Scandinavian Design The United States 1890 1980

Author : Bobbye Tigerman,Monica Obniski
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783791359168

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Scandinavian Design & the United States, 1890-1980 by Bobbye Tigerman,Monica Obniski Pdf

This stunning book examines design exchanges between the United States and Scandinavia over nearly a century and explores the fascinating reasons why Scandinavian design has continued to resonate with Americans. Focusing on the extensive influence of Scandinavian design in the United States, this book shows how Nordic ideas about modern design and the objects themselves had an indelible impact on American culture and material life. It also considers America's influence on Scandinavian design, showing how cultural exchange is mutual by nature. In addition to familiar material like Danish furniture and Swedish glass, readers will learn about America's little-known "Viking Revival" style; the work of Howard Smith, an African-American artist who immigrated to Finland in the 1960s; and the myriad ways Scandinavian toys and household goods helped shape American child-rearing practices. The perfect addition to any Danish modern coffee table, this elegant book traces how Scandinavian design became an integral part of what is considered "American design." Published with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Author : Kjetil Fallan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262047135

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Ecological by Design by Kjetil Fallan Pdf

How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement. Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of ecological design in Scandinavia at the height of the popular environmental movement, Fallan suggests, illuminates a little-known reciprocity between environmentalism and design: not only did design play a role in the rise of modern environmentalism, but ecological thinking influenced the transformation in design culture in Scandinavia and beyond that began as the modernist faith in progress and prosperity waned. Fallan describes the efforts of Scandinavian designers to forge an environmental ethics in a commercial design culture sustained by consumption; shows, by recounting a quest for sustainability through Norwegian wood(s), that one of the main characteristics of ecological design is attention to both the local and the global; and explores the emergence of a respectful and sustainable paradigm for international development. Case studies trace key connections to continental Europe, Britain, the US, Central America, and East Africa. Today, ideas of sustainability permeate design discourse, but the historical emergence of ecological design remains largely undiscussed. With this trailblazing book, Fallan fills that gap.

Author : Maggie Taft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780226550466

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The Chieftain and the Chair by Maggie Taft Pdf

A history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort. Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. During the 1950s and ‘60s, it flourished as the furniture choice for Americans who hoped to signal they were current and chic. But how did this happen? How did Danish Modern become the design movement of the times? In The Chieftain and the Chair, Maggie Taft tells the tale of our love affair with Danish Modern design. Structured as a biography of two iconic chairs—Finn Juhl’s Chieftain Chair and Hans Wegner’s Round Chair, both designed and first fabricated in 1949—this book follows the chairs from conception and fabrication through marketing, distribution, and use. Drawing on research in public and private archives, Taft considers how political, economic, and cultural forces in interwar Denmark laid the foundations for the postwar furniture industry, and she tracks the deliberate maneuvering on the part of Danish creatives and manufacturers to cater to an American market. Taft also reveals how American tastemakers and industrialists were eager to harness Danish design to serve American interests and how furniture manufacturers around the world were quick to capitalize on the fad by flooding the market with copies. Sleek and minimalist, Danish Modern has experienced a resurgence of popularity in the last few decades and remains a sought-after design. This accessible and engaging history offers a unique look at its enduring rise among tastemakers.

Author : Alexa Griffith Winton,Susan Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300266153

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A Dark, a Light, a Bright by Alexa Griffith Winton,Susan Brown Pdf

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century At the time of her death, Dorothy Liebes (1897-1972) was called "the greatest modern weaver and the mother of the twentieth-century palette." As a weaver, she developed a distinctive combination of unusual materials, lavish textures, and brilliant colors that came to be known as the "Liebes Look." Yet despite her prolific career and recognition during her lifetime, Liebes is today considerably less well known than the men with whom she often collaborated, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, and Edward Durrell Stone. Her legacy also suffered due to the inability of the black-and-white photography of the period to represent her richly colored and textured works. Extensively researched and illustrated with full-color, accurate reproductions, this important publication examines Liebes's widespread impact on twentieth-century design. Essays explore major milestones of her career, including her close collaborations with major interior designers and architects to create custom textiles, the innovative and experimental design studio where she explored new and unusual materials, her use of fabrics to enhance interior lighting, and her collaborations with fashion designers, including Clare Potter and Bonnie Cashin. Ultimately, this book reinstates Liebes at the pinnacle of modern textile design alongside such recognized figures as Anni Albers and Florence Knoll. Published in association with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Exhibition Schedule: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (July 7, 2023-February 4, 2024)

Author : Denise Hagströmer,Helena Kåberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 8281541377

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Scandinavian design & USA by Denise Hagströmer,Helena Kåberg Pdf

Author : Widar Halén,Kerstin Wickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015064990891

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Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth by Widar Halén,Kerstin Wickman Pdf

Author : Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353992

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Introduction to Nordic Cultures by Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Pdf

Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.

Author : Kjetil Fallan,Christina Zetterlund,Anders V. Munch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000736359

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Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980 by Kjetil Fallan,Christina Zetterlund,Anders V. Munch Pdf

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries. Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ‘Scandinavian Design’ to great acclaim in the 1950s, but in the discourses, institutions and practices formed in the aftermath of that oft-told success story, during the turbulent period between 1960 and 1980. This is achieved by employing multidisciplinary approaches to connect the domains of industrial production, marketing, consumption, public institutions, design educations, trade journals as well as public debates and civic initiatives forming a design culture. This book makes a significant contribution to current, international agendas of historiographical critique focusing on transnational relations and the deconstruction of national design histories. This book will be of interest to scholars in design, design history and Scandinavian studies.

Author : Kjetil Fallan,Christina Zetterlund,Anders V. Munch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Design
ISBN : 1003309321

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Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980 by Kjetil Fallan,Christina Zetterlund,Anders V. Munch Pdf

"Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries. Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design's contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as 'Scandinavian Design' to great acclaim in the 1950s, but in the discourses, institutions, and practices formed in the aftermath of that oft-told success story, during the turbulent period between 1960 and 1980. This is achieved by employing multidisciplinary approaches to connect the domains of industrial production, marketing, consumption, public institutions, design educations, trade journals as well as public debates and civic initiatives forming a design culture. This book makes a significant contribution to current, international agendas of historiographical critique focusing on transnational relations and the deconstruction of national design histories. This book will be of interest to scholars in design, design history, and Scandinavian studies"--

Author : Christopher Wilk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:49015001227561

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Marcel Breuer, Furniture and Interiors by Christopher Wilk Pdf

Author : Nordisk Ministerråd (Nordiska Ministerrådet / Nordic Council of Ministers)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488949713

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Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth by Nordisk Ministerråd (Nordiska Ministerrådet / Nordic Council of Ministers) Pdf

Author : Ulf Hård af Segerstad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : UCAL:B4363533

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Scandinavian Design by Ulf Hård af Segerstad Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969150

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Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Haldor Byrkjeflot,Lars Mjøset,Mads Mordhorst,Klaus Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000504033

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The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images by Haldor Byrkjeflot,Lars Mjøset,Mads Mordhorst,Klaus Petersen Pdf

This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Charlotte Fiell,Peter Fiell
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Design
ISBN : 3836544520

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Scandinavian Design by Charlotte Fiell,Peter Fiell Pdf

Scandtastic!: The best of design from northern Europe Scandinavians are exceptionally gifted in design. They are world-famous for their inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production. The marriage of beautiful organic forms with everyday functionality is one of the primary strengths of Scandinavian design and one of the reasons why Scandinavian creations are so cherished and sought after. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in-depth entries on over 180 designers and design-led companies, plus essays on the similarities and differences in approach between Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Also included is a list of important design-related places to visit for readers planning to travel to Scandinavia. Including: DESIGNERS Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Timo Sarpaneva, Hans Wegner, Tapio Wirkkala, Sigvard Bernadotte, Stig Lindberg, Ingeborg Lundin, Finn Juhl, and many others. COMPANIES Fritz Hansen, Artek, Le Klint, Gustavsberg, Iittala, Fiskars, Volvo, Saab, Orrefors, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Arabia, Marimekko, George Jensen, and many more.