Swedish designer Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) is perhaps best known for his ceramics, but had a long and varied career in the decorative arts. In addition to pottery, Lindberg designed glass objects, illustrated children's books, and printed his distinctively whimsical patterns on textiles for Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), a prominent department store in Stockholm. Lindberg's Zulu, a colofrul mosaic of patterned lozenges and shields, takes its inspiration from African tribal arts but is clearly within the modernist, abstract design idiom of the 1950s.