Scandinavian Modern

Alvar Aalto: Second Nature

Published by Vitra Design Museum.
Edited by Jochen Eisenbrand, Mateo Kries. Text by Jochen Eisenbrand, Pedro Gadanho, Dörte Kuhlmann, Peter MacKeith, Mina Marefat, Silvia Micheli, Akos Moravánszky, Eric Mumford, Markku Norvasuo, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.

Described by the architectural critic Sigfried Giedion as the “Magus of the North,” Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is the best-known Finnish architect of his generation and a leading proponent of a more human modernism. His buildings such as the Paimio Sanatorium (1933), the legendary Villa Mairea (1939) and the church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska (1958), embody a masterful interplay of organic volumes, forms and materials. From door handles and lighting fixtures to built-in furniture, Aalto frequently designed complete interiors down to the smallest detail. With his plywood chairs, the master builder additionally became one of the most significant designers of the twentieth century. His Savoy Vase represents the quintessential qualities of Finnish and organic design. This richly illustrated book is the first in many years to offer a comprehensive and current overview of Aalto’s oeuvre as an architect, designer and urban planner. Ten authors, including the renowned architectural historians Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Akos Moravanszky, and MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho, address central aspects of Aalto’s work. Particular attention is paid to Aalto’s dialogue with important artists of his day, including Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger, as well as his interest in film, cinema and photography, whose influences on his work are examined here for the first time. The catalogue section presents numerous never-before-seen original drawings and architectural models from the archive of the Alvar Aalto Foundation. This perspective on Aalto is complemented with photographs by Armin Linke, who documented a number of Aalto’s buildings anew especially for this publication. As these images demonstrate, Aalto’s work is as current and inspiring today as it was at the time of its creation.

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Vitra Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 648 pgs / 500 color.

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Pub Date 11/30/2014
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Poul Kjaerholm

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Lise Mortensen. Text by Michael Sheridan, Poul Erik Tøjner.

An exquisite retrospective monograph on the foundation and legacy of a quietly revered Danish architect and industrial designer

PUBLISHER
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Hardcover, 11.75 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 200 color / 160 duotones.

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Pub Date 8/15/2006
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The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm: Catalogue Raisonné

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Foreword by Hanne Kjærholm. Text by Michael Sheridan.

The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm: Catalogue Raisonné is the comprehensive and definitive reference work on one of the most important and profound designers of the twentieth century. Poul Kjærholm (Denmark, 1929-80) was a furniture architect whose unique aesthetic language combined industrial materials and techniques with a craftsman's approach to details and materials. The catalogue has been authored by the American architect Michael Sheridan, an internationally recognized expert on Scandinavian architecture and design and the world's foremost authority on Kjærholm.
This volume includes 70 entries that document, analyze and describe all of Kjærholm's realized designs. The entries include furniture dimensions and information about materials, as well as a wealth of drawings and vintage photographs. The book features the renowned Modernist photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen's iconic photographs of Kjaerholm's work. Helmer-Petersen was Kjærholm's creative partner for three decades and documented his furniture and exhibitions over this period. Sheridan's biographical essay traces and discusses the development of Kjærholm's formal vision over the course of his career. Supplementary information includes a timeline of production dates, manufacturer information, notes on materials and maintenance and production stamps.
The book was compiled with the assistance of the Kjærholm family and includes a foreword by Hanne Kjærholm. It was designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, one of the most respected designers of art books in the world. Printed entirely in black-and-white duotone, the many archival photographs in the book are reproduced in the finest quality. Destined to become a model for the field of design, The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm is an instant classic and an essential reference for readers interested in furniture, interior design and the history of Modern architecture and design.

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 230 bw.

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Pub Date 2/1/2008
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Hans J. Wegner: Just One Good Chair

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Christian Holmsted Olesen.

An elegant, linen-bound overview of midcentury Danish modernist Hans J. Wegner’s unrivalled chairs, still strikingly modern and coveted after decades

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Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color.

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Pub Date 9/30/2014
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Finn Juhl and His House

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Per H. Hansen, Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen.

A handsome, illustrated tribute to the brilliant Danish designer and his iconic home

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9.25 x 9.25 in. / 222 pgs / 183 color.

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Pub Date 9/30/2014
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Landmarks: The Modern House in Denmark

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Michael Sheridan.

The human being was at the center of Danish modernism. Traditional craftsmanship and a high degree of quality influenced both its design and its architecture. Alongside the construction of numerous groundbreaking public buildings, the 1950s and 60s saw the design of many single-family homes based on an aesthetic that focused on truth to materials, honesty in construction and the reduction of form. Built of wood and brick and with practical, informal floor plans and large glass surfaces that opened up the interior of the house to nature, the best of these homes still fulfill their tasks to this day. Landmark: The Modern House in Denmark is a compendium of selected buildings examined in detail, including icons such as Utzon House by Jørn Utzon, Arne Jacobsen's Siesby House and the Bøgh Andersen House by Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert. It includes new, full-color photographs that document the buildings as well as discussions on the history of each one's design and construction. Biographies of the architects round out the volume.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 336 pgs / 491 color.

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Pub Date 6/30/2014
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Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann. Text by David Lomas, Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau, Helmut Zander, et al.

Just before her death in 1944 at the age of 81, the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be publicly exhibited for 20 years. In fact, another 40-plus years were to pass before inklings of her vast oeuvre began to reach public consciousness, with the landmark 1987 exhibition and book The Spiritual in Art. Since then, critics, artists and historians have praised her with ever-increasing awe, and today af Klint’s paintings, watercolors and sketches--numbering over 1,000 in total--have never looked so contemporary, presaging as they do the works of Beatriz Milhazes, Elizabeth Murray and Tal R., and Agnes Martin, Emma Kunz and Arthur Dove before them. For af Klint herself, as a medium for an art she was despairingly unable to comprehend, contemporaneity was irrelevant: her work--much of which was dictated by a spirit guide named Ananda--unfolded in complete ignorance of Kandinsky, Malevich or Mondrian, who likewise practised an abstraction informed by theosophy and occult philosophy. Af Klint’s abstractions preceded those of Kandinsky, who is usually credited with inventing abstract painting: as early as 1906, she was devising large-scale canvases filled with grids, circles, spirals and petal-like forms--sometimes diagrammatic, sometimes biomorphic. She was painting watercolor monochromes in 1916, and making automatic drawings long before the Surrealists. This monumental 280-page monograph, with 200 color plates, is the first full Hilma af Klint overview. A landmark publication, it not only reveals the moving lucidity of her art, but challenges the narrative of abstract art in the twentieth century.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 6/30/2013
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Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America,

A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012

Published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Edited and with introduction by Patricia G. Berman. Foreword by Edward P. Gallagher. Text by Charlotte Linvald, Janet S. Rauscher, Colleen Ritzau Leth, Ina Johannesen, Tomas Björk.

Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies a recent exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation’s first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912–1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century. Luminous Modernism brings together 48 works by Harriet Backer, Richard Bergh, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Jean Heiberg, Otto Hesselbom, Eugène Jansson, Ludvig Karsten, Nils Kreuger, Christian Krohg, Edvard Munch, Lauritz Andersen Ring, Erik Theodor Werenskiold and other Scandinavian modernists.

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The American-Scandinavian Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 13 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color / 6 bw / 1 duotone / 1 tritone.

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Pub Date 3/31/2013
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Modern Swedish Design

Three Founding Texts

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, Barbara Miller Lane. Text by Lucy Creagh, Kenneth Frampton, Barbara Miller Lane, Helena Kåberg.

Crucial generative writings exposing the intellectual background of modern Swedish design

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 10.5 in. / 320 pgs / 18 color / 50 bw.

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Pub Date 8/1/2008
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Eero Saarinen: Objects and Furniture Design

By Architects Series

Published by Ediciones Polígrafa.
Introduction by Antonio Román.

Despite the brevity of his career, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the most celebrated architects of his time. Born in Finland, he immigrated to the United States in 1923, where his father was director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Here, the young Saarinen took courses in sculpture and furniture design, and began close friendships with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, as well as Florence Knoll. As a designer, Saarinen moved easily between the so-called International Style and Expressionism, utilizing a vocabulary of bold colors, curves and cantilevers; many of his pieces have remained in production, becoming twentieth-century furniture icons. As an architect, Saarinen is responsible for some of the most potent architectural symbols of American identity including Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Published in Poligrafa's By Architect series, this volume surveys Saarinen's life and career.

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Ediciones Polígrafa

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 178 color.

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Pub Date 4/30/2013
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