Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847889115 ISBN 13 : 9781847889119

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian design are much more complex than this. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories presents a radically new assessment, a corrective to the persistent mythologies and reductive accounts of Scandinavian design.

The book brings together case studies from the early twentieth century to today. Drawn from fields as diverse as transport, engineering, packaging, photography, law, interiors, and corporate identity, these studies tell new or unfamiliar stories about the production, mediation and consumption of design. An alternative history is created, one much more alive to national and regional differences and to types of product.

Scandinavian Design analyses a century of design culture from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and, in so doing, presents a sophisticated introduction to Scandinavian design.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Design History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), the editor of Scandinavian Design (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and co-editor of Made in Italy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). He is also co-editor of Bloomsbury's Cultural Histories of Design series and an editor of the Journal of Design History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847889115
• ISBN 13: 9781847889119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Éditeur: Fallan Kjetil
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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