CONTENTS FORUM
No.1/2010
- Editorial
- The team player
In addition to leading an entire architectural movement in his native country of Finland, Viljo Revell was the architect-cum-sailor who designed the city hall that modernised Toronto. He would have turned 100 this year. - Denmark
Planted houses and talking lamps. Plus three Danes who have created a design hybrid.- Finland
Plastic lamps and Kongo chairs have brought about the return of the design old-timers. Also: what to expect when Helsinki becomes the world’s design capital.- Iceland
A five-hundred-square-metre ice cube in China and dancing walls in Reykjavík.
- Norway
Beetles, hats, PET bottles and quiet Sundays are natural sources of inspiration in Norway. - Sweden
Spiritual interiors, eyebrow-raising lighting and royal hotels. Plus: Sir Paul Smith on stripes that never fade.
- A world of equals
The most ordinary objects can become an extraordinary exhibition in the hands of Jasper Morrison. We visited the unassuming designer in London while he packed up his Jugs, Jars & Pitchers for a trip to Stockholm.- Reviews
A sheet-metal house, a seafarers’ centre, and a workplace too fine for journalists – here’s our take on the newest in Scandinavian architecture.
- Column, Per Svensson
“There is something fundamentally childish about a fascination with models.“- THEME: Models
Construction kits, tools made of blue styrofoam foam, an ideal, a vision or someone who is undernourished and overpaid. Models have many incarnations. You can can find most of them in Forum.- Pompeii, Mon Amour
After having broken his arm on a military exercise in Finland, King Gustaf III could finally take his much longed-for trip to Italy – a journey that enriched Sweden with an Isis temple made of cork. - A lapidary winner
The prestigious competition for a new cremato-rium at the world heritage Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm is now complete. We asked Wilfried Wang to analyse the winning proposal.
- Beloved copy
Is copying a shameful crime or a sign of recognition? We find out where the borderline goes between inspiration and plagiarism, original and copy.
- Living models
Forum’s debut on the catwalk. Five Scandinavian landmarks as you have never seen them before. An unusual fashion show orchestrated by Jesper Kouthoofd.- The scandinavian model
Successful model or an obsolete concept? We looked at what are we really talking about when we talk about Scandinavian design.
- The perfect home
Reclaim interior design! A team of design students took the model home as their starting point in an attempt to recapture their profession and liberate themselves from the “Beckmans style”.
- An enduring model
Just as we started to worry that technology is sweeping aside all things that has to do with handicraft, we discovered there is actually one handicraft that is gaining momentum – model building.- Collectivism´s terminal station
Sven Nyblom sat in his dentist’s chair at home and dreamed of a Utopian society. The result: a round town protected by a cupola – a model city that was only noticed by science fiction enthusiasts. Until now, that is.
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