Project Manager
Due, NinaProject manager
Municipality of Gothenburg, Röhsska MuseumAmount granted
520 000 SEKYear
2017This project digitizes and makes available collections in the Röhsska Museum's archives. The aim is to enable design history research so that researchers and the public can study Schulz's activities as a designer, interior architect, writer and publicist. Today, Schulz is best remembered as the owner of Firma Boet, a long-established interior design firm in Gothenburg. Its heyday was in the 1920s and 1940s and the shop had few equivalents in Sweden. Many of Schulz's interiors were published in the magazine Boet, an influential monthly magazine in the fields of home decoration, crafts and art industry, published between 1927 and 1938. Schulz was the magazine's editor and he also published colleagues' designs, articles on design exhibitions and other coverage of the field. Several of the leading critics of the time contributed texts and, along with the journal of the Swedish Crafts Association, the journal Boet was an important forum for debate on design and interior design-related topics. For a period, Schulz also ran his own training program, Bo-studio, where young couples could train in home decoration. The project aims to make the legacy of Otto Schulz and Firma Boet - 1600 watercolors and Boet magazines - searchable on the Röhsska Museum's website. The content of the journal Boet is also made available through lectures and introduced articles published on the Röhsska Museum's website.