Art Consulting Scandinavia:Applied Arts/Design/Crafts

KUKKAPURO, YRJÖ DESIGNER.

Author: Aav, Marianne, Isa Kukkapuro-Enborn, and Eeva Viljanen
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 198
Illustrations: 92 Color Illustrations. 12 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”sq
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9789529878567
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Index.
Code: 6151

Price: $125.00

This catalogue published by the Design Museum presents Kukkapuro’s main works. Yrjö Kukkapuro is one of Finland’s most important and prolific furniture designers. All Finns have sat, either wittingly or unwittingly, in a chair designed by him, either in an office, auditorium, theatre or church, or a metro station bench. His pieces are about the harmony of functionality, form, and material. In this book he describes the basis and development of his work in design, and Professor Pekka Korvenmaa provides an analytical overview of Kukkapuro’s oeuvre.

KUNSTHÅNDVERKET I MIDDELALDEREN (Applied Arts in the Middle Ages). Fra Trondheims Skattkammer (From Trondheim’s Treasury)

Author: Håkon A. Andersen
Country: Norwegian
Language: Norway
Year Published: 1997
No. of pages: 88
Illustrations: 4 Color Illustrations. 85 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8270031682
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 3133

Price: $26.50

A small volume in a series of ‘pocket guides’ on Norwegian applied arts and crafts. This volume illuminates wood carving, metalwork and walrus tusk carving in the 500 years preceding the Renaissance, and traces the dispersion of Norwegian art and artifacts in medieval Europe. The objects detailed in the book are from Trondheim’s treasury.

KURKI, MARJA DESIGN BY.

Author: Suhonen, Pekka, Text
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 63
Illustrations: 69 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 10”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9511143042
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 4934

Price: $89.50

A colorfully illustrated book on clothing designs by Kurki with a focus on the beautiful silk scarves she creates. She states, “the design process is what has interested people most over the years”. She makes a forecast over a year ahead of time which colours will be à la mode and what people will want to buy. With Kurki’s designs, indeed there may be a dash of the mystical involved.

KURVER (Baskets).

Author: Jan Henrik Munksgaard
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian
Year Published: 1980
No. of pages: 88
Illustrations: 4 Color Illustrations. 123 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8270032298
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 2644

Price: $49.50

Intricately woven baskets and baskets fashioned from bark and wood, carved or painted, are examples of a venerable traditional Norwegian craft. This book provides a historical overview of these objects, including many examples of their great varieity and uses. Some illustrations demonstrating methods of basket weaving are also included.

KÄRLEK TILL GLAS / LOVE FOR GLASS. Agnes Hellner’s Collection of Orrefors Glass

Author: Christer Jonsson, ed
Country: Sweden
Language: English/ Swedish
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 362
Illustrations: 73 Color Illustrations. 127 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound w/ jacket
Size: 13 1/2”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 6.00
ISBN: 9187214814
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 2993

Price: $95.00

This gorgeous book through its focus on a private collection of Orrefors glass, employs a personalized approach in an attempt understand the overwhelming success of the Orrefors legacy. By including manuscripts of Hellner’s own opinions of her collection, as well as critical essays by seven acclaimed art historians, the Orrefors legacy is examined not only in terms of its own success, but also in its role in the history of the Swedish craft industry as a whole. Full page exquisite color photographs makes it a feast for the eye as well as the mind.