Matilda Lindstam Nilsson

Matilda Lindstam Nilsson is a furniture designer based in Småland, Sweden, after several years in Stockholm. She graduated from the Carl Malmsten School of Furniture Studies in Stockholm in 2023 with a bachelor in furniture design, after earlier studies in patternmaking, sewing and design at Tillskärarakademin and a foundation year in design at Ölands Folkhögskola.

She has worked as an in-house designer at IKEA of Sweden and continues there as a freelance designer, alongside her own practice Matilda Form & Design, which is open to collaborations. Her designs usually begin as hand sketches before being refined in 3D, and she likes to work directly in the material to let her hands find shapes; wood is her main material, with a parallel interest in fabrics and upholstered furniture for comfort and soft forms.