# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yngve-ekstrom
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:50.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yngve-ekstrom"
name: "Yngve Ekström"
slug: "yngve-ekstrom"
description: "Yngve Ekström was a Swedish furniture designer, wood carver, sculptor and architect and an important figure in the evolution of the Scandinavian Modernism movement. Yngve Ekström is best known for the \"Lamino\" armchair, an ergonomic and minimalist easy chair that he designed in 1956 and which has been in continuous production ever since. In 1999, the \"Lamino\" was named by the influential Swedish magazine Sköna hem as the Swedish furniture design of the twentieth century."
tagline: "Swedish architect and designer (1913–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yngve_Ekstroem.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1913-06-16"
deathDate: "1988-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.343305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngve_Ekstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Yngve Ekström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "ينغفي إكستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "ينجفى اكستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngve_Ekstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Yngve Ekström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngve_Ekstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Yngve Ekström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngve_Ekstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Yngve Ekström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngve_Ekstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Yngve Ekström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1490509"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump