‘Colors have always been an important part of how I look at the world ever since I was a small child’.

During Kajsa Aaronson’s early days she had selected moments with an old lady, a friend of the family, who taught her in lace-making. She was the one who showed and invited her into the material of textiles - until then an unknown universe for her as handcraft and practical skills didn't exist in her own family. Knitting, weaving and basic art studies took Kajsa Aronsson to the Swedish School of Textile in Borås and a degree in Textile Design.

After she finished her education she worked at Kasthall, a well-known Swedish carpet and rug company. That gave her a great knowledge of manufacturing production, weaving techniques, hand-tufting as well as knowledge of designing a collection versus custom made objects. She then moved to Stockholm and started her own business as a freelance designer 15 years ago.

Kajsa Aronsson has been working with textile design for Swedish companies as IKEA, Frösö Handtryck, Ludvig Svensson, Svensk Slöjd AB and also designs several unique pieces for Churches. She has shared a courtyard studio in Stockholm for many years with Katarina Andersson (product designer) and Caroline Lindholm (silversmith) and they have followed each other’s work at close quarters. Using regular development appraisals, they have opened up the often lonely creative process.

Last summer they decided to start a company together and HAPPYsthlm was born.

‘I love the thing when one of us in HAPPYsthlm mention any kind of idea and how we out of that first thought develop ten ideas of new objects’. A total different side of her work is to sit and paint a full scale pattern for textile print. Slow and peaceful. 

All important aspects to give the creative work a fair chance to survive outside the studio. Kajsa Aaronson’s personal textile idols are Carl Johan de Geer (Swedish designer / author / multi-artist / film director -founder and former member of the design group "10 Swedish designers”) and Maija Isola (the queen of the 60s at the Finish brand Marimekko)

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