Hans-Agne Jakobsson

(1919-2009)

Hans-Agne Jakobsson, was a Swedish interior designer and furniture designer. He was particularly noted for his design of luminaries where many models have become collectors’ items.

He studied as an architect in Gothenburg and was employed after graduating as an industrial designer at General Motors. He was an assistant to Carl Malmsten and in 1951 he founded the company Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB in Markaryd. One of the Ifö Electric luminaries from the sixties was designed by Hans-Agne.