The picture of Bruno in his school cap was propably taken around 1920. After six years of elementary school, Bruno began Värnamo´s four year intermediate school. He never liked school and after three years, he asked his parents if he could stop.

One reason to stop propably was the work-shop in the newly-built house at Tånnögatan 17. After school, Bruno worked full-time in the work-shop, and there he obtained a solid knowledge about the characteristics and possibilities of wood.

In the middle of the 1930´s, Bruno came into contact with the physical culture. In connection to that he began to sleep outdoors. For that purpose, a special place was prepared in connection to his studio, located in the garden at Tånnögatan.

He developed a outdoor-bed with hore-hair insulation, in wich he could sleep from May to November.

In 1930, Värnamo hosted an Arts and Crafts exhibition where the Karl Mathsson workshop showed a baroque-style chair worked on by Bruno Mathsson. The chair won him a scholarship giving him later that year the opportunity to visit the exhibition in Stockholm which saw the launch of the Swedish functionalist movement. The inspiration gained from the exhibition, together with his reading of the books and magazines lent by Gustaf Munthe led him to the new style he had been searching for.

He was presented with the opportunity to put his theories into practice the following year with a commission to design a new chair for Värnamo Hospital. His ideas for designing a comfortable chair without traditional sprung up-holstery led to an unusual solution.The chair, named the Grasshopper by the hospital staff, was made with a seat frame covered with plaited webbing supported by arms and legs in solid birch.

Bruno Mathsson continued to develop his ideas and in 1936, he was given the chance to show his designs to a wider audience when the Röhsska Arts and Craft Museum invited him to exhibit his work. He unveiled a series of chairs that became known as the working easy and loungechair model 36. These chairs had separate bent laminated feet supporting a one piece frame covered with plaited webbing.

The exhibition at Gothenburg was the breakthrough that was to propel the young designer onto a wider scene. As early as 1937 he was represented at the world exhibition Paris Expo with a number of furniture, for example this bed that got the name Paris. This bed was made out of bent laminated wood, with plaited webbing and a cushion with horse hair filling. For this bed, Bruno Mathsson got a Grand Prix.

At this time, no professional photographers was used. Bruno Mathsson was very intereseted in photographing and took the pictures needed himself. To get an even illumination, the pictures was taken outdoors in the garden. The background was then removed before use.

In 1939, Bruno Mathsson was represented at two exhibitions in USA. In San Francisco, from where this postcar is, and in New York.