Bo Westerdahl
Some designers begin with a sketch. Bo Westerdahl has spent much of his career working that way, with pencil and paper, occasionally turning to small wooden models to explore an idea before it becomes a piece of furniture.
Born in Sweden, Westerdahl studied furniture design and cabinetmaking at Carl Malmsten's school in Stockholm. He later continued his studies in Prague and worked in London before establishing his own design practice in 1975. His career has moved between furniture design, product development and creative direction, always with an interest in how an idea takes shape and reaches the people who will use it.
Bo Westerdahl is the designer of Boss, a series of cabinets.
For more than four decades, Westerdahl worked closely with Swedish furniture retailer Mio, designing furniture and contributing to everything from store concepts to catalogues and exhibitions. It was a broad role, one that brought design into conversation with production, presentation and everyday life.
For Fogia, Westerdahl designed the Boss series, a family of cabinets and sideboards where the construction is deliberately straightforward. Solid wood, clean lines and carefully balanced proportions give the pieces their character. Different sizes and configurations allow Boss to serve different spaces and needs, while its restrained details let the material do much of the talking.
Across his work, Westerdahl has maintained a close relationship with the practical side of making furniture. From the first pencil line to the finished object, he understands design as a process in which function, material and construction belong together.