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Scandinavian design : alternative histories / edited by Kjetil Fallan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Berg, 2012Edition: English editionDescription: xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1847889123
  • 9781847889126
  • 1847889115
  • 9781847889119
  • 0857852183
  • 9780857852182
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.40948 23
LOC classification:
  • NK1457 .S23 2012
Contents:
1. A Historiography of Scandinavian design / Christina Zetterlund -- Pt. 1. Networks -- 2. Whats worth copyingis worth protecting: applied art and the evolution of Danish Copyright Law / Stina Teilmann-Lock -- 3. Handwoven fabrics by the yard: unveiling the modern design industry of the Interwar Period / Leena Svinhufvud -- 4. Designing the Consumer in Infinity: the Swedish Cooperative Unions new consumer policy, c.1970 / Helena Mattsson -- 5. Designing a hole in the wall: the reverse vending machine as socio-technical system and environmental infrastructure / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Pt. 2. Appropriations -- 6. Just decoration? Ideology and design in early-twentieth-century Sweden / Christina Zetterlund -- 7. Goldfish memories: Recounting Oslos streamlined aluminium trams / Kjetil Fallan -- 8. Creature comforts: soft sofas and the demise of modernist morality in 1970s Finland / Minna Sarantola-Weiss -- 9. Jacob Jensen and the Lifa Kitchen: branding the lLifestyle kitchen with designer personality and mythology / Hans-Christian Jensen - Pt. 3. Mediations 10. Something old, something new, something stolen, something blue: designing a chocolate bar / Per Østby -- 11. Exhibitable furniture: interpreting images of design / Malene Breunig -- 12. The Advantages of being Swedish: Volvo in America / Jeff Werner -- 13. From policies to politics: Finnish design on the ideological battlefield in the 1960s and 1970s / Pekka Korvenmaa.
Summary: Examines the last century of Scandinavian design to reveal how the region's design culture is very different from popular assumption. A radical reappraisal of one of the most productive and influential design regions in the world. Examines Scandinavian design through a range of diverse examples, from sofas and trams to reverse vending machines and chocolate bars.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A Historiography of Scandinavian design / Christina Zetterlund -- Pt. 1. Networks -- 2. Whats worth copyingis worth protecting: applied art and the evolution of Danish Copyright Law / Stina Teilmann-Lock -- 3. Handwoven fabrics by the yard: unveiling the modern design industry of the Interwar Period / Leena Svinhufvud -- 4. Designing the Consumer in Infinity: the Swedish Cooperative Unions new consumer policy, c.1970 / Helena Mattsson -- 5. Designing a hole in the wall: the reverse vending machine as socio-technical system and environmental infrastructure / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Pt. 2. Appropriations -- 6. Just decoration? Ideology and design in early-twentieth-century Sweden / Christina Zetterlund -- 7. Goldfish memories: Recounting Oslos streamlined aluminium trams / Kjetil Fallan -- 8. Creature comforts: soft sofas and the demise of modernist morality in 1970s Finland / Minna Sarantola-Weiss -- 9. Jacob Jensen and the Lifa Kitchen: branding the lLifestyle kitchen with designer personality and mythology / Hans-Christian Jensen - Pt. 3. Mediations 10. Something old, something new, something stolen, something blue: designing a chocolate bar / Per Østby -- 11. Exhibitable furniture: interpreting images of design / Malene Breunig -- 12. The Advantages of being Swedish: Volvo in America / Jeff Werner -- 13. From policies to politics: Finnish design on the ideological battlefield in the 1960s and 1970s / Pekka Korvenmaa.

Examines the last century of Scandinavian design to reveal how the region's design culture is very different from popular assumption. A radical reappraisal of one of the most productive and influential design regions in the world. Examines Scandinavian design through a range of diverse examples, from sofas and trams to reverse vending machines and chocolate bars.

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