Pierre Forssell was a student at Konstfack's metal department between 1943 and 1949, when he received his journeyman's certificate. Erik Fleming was his teacher and mentor. Between 1952 and 1960, Forssell taught metal at Konstfack. He was involved in building up contacts between Konstfack and industry. Forssell was also involved in the Slöjdföreningens Facksektion. From 1953 to 1965 he was a designer at Gense. In 1956 he succeeded Erik Fleming as designer at Skultuna, in the aluminum cookware department. During the fifties he taught at the handicraft teacher seminar in Nääs and he was involved in setting up the handicraft teacher seminar in Linköping in 1960. Some brass products that he made for Skultuna in the 1950s led to a job at the brass factory there in 1965. Forssell was given a free hand to renew Skultuna's brass production. A rich and very special world of forms is now emerging. Basic stereometric shapes in brass: balls, spheres, cones, dice, cubes, cylinders, etc. become vases, candlesticks and boxes. Forssell worked there until he retired in 1986. His brass has experienced a renaissance in recent years and has been shown in several exhibitions, most recently at the Västerås Art Museum. While working on the book, I had access to Pierre Forssell's archive, which is in the family's possession. The photographs in the book are partly taken by him and most of them have not been published before.