the Year for his strong commitment to contemporary social issues and his ability to provoke.

2004 Jockum Nordström is selected as the Artist of the Year for his uncompromising work in which he constantly moves in the interface of drawing, collage and painting.

2005 Maria Miesenberger is selected as the Artist of the Year, as she "displays interesting meetings where a flora of patterns, closely related to the rich imagery of the Orient, co-exists with a rather more in-depth exploration of the patterns of the individual body".

2006 Charlotte Gyllenhammar is selected as the Artist of the Year "for a body of work, which, in a variety of media, has the ability to depict a personal and universal living space, in which childhood and the family’s shrinking life space is contrasted with society’s politically charged space which stands our human condition on end."

2006 The architects Claesson Koivisto Rune designs the Future Collection SPECTROGRAM, a series of new flat weave rugs inspired by sound, for MMF AB.

2007 Jens Fänge is selected as the Artist of the Year. His textile artwork Upstairs is acquired by the National Public Art Council Sweden and placed in the Swedish Cabinet Office.

2008 MMF Showroom opens at Sibyllegatan 19, Stockholm.

2008 Cecilia Edefalk is selected as the Artist of the Year for her "consistent and explorative imagery of specially selected themes" and produces the textile artwork Double White Venus.

2009 MMF, the studio of textile art, celebrates its 90th anniversary with a major exhibition at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm.
H M Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is selected as the Artist of the Year and designs the pile rug Kustlandskap.

2010 The internationally renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is selected to produce the design for the
2010 Textile of the Year. The green glass carpet sees its light.

Today 10 art weavers work at the studio.

For further information, please contact:
Angelica Persson, CEO Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB,
Agardhsgatan 9, SE-269 33 BåSTAD, tel and fax: +46 (0)431-701 83
E-mail: angelica.persson@mmf.se