CHRIS LILJENBERG HALSTRØM
From HÅNDVÆRK bookazine no. 14
April 2026
The designer and artist CHRIS LILJENBERG HALSTRØM is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy.
As a designer, she has successfully designed furniture for the Danish firms Skagerak (now Fritz Hansen) – which produced the Vester chair (featured in the bookazine in article about Svinkløv Badehotel) – the Table Project and A. Petersen as well as the American firm Design Within Reach.
From 2022 to 2025, she was a member of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Craft and Design Project Funding.
Despite her success as a designer, she generally prefers spending her time embroidering textile works of art by hand, stitch by stitch. She exhibits these pieces in art galleries in both Europe and the United States.
Embroidery is a return to her earliest expression. She has photos of herself as a preschooler working with needle and thread. It is also a quiet – and slow – manifestation in a time when it is difficult to justify the rapid pace of the design industry, the many launches and the lack of willingness to do what design is supposed to do: develop practical and aesthetic improvements in a sustainable way with a long-term perspective.
CHRIS LILJENBERG HALSTRØM er designer og kunstner, uddannet på Det Kongelige Akademi.
Som designer har hun med succes tegnet møbler for blandt andre danske Skagerak (nu Fritz Hansen), for eksempel stolen Vester (vist i bookazine 14 i artikel om Svinkløv Badehotel), for The Table Project, A. Petersen og amerikanske Design Within Reach.
I perioden 2022-2025 var hun medlem af Statens Kunstfonds Projektstøtteudvalg for Kunsthåndværk og Design.
På trods af sin succes som designer foretrækker hun langt hen ad vejen at bruge sin tid på at brodere tekstile værker i hånden – sting for sting. Værker, som hun udstiller i kunstgallerier både i Europa og USA.
At brodere er en tilbagevenden til hendes første udtryk; hun har billeder af sig selv i førskolealderen med nål og tråd i hånden. Det er også en stille – langsom – manifestation i en tid, hvor det er vanskeligt at retfærdiggøre designbranchens hastige tempo, mange lanceringer og manglende lyst til at gøre det, design egentlig er beregnet til: at forbedre praktisk og æstetisk på en bæredygtig og langsigtet måde.
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