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Artistic installation in intarsia for a public healthcare environment
GLOBAL
GESTALTNING
Artist and designer-craftsman Patrik Lundborg from Gothenburg was commissioned by Region Dalarna to create works for the waiting rooms and entrances of the Radiology and Oncology wards at Falun University Hospital. His works combine different timber species and stained veneers with inlays of metal that reflect the light and create a subtle movement in the room. Abstract stones float along the walls, organic forms to sink into during a visit. For Radiology, he created mountain landscapes as freestanding framed works in the same technique.
Photography: Sara Danielsson & Gustafs
Where art meets care
The commission forms part of a new building constructed above the hospital’s accident and emergency department – an entirely new addition to Falun University Hospital, designed by Arkitema to complement the existing structure with light, modern spaces clad in white-pigmented oak and a restrained architectural language. Lundborg’s intarsia works brought colour and depth. The works were produced in collaboration between the artist and Gustafs, and meet fire safety class A2-s1,d0.
RADIOLOGY
Timber as canvas
Radiology is a ward in motion. Staff pass through, patients are called in, and in the waiting room many spend time with thoughts that can be heavy to carry. Lundborg has given the ward its character through freestanding intarsia works placed at several points along the ward.
In the waiting room, two works hang side by side: mountain landscapes with stones and trees in bold, clear colours. The veneer’s natural grain is visible across every surface, giving the motifs a materiality that no printed image can replicate. Outside in the corridor, on the wall facing the MRI suite, a panoramic work shows dramatic mountains in deep red and cobalt blue against a pink sky. It is a work visible from a distance, giving the corridor a clear anchor – something to fix the eye on amid the ordinary motion of a working ward.
Photo Sara Danielsson
Photo Sara Danielsson
Photo Sara Danielsson
ONKOLOGY
Precision at every joint
On the Oncology ward, Lundborg has worked with the character of the entire room rather than individual pieces. In the waiting room, a large intarsia motif runs directly within the white-pigmented oak wall – an open landscape of mountains, sky, and stones that flows outward and allows the wall’s own timber structure to become part of the motif. Around the room, smaller stones in intarsia are scattered along the walls: organic forms in different timber species and colours that give the space a quiet presence without demanding attention.
In the entrance, the same visual language meets visitors immediately on arrival. Here the stones are placed more freely and sparsely, as if moving through the room. It is a deliberate choice – that the art should be there without dominating, something to notice when you are ready.
Gemini Oak White
The background across all panels is Gemini Oak White – a veneer characterised by its consistent, pale surface. All panels sharing the same veneer gives the intarsia a clean, still ground to work against, like a blank page on which the motif can speak without competition from the wood’s natural variation.
DETAILS
PHOTO: Sara Danielsson
ARCHITECT: Arkitema
ARTIST: Patrik Lundborg
LOCATION: Falu lasarett, Falun, Sverige
WARDS: Radiology och Onkology
CLIENT: Region Dalarna
INSTALLATION: Gustafs
Veneer: Gemini Oak White
The complete commission
This project is part of a larger art commission at Falun University Hospital, ordered by Region Dalarna. Emma Löfström created a work for the ICU stairwell at the same time – the Dalälven running seamlessly across twelve intarsia panels over thirty square metres.
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How do you produce intarsia at architectural scale – seamlessly, to fire safety class A2-s1,d0, with two artists working directly alongside the craftspeople? This is the story of how the Falun University Hospital commission was made.
→ ARTICHLE: When craft met art
Alongside this commission, Emma Löfström created the artwork for the ICU stairwell, twelve intarsia panels forming a seamless motif across thirty square metres, also commissioned by Region Dalarna.
Installation
A panel crafted to millimetre precision deserves an installation carried out in the same spirit. It was Gustafs’ own installation team who fitted the panels on site, bringing the same expertise and the same standards that had run through the entire project. From the first cutting file to the last fixing, the work remained in Gustafs’ hands throughout.
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