Carpet

Additional texteExhibition text: Torhamn’s rugs received attention at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition where modern art, architecture and design were presented to the wider Swedish public. She hand-knotted, in the traditional manner, but no Swedish textile artist had yet made rugs of such radical design. A purchase of tubular steel chairs from Bauhaus inspired her first rug. Here, the subject is the Swedish Amerikalinjen’s vessel and the rug is matter-of-factly signed with the artist’s initials.