Scandinavian design
: alternative histories English ed.
Author
Additional Author(s)
Fallan, Kjetil
Publisher
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781474294027
Series
Subject(s)
DECORATIVE ARTS
INTERIOR DECORATION
SCANDINAVIA
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
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Abstract
Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian design are much more complex than this. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories presents a radically new assessment, a corrective to the persistent mythologies and reductive accounts of Scandinavian design.
The book brings together case studies from the early twentieth century to today. Drawn from fields as diverse as transport, engineering, packaging, photography, law, interiors, and corporate identity, these studies tell new or unfamiliar stories about the production, mediation and consumption of design. An alternative history is created, one much more alive to national and regional differences and to types of product.
Scandinavian Design analyses a century of design culture from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and, in so doing, presents a sophisticated introduction to Scandinavian design.
Physical Dimension
Number of Page(s)
1 online resource (xiv, 282 p.) :
Dimension
-
Other Desc.
ill.
Summary / Review / Table of Content
Front matter
1. Networks
2. Appropriations
3. Mediations
Epilogue
Back matter
