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The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.
This article covers the architecture of Sweden from a historical perspective. As is the norm in the history of architecture, the architectural history of a nation naturally lends itself to the history of its monuments, and to the development of that nation's institutions of power: palaces, castles, and churches. This also applies in the case of ...
The whimsy and populism of postmodernism and its concern for playing with architecture as a form of language took a few Finnish architects into the realm of conceptual art or theoretical or "paper" architecture: for example, the works of Casagrande & Rintala were more often installations for art or architecture Biennales. Their work "Land(e ...
Modernist architecture in Scandinavia — in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ...
The Culture of Scandinavia encompasses the cultures of the Scandinavia region Northern Europe including Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and may also include the Nordic countries Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. National cultures within Scandinavia include: Culture of Sweden; Culture of Norway; Culture of Denmark; Culture of Iceland
Scandinavian design is the epitome of simplicity with an emphasis on function and beauty. It’s minimal and clean yet cozy and influenced by nature.
Parliament of Finland, Helsinki (1926–1931) by Johan Sigfrid Sirén. Haugesund City Hall (1922–1931) by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas.. Certain architects had reached the culmination of their careers already when the National Romantic style came, but their latter works were in the Nordic Classicism style (e.g. Carl Westman), the career of others culminated with Nordic Classicism ...
Architecture in Scandinavia — in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.