Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska awarded Bruno Mathsson Design Residency 2026

Vandalorum and Region Jönköping County are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2026 Bruno Mathsson Design Residency is the designer Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska.

The multifaceted designer Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska (b. 1983 in France, based in France and Poland) will participate in the residency from May 15 to June 15, 2026, residing and working in a house from 1955 in Värnamo designed by architect and furniture designer Bruno Mathsson (1907-88), commissioned by Vandalorum’s founder Sven Lundh. The residency offers Jeglinska-Adamczewska the opportunity to explore the extensive furniture and manufacturing industry in the Jönköping region, studying Bruno Mathsson's work and delivering a public lecture at the Vandalorum Museum of Art and Design.

Statement of the jury
"Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska is a prolific designer who combines an interest in craft and making processes with a great formal sensitivity. Both in her work as a furniture and object designers, as well as in her spatial works, she is demonstrating her skills to use color in multiple ways and to draw inspirations from design history. She is at a point in her career where she has already gained international recognition, yet she can still profit of the opportunities that the Bruno Mathsson Design Residency can offer, especially by widening her research into crafts processes and manufacturing."

Jeglinska-Adamczewska says about the residency
"I feel honoured and humbled to be the recipient of the 2026 Bruno Mathsson Design Residency. From this immersion, I aim to observe, reflect, research on the architecture of the house, integrating my roles as furniture and exhibition designer. This period will deepen my understanding of natural materials and regional production techniques available in the Jönköping area, while also gaining a closer insight into Mathsson’s vision. Engaging with Scandinavian design culture and regional craftsmanship will challenge and inspire my practice, fostering a continuation of the legacy of human-centered, material-sensitive design that Mathsson so eloquently embodied.”

About Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska
Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska graduated from ECAL’s Industrial Design program in 2007 and received a scholarship from the IKEA Foundation, which led her to work for Galerie kreo in Paris, Konstantin Grcic in Munich and Alexander Taylor in London. She works across a wide range of commissions, including industrial design, exhibition design, as well as research-based projects in the field of design. Her clients include, among others, Ligne Roset, Kvadrat, Vitra, the London Design Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. From 2018 until 2020 she served as the Creative Director of Arena Design, a design fair in Poland. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and has been shown at the Design Museum in London, the Villa Noailles, Barbican Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou-Metz and Triennale di Milano. In 2022, The Little Black Chair was acquired by the Vitra Design Museum for its permanent collection. In October 2012 she curated and designed the exhibition Ways Of Seeing/Sitting at the Łódź Design Festival in Poland. She was also the co-curator and designer of the Polish Pavilion at the inaugural London Design Biennale in 2016. In 2025 she co-founded the design brand GestGest.

About Bruno Mathsson Design Residency
The Bruno Mathsson Design Residency is run by Region Jönköping County and Vandalorum Museum of Art and Design, with support from Region Jönköping County and Värnamo Municipality, in collaboration with the entrepreneur and collector Johan Sjöberg, Bruno Mathsson International, and the Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation.

The 2026 jury consists of: Dr. Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum; Jenny Nordberg, Designer; Magnus Jonsson, Culture Director, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping; Lennart Alves Gernes, Art and Design Developer, Region Jönköping County; and Elna Svenle, Museum Director of Vandalorum.

Photos:
1. Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska, photo: Kasia Bobula
2. Arco armchair and table in solid cherry wood commissioned by AHEC in collaboration with Benchmark and the Design Museum (2020), photo: David Cleveland
3. The Little Black Armchair (2014), photo: Turczynska for Culture
4. My Canvas, backgrounds in canvas textile commissioned by Kvadrat (2017), photo: Casper Sejersen
5. The house at Backegårdsgatan in Värnamo, Sweden. Designed by Bruno Mathsson in 1955, photo: Peo Olsson