Stockholm Design Week 2019.

February 13, 2023

Stockholm Design Week 2019 and the the opening of the exhibition 1980s.

The Museum of Furniture Studies attended the 2019 Stockholm Design Week by opening the exhibition 1980s. The exhibition reflected a new era in international design, brought forward by the Memphis Milano group in 1981. The museum also highlighted how the Italian anti-design movement and its protest against modernism was reflected by Nordic and European designers.

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Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto is one of the best known Nordic architects and designers from the modernist era. Aalto’s buildings, furniture and interiors are world renowned and the company Artek founded in 1935, is still manufacturing his furniture.

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