LM Ericssons byggnader Tulegatan, Industrial complex in Stockholm, Sweden.
LM Ericsson's buildings at Tulegatan occupy the Taktäckaren block, bounded by Tulegatan, Kungstensgatan, Döbelnsatan and Rehnsgatan. The main facade by Johan Laurentz, built 1896–1897, has arched ground-floor windows and portals, rounded corners and sandstone-dressed windows; the 1906 wing by Björn Harald Svensson uses yellow brick and a natural-stone base.
The facility was built starting in 1896 as the main production center for telecommunications equipment and shaped Stockholm's industrial growth. Operations relocated in 1939, but the buildings remained as monuments to that era of manufacturing.
The quarter names Taktäckaren and Grundläggaren belong to Stockholm's old craft-guild district names, listed on Petrus Tillaeus's 1733 map. Inside, the management's meeting room, fitted out 1901–1903, had two-storey ceilings, silk wallpapers and stucco putti flying with telephone cords and receivers; moved in 1976, it is now shown at Tekniska museet.
The complex occupies the Taktäckaren block, bounded by Tulegatan, Kungstensgatan, Döbelnsgatan and Rehnsgatan. The main Tulegatan front is the place to start: two large portals flank the former main entrance and lead into the rear courtyard. The 1940s facade changes removed the pediments, so compare the plainer street front with the yellow-brick wing at Rehnsgatan/Döbelnsgatan.
The meeting room of the company management, fitted out in 1901–1903, had a ceiling two storeys high and walls with silk wallpaper and stucco work on telegraphic themes: putti flying with telephone cables and receivers. After 1918 it served as a payroll office and workshop space, and in 1976 the interior was moved as "LM Ericssons minnesrum" to Tekniska museet.
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