Henriette Killander

{{short description|Swedish furniture designer and music composer}}

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Henriette Killander (1816–1898), was a Swedish furniture designer and music composer.Maria Amalia Gustava Planck, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/AmaliaPlanck, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article on Brita Planck), accessed 2020-07-12.

She was born to justice minister baron Lars Herman Gyllenhaal and Henrika Lovisa Ulrika Tham (1791–1816) and married in 1838 to an official of the royal court, Johan Fredrik Killander (1811–1899). The couple lived on the Hooks manor outside Jönköping.

She is known as the designer of the immensely popular chair model pinnstol, which she designed after being inspired by the Windsor chair which she had brought home after a trip to USA,Lasse Brunnström: [https://books.google.com/books?id=h1twDwAAQBAJ&dq=Henriette+Killander&pg=PA21 Swedish Design: A History], 2018 and then had made by the carpenter Daniel Ljungquist in Svenarum in the 1850s, which inspired major chair industry in Småland.Kersti Holmquist (1969). Gösta Berg. red. ”Översikter och granskningar”. RIG - kulturhistorisk tidskrift (Stockholm: Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria) (2): sid. 91. ISSN 0035-5267

She also composed the song and piano music Jag icke någon vällust känner, which was included in the ”Åtskilliga sångstycken med accompagnement af pianoforte” (literary: 'Several Pieces of Songs for the Fortepiano').”Inventering hösten 2012 av kvinnliga tonsättares verk i MTB:s raritetssamlingar”. Läst 14 november 2017.