Scandinavian Design the United States 1890 1980

Scandinavian Design   the United States  1890 1980
Author: Bobbye Tigerman,Monica Obniski
Publsiher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9783791359168

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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

Ecological by Design

Ecological by Design
Author: Kjetil Fallan
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047135

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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.

The Chieftain and the Chair

The Chieftain and the Chair
Author: Maggie Taft
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780226550466

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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.

A Dark a Light a Bright

A Dark  a Light  a Bright
Author: Alexa Griffith Winton,Susan Brown
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780300266153

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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)

Scandinavian design USA

Scandinavian design   USA
Author: Denise Hagströmer,Helena Kåberg
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 8281541377

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Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth

Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth
Author: Widar Halén,Kerstin Wickman
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007
Genre: Design
ISBN: PSU:000059102489

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Raymor

Raymor
Author: Michael Kaplan
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0692900942

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Raymor: Modern in the Tradition of Good Taste contains an insightful and incisive interview with Raymor founder Irving Richards, a pioneer in merchandising mid-20th century design for the home. To illustrate the breadth of the Raymor concept, included is a complete 1952 company catalog featuring early work by noted designers Arne Jacobsen, Michael Lax, Paul McCobb, George Nelson, Tony Paul, Ben Seibel, Arthur Umanoff, Hans Wegner and others.

Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960 1980

Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation  1960   1980
Author: Kjetil Fallan,Christina Zetterlund,Anders V. Munch
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781000736359

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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.