Konsten att tämja trä: Gemla and the Swedish Furniture Industry (book, Swedish)

Gemla Fabriker in Diö, Småland, is Sweden's oldest furniture factory and has experienced most of the rise and development of the Swedish furniture industry. Konsten att tämja trä (The Art of Taming Wood) portrays, with insight and affection, the people and life of the mill town, the craft of steam-bending solid wood, the business and the products and their designers, from the mid-1800s to the present day.

It is a story marked by disastrous fires, bankruptcies and ever harder international competition, but also by passion for the craft, tradition and the local. The book includes Kerstin Wickman's history of the origins of bentwood, essays on design and cultural history by Sara Kristoffersson and glimpses of Swedish industrial history by Anders Houltz. Petter Eklund portrays the town of Diö, its people and craft. In Swedish.