TY - BOOK AU - Fallan,Kjetil TI - Scandinavian design: alternative histories SN - 1847889123 AV - NK1457 .S23 2012 U1 - 745.40948 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Berg KW - Design KW - Scandinavia KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -