Björn Trägårdh had studied at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design before he became a student of architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1926 to -29.
In the early 1930’s, Trägårdh was the most prolific furniture designer of Estrid Ericsson’s Svenskt Tenn. In 1932 Svenskt Tenn was invited to the Röhsska Museum of Craft and Design to show their functionalistic interiors. One of the pieces by Trägårdh shown at the exhibition was an almost cubistic armchair and foot stool in a coffee-colored fabric.
In 1936 Trägårdh left Svenskt Tenn and three years later he moved to Paris where he founded a company that produced artistic buttons and jewelry for several French fashion houses. Trägårdh also studied art at Académie Julien in Paris, and later devoted himself completely to painting.
He is represented as an artist and furniture designer at a.o. the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Furniture Studies, and the Modern Museum in Stockholm as well as several museums in France.
