Epilogue / Kjetil Fallan. From policies to politics : Finnish design on the ideological battlefield in the 1960s and 1970s / Kjetil Fallan ...[et al.] -- Networks. 'What's worth copying is worth protecting' : applied art and the evolution of Danish copyright law / Stina Telllmann-Lock -- Handwoven fabrics by the yard : unveiling the modern design industry in the interwar period / Leena Svinhufvud -- Designing the 'consumer in infinity' : the Swedish Cooperative Union's new consumer policy, c.1970 / Helena Mattsson -- Designing a hole in the wall : the reverse vending machine as socio-technical system and environmental infrastructure / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Appropriations. Just decoration? Ideology and design in early-twentieth-century Sweden / Christina Zetterlund -- Goldfish memories : recounting Oslo's streamlined aluminum trams / Kjetil Fallan -- Creature comforts : soft sofas and the demise of modernist morality in 1970s' Finland / Minna Sarantola-Weiss -- Jacob Jensen and the Lifa Kitchen ; branding the 'lifestyle kitchen' with designer personality and mythology / Hans-Christian Jensen -- Mediations. Something old, something new, something stolen, something blue : designing a chocolate bar / Stig Kvaal, Per Østby -- Exhibitable furniture : interpreting images of design / Malene Bruenig -- Advantages of being Swedish : Volvo in America / Jeff Wener -- From policies to politics : Finnish design on the ideological battlefield in the 1960s and 1970s / Pekka Korvenmaa -- Epilogue / Kjetil Fallan.
Summary:
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.
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