Sigurdur Gustafsson studied at the Oslo School of architecture from where he graduated in 1990. From 1991-92 Gustafsson worked at Cullberg Architects in Gothenburg and at the Teiknistofan in Reykjavik. In 1995 he set up his own architectural and design studio in Iceland, and two years later he began working with the Swedish company Källemo for whom he among other objects designed the chair Tango in 1998. Tango was only made in 49 copies, of which one is a part of the collection at the Museum for Furniture Studies.
Other known furniture Gustafsson designed for Källemo are the chair Copy and paste, the sofa Keflavik, the shelf Skyscraper, the rocking chair Rock’n Roll and the lamp Take Away. Gustafsson has won several architectural contests, such as the design for an elementary school in Reykjavik 1996. He has been exhibited at museums all over the world and in 2001 Gustafsson received the Bruno Mathsson Prize for “furniture art, that continues to offer unexpected encounters between the conventional the playful and the irrational.”
Sigurdur Gustafsson is represented at the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm, the Museum of Design and Applied Art in Reykjavik and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
