Career
He "considered the rationalization of the home according to functionalist principles a debasement of its traditional role as an intimate place for gathering and repose". Malmsten has had a lasting influence on Swedish furniture design through the two schools he founded—the Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies, which has been a part of Linköping University since 2000, is situated on the island of Lidingö on the outskirts of Stockholm. The school had been situated in the city centre until 2009.
Malmsten"s second school, Capellagården, is located on the island of Öland in Vickleby.
lieutenant offers courses in textile craft and design, cabinet making, furniture design, interior carpentry, ceramics, and organic horticulture. Malmsten was the paternal grandfather of author Bodil Malmsten.