Ingegerd Råman

Ingegerd Råman was born in Stockholm in 1943, trained under Carl Malmsten at Capellagården on Öland, then at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, with a year in Faenza studying ceramic chemistry. In 1967 she established a pottery in her own home in Skåne, southern Sweden, where she still keeps a studio, alongside one on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm.

Her work moves between ceramics and glass. She was a designer at Johansfors from 1968 to 1972, at Skruf from its 1981 reopening — where she created the Bellman range, still in production — and at Orrefors for thirteen years from the late 1990s. Now freelance, she describes her work as a link between simplicity, function and aesthetic values, and has worked with architect Gert Wingårdh on the Swedish Embassy in Washington and the Aula Medica at the Karolinska Institute.