Santiago Calatrava: The Architect's Studio

Arts & Photography

Kiser, Kirsten

Architecture

Arvinius Förlag

Imagine a towering wooden ship sailing through the clear blue of the Northern sky: that's Universeum, a science museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, designed by Wingordh Arkitektkontor, winner of the 2004 Timber Prize for building with wood. This book gives equal attention to all top ten nominees for the prize, includes single-family homes, apartment buildings, museums, the visitor center in a national park and student housing. Accompanying each project are photos of the exteriors and interiors, floorplans and descriptions by the architects themselves.

Swedish Architecture in Wood: The 2004 Timber Prize

Roger I. Tanner

Scandinavian design is famous for being modernist, strict and blond. But this long-overdue volume, perfectly timed to mesh with the resurgence of craft as high art, shows that contemporary crafts from Sweden can offer so much more. Artists in Sweden are redefining craft with exciting new designs aimed at creating a more international movement eroding the boundaries between art, architecture and design. RE:FORM takes the pulse of Swedish crafts in the 21st century, with lavish illustrations and commentary from historians, economists and the artists themselves, weighing in on how crafts can find a new platform in the constantly shifting world of art and design.

Re:form: Contemporary Swedish Art Crafts

ulf-beckman-hanna-ljungstrom

Graphic Design

"Designed in Sweden banishes the persistent image of bendy pale-wood chairs, nice-but-dull checked blankets and the flat pack giant IKEA as the standard-bearers for a nation's design aesthetic," wrote David Nicholls in the London Telegraph about the touring Swedish design show documented in this pocket-sized but incredibly comprehensive publication. From the sleek silhouettes of lustrous art glass to the cool contours of sculptural furniture, Designed in Sweden showcases the dynamic developments that characterize new Swedish design. Although the style was once regarded as subdued, the atmosphere surrounding Swedish design today is charged with the exhilarating intensity of a Bergman film," enthused a writer for The Museum of London.

Designed in Sweden

Quinn, Bradley

Delightfully child-like in some ways, perversely obsessive in others, this richly illustrated book is a fascinating journey in miniature through the changing trends in Scandinavian interior design in the second half of the 20th century. An astonishing amalgam of the Swedish folk art of miniature-making (called folkhem) with a vogue for minuscule Modernism. These doll's houses are complete from Arne Jacobsen chairs to wallpaper to period toilets and kitchens. Gorgeous full-bleed photos put you right into the center of these remarkable, mint-condition dwellings, built by three important Swedish toy makers, BRIO, Lundby and Micki Gemla. This book has the potential to be a cult classic.

Scandinavian Design in the Doll's House

Hjorth, Michel

Wadsted, Yvette

Beckman, Ulf

History & Criticism

This unique volume presents readers with an exploration of more than 70 of the most prominent architectural firms from the Nordic countries."Nordic Architects" presents a practical and functional document showcasing both tradition and innovation in Nordic architecture. Each of the entries about the featured architectural firms are accompanied by high-quality, full-colour illustrations representing their work.

Nordic Architects

Sokol, David

''Not for the rich but for the smart'' - a perfect motto for IKEA, the company that has spent half a century democratizing good design. This monumental, lavishly illustrated book - almost 500 full-color pages as full of beauty, bright ideas and cool surprises as a visit to IKEA itself - is the first complete presentation ever of the phenomenon that is the world's most successful furniture enterprise. It's an incredible resource for anyone interested in contemporary design and consumer culture. From Swedish publisher Arvinius, this book tells IKEA's story from its origins as a mail-order company. It details breakthroughs like the invention of the hex wrench and the flat pack, which let the cutting-edge retail giant serve almost 600 million customers in 25 countries in 2009. Chapters showcase the hit parade of the most popular pieces over the decades (the Billy bookshelf has sold millions), and interviews with some of the chain's top designers reveal their surprising passion for the store and its visionary founder, Ingvar Kamprad. This first-edition book itself is destined to be a collector's edition: impeccably printed in Europe, it is published with three different cover colors (pink, green and brown, each with its own ISBN). After a year or so, IKEA will offer its own mass-produced version in a smaller trim size and lower print quality. Like the vintage IKEA catalogs now selling on eBay, get this while you can.

Ikea the Book: Designers, Products and Other Stuff (Pink Cover)

Staffan Bengtsson

Elisabeth Bjorkbom

247 Swedish Craft Artists: A Guide from South to North

Daniel Bjugard and Christoffer Punsvik

The first monograph by Tham &amp; Videgård Arkitekter, an architectural duo that has become leaders of a new generation of Swedish architects in a mere ten years of working together. Though the pair nods to vernacular Nordic tradition with the use of wood, painted floors and decorative tile, their look is lucid, international and playfully geometric. This volume documents residences, offices, university buildings and schools with dynamic photography, renderings, schematics and models. As Hans Ibelings notes in one of the book's essays, the team is neither stuck in the functionalist past nor preoccupied with a conceptual image. Printed on special lightweight paper. In English and Swedish.

Tham and Videgård Arkitekter (English and Swedish Edition)

Kieran Long

Tomas Lauri

Hans Ibelings

The product of a Swedish Interactive Institute symposium, this engrossing reader asks us to re-think the form and future of electricity. Though much of our modern lifestyle is powered by electricity, the energy itself is largely invisible, and today its economic and environmental costs require us to think again about how we use it and waste it. With a thought-provoking collection of texts, drawings, photos, schematics and charts, this book explores how the design process can increase awareness of energy, re-interpreting familiar furnishings and products to make the use of electricity more visible. Grounded in passion and humor, rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers - that is, all of us - to look at the future of energy use in a new way.

Static! Designing for Energy Awareness

Politics & Social Sciences

Ramia Maze

Social Sciences

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