Title & Author:

Modern Swedish design : three founding texts / by Uno Åhrén [and six others] ; edited and with introductions by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, and Barbara Miller Lane ; essay by Kenneth Frampton.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2008]
©2008

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-349) and index.
General introduction / Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, and Barbara Miller Lane -- The untimely timeliness of Swedish modernism / Kenneth Frampton -- An introduction to Ellen Key's "Beauty in the home" / Barbara Miller Lane -- Beauty in the home / Ellen Key -- An introduction to Gregor Paulsson's Better things for everyday life / Helena Kåberg -- Better things for everyday life / Gregor Paulsson -- An introduction to "acceptera" / Lucy Creagh -- acceptera / Uno Åhrén [and others].

Summary:

"Modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, yet the generative writings on the subject have never been widely translated. This book presents three founding texts on the subject, translated here for the first time into English."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780870707223
0870707221

Subject:

Design Sweden 20th century.
Design Suède 20e siècle.
Design.
Vormgeving.
Design Sweden.
Designers Sweden.
Design Sverige.
Folkhemmet historia Sverige 1900-talet.
Modernism Sverige.
Sweden.
Schweden
Zweden (land)

Added entries:

Åhrén, Uno, 1897-1977.
Creagh, Lucy.
Kåberg, Helena.
Lane, Barbara Miller.
Frampton, Kenneth.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261853
Call No.: BIB 192900
Status: Available