Mosaic Monday: More Swedish Design

The same artist/designer (Erik Höglund) who made the glassware that I showed for Mosaic Monday two weeks ago, also worked with other materials. These objects are from the same exhibition.

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Ruby Tuesday: 1968

“1968 - Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future”

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966422,00.html#ixzz1FHdk8gOl

“It was a moment, 1968, that mysteriously stepped outside of time, one that was forever bringing the young to dimensions of eternity and the sacred”

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966422,00.html#ixzz1FHeaD2FH

 

Photo/collage DawnTreader 2011

From the 60’s/70’s Swedish Design exhibition at the Textile Museum.

 

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hosted by Mary at ‘Work of the Poet’

Red Furniture for Ruby Tuesday

More from the 60’s/70’s Swedish Design exhibition:

Lena Larsson, 1919-2000, Swedish cabinet-maker, interior decorator and designer. In the 1940s she interviewed housewives about how they used their homes. She pushed for furniture to be cheap, practical, light, easy to use, and easy to dispose of when needs changed, rather than of long lasting quality. This was the general philosophy in the 1960s: “slit och släng” ~ “wear and tear”.

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Mosaic Monday: Green Glass

Glassware from an exhibition of 60’s/70’s Swedish Design at our Textile Museum. More pictures from the Museum can be seen at my other blog, Beyond the Lone Islands. I think these glass objects (or some of them) were designed by Erik Höglund (1932-1998).

 

When I got home from the exhibition, I took out one of my own green glass plates and held it up against the light. If memory doesn’t fail me, I bought those (I have eight of them) on a holiday trip in 1977, at one of the famous Swedish glassworks Kosta or Boda (nowadays merged into Kosta Boda). Erik Höglund worked at Boda 1953-1973. I don’t suppose my plates are his design… but maybe influenced by his ideas?

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