Otto Schulz

Otto Schulz is born in Germany in 1882 and moves to Sweden in 1907.

He is considered as a Swedish interior designer, furniture designer, publisher, editor and owner of the renowned furniture and interior decoration firm BOET, which he started in Gothenburg in 1920s and ran for 30 years.

His company BOET was not just a furniture firm, it was also a showroom in which customers could be inspired. BOET was an inspiration centre as much as a store. In the 1920s he published the eponymous living magazine BOET, also as Platform for his own collection.
The magazine was at the time the most influential, in regular edition appearing magazine in Sweden and often included interviews with well-known designers and architects.

Schulz produced opulent upholstered furniture, as well as lavishly inlaid, decorative Box furniture between functionalism and traditionalism. It was very modern – and at the same time often inspired by older styles such as late baroque. He had some of his own invented techniques patented, among them the use of decorative nails as part of the design, a technique called “Bopoint”.