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SWEDISH ARCHITECTURE Drawings 1640-1970.
Author: Henrik O. Andersson and Fredric Bedoire
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1986
No. of pages: 268
Illustrations: 150 Color Illustrations. 350 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 11”x 12”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9185194670
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index. Bios.
Code: 0062
Price: $135.00
A very impressive, large-format book with an overview of Swedish architectural culture and of the movements and ideals which shaped it since it first began in the 17th century. Complete articles on 108 architects, including Gunnar Leche, Osvald Almqvist, Sven Markelius, Hakon Ahlberg,Eskil Dundahl, Oluf Thunström, Uno Åhren, Paul Hedqvist, Nils Einar Eriksson, Wolter Gahn, Kjell Ödeen, Ahrbom & Zimdahl, Backström & Reinius, Sune Lindström, Arthur von Schmalensee, Erik and Tore Ahlsen, Peter Celsing, Gunnar Asplund, et al. Many pages of architectural renderings in color.
SWEDISH COUNTRY HOUSE, THE.
Author: Scherman, Susanna
Country: New York
Language:
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 224
Illustrations: 111 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 11 1/2” x 9”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9781580932943
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 6916
Price: $49.50
Swedish country houses are one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. Little known outside Sweden and rarely published, they survive in surprisingly large numbers, often with their original furniture and decoration. Twenty of these remarkable and timeless houses are examined here in detail, ranging from royal palaces to farmhouses, all dating from the fifteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. In spite of being far from the centers of power and artistic influence, these houses reflect the talents of important architects and designers who together forged a distinctive national style. Sweden has been fortunate in its history: while the Hundred Years War reduced much of Europe to ruins, Sweden grew rich, and during the subsequent centuries has enjoyed almost continuous peace. The story of Swedish country houses is thus a mirror of Swedish social history, its hierarchy of classes, its absorption of European styles and movements, and above all its enduring culture. The Swedish Country House is both an important contribution to design history and a highly seductive glimpse into a secret Nordic world. Art historian Susanna Scherman has included examples from every level, drawing special attention to the qualities that make them unique. She and noted photographer Åke E:son Lindman explored the houses together, and together they bring them to life for the reader.
SWEDISH LIGHTHOUSES.
Author: Sellmann, Harry. Photographs by Magnus Rietz
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 270
Illustrations: 123 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 13”x 10”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9170549230
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4007
Price: $95.00
A stunning photographic survey of Sweden’s lighthouses, built in many architectural styles and from various materials. Photographer Magnus Rietz has spent a number of years passionately capturing on film the unique array of lighthouses along Swedish coasts. Together with sea pilot Harry Sellman, he also documents their function in society-once practical, and now increasingly cultural and metaphoric. Though technology has made them superfluous, they remain a modest, but extremely important part of Swedish cultural heritage.
SWEDISH MODERNISM. Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State
Author: Mattsson, Helena; Wallenstein, Sven-Olov
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 222
Illustrations: 10 Color Illustrations. 92 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781906155988
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 7042
Price: $65.00
Swedish Modernism is a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and attempts to highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation. Swedish Modernism provides an in-depth, multilayered account of the process of modernisation; whilst also highlighting the difficulties found. The debate is enriched from a diverse range of contributors including architects, researchers and leading academics from across the globe. Swedish Modernism includes an introduction from Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein and contributions from leading academics from New York s Columbia University and London s UCL; alongside architects in the field. The essays explore the construction of the welfare state, contextualising this in relation to the political and social factors of the time, consumers and spectacles--from housing to national marketing programmes. Specific case studies are featured and the reader ends with a section dealing with the more general problem of historiography.
SWEDISH RESIDENTIAL YARDS 1930-59 / SVENSKA BOSTADSGÅRDAR 1930-59. Qualities for the Future / Miljökvaliteter för Framtiden
Author: Persson, Bengt & Agneta
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 117
Illustrations: 235 Color Illustrations. 29 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x 12”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9154056837
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 2047
Price: $75.00
The landscape gardening of this period is Nordic Romantic Functionalism, which involves incorporating the natural vegetation and bedrock seamlessly into the yards and gardens of housing blocks. The simplicity of the buildings’ architectural design is thereby enhanced by a natural approach to its surroundings. This lovely book affords important lessons for both the architect and the landscape gardener.