Matti Klenell

Matti Klenell was born in 1972 and graduated in 1999 from the department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack in Stockholm, founding his studio the following year. Since then he has moved between craft, industrial and spatial design, with work that keeps a strong relation to architecture and a sense for place, origin and space: art projects and exhibitions sit beside products for serial production.

His clients include Iittala, Källemo, Offecct, Swedese, FontanaArte, Marimekko, Moooi and Muuto, and many pieces are held in museum collections in Sweden and abroad. In 2015 he took the art direction of the NM& collective that helped shape the new Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and has led projects such as A New Layer for the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute.