Modern Swedish Design Three Founding Texts

Name: Modern Swedish Design Three Founding Texts
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ISBN: 9780870707223

ISBN-10: 0870707221

ISBN-13: 9780870707223

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lucy Creagh, Helena Kï¿½berg, Barbara Miller Lane, Helena Kï¿½berg

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Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, some of the crucial generative writings on the subject have not been widely translated, and the movement's intellectual background is not well known. Modern Swedish Design collects three of Swedish design's founding texts for the first time in English. In Beauty in the Home (1899), philosopher and critic Ellen Key (1849-1926) promotes simplicity and clarity of purpose with the goal of social reform. Art historian Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977) was instrumental in the spread of ideas such as Key's; in Better Things for Everyday…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.44" wide x 10.47" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Barbara Miller Lane is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History at Bryn Mawr College.



Preface Peter Reed


Acknowledgments


General Introduction



The Untimely Timeliness of Swedish Modernism



An Introduction to Ellen Key's "Beauty in the Home"



"Beauty in the Home"



An Introduction to Gregor Paulsson's Better Things for Everyday Life



Better Things for Everyday Life



An Introduction to acceptera



Acceptera



Selected Bibliography


Index of Names


Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art