Margot Barolo is a designer with a background from Beckmans and Konstfack and runs the design agency Margot Barolo AB.

Over the years, she has worked with some of Sweden's leading companies such as Klässbols Linneväveri, Svenskt Tenn, Iris Hantverk, Rörstrand/Fiskars, etc. The materials vary and the projects are what determine them. The most common are wood, ceramics and textiles.

She has long collaborated with Ulrika Mårtensson on many projects under Barolo/Mårtensson and together they are behind brands such as Knits By The Metre and Brave Production.

Margot has also driven production and delved into issues that have challenged the image of production, the Swedish art industry and our valuation of the creation of people and products in the book Brave New Production and the magazine Brave Magazine #2 as part of an artistic research project "No Innocent Objects".

She lectures and teaches at various design colleges and is an active board member of the Swedish Artists' Association. Barolo has been frequently consulted as an expert in recent years on issues related to small-scale production and entrepreneurship for design and artistic activities, as well as within process and project work.

Is now also program manager at Beckmans Design School at Form and in 2017 was acting CEO of Handarbetets Vänner.

“Linen has a strength and shine that survives generations, and weaving is an undervalued craft that is much more complex and difficult to understand and master than most disciplines.
As someone born and raised in the city, I am fascinated by anything that comes directly from nature – raw materials that can be used so immediately to achieve tangible results. Linen has a strength and shine that survives generations. And weaving is an undervalued craft that is much more complex and difficult to understand and master than most disciplines. Klässbols preserves a wealth of historical knowledge and has an impressive ability to adapt it to our modern times.”