The multifaceted designer Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska (b. 1983 in France, based in France and Poland) will participate in the residency from May 15 to June 15, 2026, residing and working in a house from 1955 in Värnamo designed by architect and furniture designer Bruno Mathsson (1907-88), commissioned by Vandalorum’s founder Sven Lundh. The residency offers Jeglinska-Adamczewska the opportunity to explore the extensive furniture and manufacturing industry in the Jönköping region, studying Bruno Mathsson's work and delivering a public lecture at the Vandalorum Museum of Art and Design.

Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska says about the residency: "I feel honoured and humbled to be the recipient of the 2026 Bruno Mathsson Design Residency. From this immersion, I aim to observe, reflect, research on the architecture of the house, integrating my roles as furniture and exhibition designer. This period will deepen my understanding of natural materials and regional production techniques available in the Jönköping area, while also gaining a closer insight into Mathsson’s vision. Engaging with Scandinavian design culture and regional craftsmanship will challenge and inspire my practice, fostering a continuation of the legacy of human-centered, material-sensitive design that Mathsson so eloquently embodied.”

Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska graduated from ECAL’s Industrial Design program in 2007 and received a scholarship from the IKEA Foundation, which led her to work for Galerie kreo in Paris, Konstantin Grcic in Munich and Alexander Taylor in London. She works across a wide range of commissions, including industrial design, exhibition design, as well as research-based projects in the field of design. Her clients include, among others, Ligne Roset, Kvadrat, Vitra, the London Design Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. From 2018 until 2020 she served as the Creative Director of Arena Design, a design fair in Poland. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and has been shown at the Design Museum in London, the Villa Noailles, Barbican Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou-Metz and Triennale di Milano. In 2022, The Little Black Chair was acquired by the Vitra Design Museum for its permanent collection. In October 2012 she curated and designed the exhibition Ways Of Seeing/Sitting at the Łódź Design Festival in Poland. She was also the co-curator and designer of the Polish Pavilion at the inaugural London Design Biennale in 2016. In 2025 she co-founded the design brand GestGest.

^{Photos:
Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska, photo: Kasia Bobula
Arco armchair and table in solid cherry wood commissioned by AHEC in collaboration with Benchmark and the Design Museum (2020), photo: David Cleveland
The Little Black Armchair (2014), photo: Turczynska for Culture
My Canvas, backgrounds in canvas textile commissioned by Kvadrat (2017), photo: Casper Sejersen}