The daughter of the engineer Harald Hall and Maria Rodd, Hall grew up in a family of four children in St Petersburg, Russia. She later moved to Gothenburg where she matriculated from the
Gymnasium för flickor (girls high school) in 1919. After an internship in Hans Hedlund's studio, she studied architecture at Chalmers, taking the architecture examination in 1922. She went on to study history of art under
Axel Romdahl until 1925. While at Chalmers, she provided support for female students, becoming secretary for
Göteborgs Kvinnliga Studentförenging (Gothenburg's Women Student's Association). From 1924 to 1927, she worked as an architect at Gothenburg's Engineering Office. She also made study trips to Germany, Lithuania and Estonia. Hall designed numerous private homes as well as the Swedish pavilion for the International Trade Industry Exhibition in
Brasa near
Riga in Latvia. In 1928, she married the furniture designer Per Hilding Eklund (1895–1936) and moved to
Bispgården in
Ragunda Municipality. She worked in the family's furniture manufacturing business, Firma P.A. Eklund Snickerfabrik, where she and her husband designed furniture in the Rococo style. Their creations included chairs, sofas, stools, desks and bookshelves. Margit Hall died of cancer when she was only 35 on 30 May 1937 in Bispgården. ==References==