Exhibition: Gunnar Magnússon ’61 – ‘78

An exhibition devoted to the Icelandic designer Gunnar Magnússon and his domestic furniture was opened in Museum of Design and Applied Art on the 11th. of February. Gunnar Magnússon was born in 1933 in Olafsfjördur in the North of Iceland and studied furniture design in Copenhagen in the early 1960s. He is one of Iceland’s most prolific furniture designers and also created numerous interiors for companies, banks and private persons. The table for the famous World Chess Championship between Spassky and Fischer, held in Reykjavik in 1972, was designed by him.

This is the first comprehensive show of Magnússon’s furniture and the first exhibition the museum devotes to one of Iceland’s design pioneers. Curator is art historian Ásdís Ólafsdóttir.