Finnish modern design : utopian ideals and everyday realities, 1930-1997 / Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, editors ; [contributions by] Marianne Aav [and others].

Title & Author:

Finnish modern design : utopian ideals and everyday realities, 1930-1997 / Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, editors ; [contributions by] Marianne Aav [and others].

Publication:

Description:

411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts between Feb. 27 and June 14, 1998.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition which will be held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts between Feb. 26 and June, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index.
The ambivalence of Finnish culture / Jari Ehrnrooth -- The other modernism : Finnish design and national identity / Harri Kalha -- Architecture and modern identity in Finland / Taisto Mäkelä -- Objects for everyday life : aspects of Finnish design since the 1980s / Susann Vihma -- Opportunities and ideals in modern furniture design in Finland / Pekka Korvenmaa -- National and international aspects of Finnish glass / Kaisa Koivisto -- Simplicity and materialism in the design of Finnish jewelry and metalwork / Marianne Aav -- Finnish textiles en route to modernity / Leena Svinhufoud -- Finnish ceramics : from everyday objects to art / Marianne Aav and Harri Kalha -- Finding a place in a new world order : Finland, America and the "design in Scandinavia" exhibition, 1954-1975 / Hildi Hawkins.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0300075049 (cloth)
9780300075045 (cloth)
0300075235 (pbk.)
9780300075236 (pbk.)

Subject:

Design Finland History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) Finland Exhibitions.
Design Finlande Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) Finlande Expositions.
Design.
Modernism (Art)
Decorative arts Finland History 20th century Exhibitions.
Finland.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Aav, Marianne.
Stritzler-Levine, Nina.
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179744
Call No.: ID NK1471.F5.F57; ID:98-B293
Status: Available

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