CONTENTS FORUM
No.2/2009
- Editorial
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Meet designer Alexander Lervik and his prize-winning chair, Rib.- Denmark
Design classics in the making, astonishing facades and the revival of a furniture fair. - Finland
The saviour of Finnish glass and the future of the Finnish living room and architecture. - Iceland
Everything on Iceland is for sale. Meet the architects who go after your visions.
- Norway
Hurrah, the ices are melting! Norwegian architect Erlend Bagge has plans to save the world with methane gas.
- Sweden
Old airplanes, superficial artwork and architecture jampacked with Hollywood stars. Swedish diversity, in other words. - Peter Saville by David Adjaye
When he calls, the starchitect answers. We went to London to talk to Peter Saville about his collaboration with Kvadrat. But all he wanted to talk about are the benefits of being Peter Saville.
- Reviews
The blue box you shouldn’t miss, the bank that wasn’t worth the detour and other new buildings that have earned their accolades.
- Michael Young
The sport he prefers to watch and the music he wants to avoid. In other words, answers to life’s really important questions.
- Theme 1976
Was everything beige, brown or orange in the middle in the 70s? It’s easy to think so. But there were also moments of light in the middle of all of the murkiness. The fact that Forum was started in 1976 was one of them – hence the theme for this issue.- With ignorance as a method
Noways Says turns 10, Torbjørn Anderssen 33. Forum met with the Norwegian designer for a discussion of careers, the Norwegian design climate and the meaning of being born in 1976.
- World-champion architecture
Childcare was the theme of Forum’s first issue in 1976. We thought it was about time to rekindle interest in the subject. Hanna Nova Beatrice reports. - Stockholm exhibitions
Annina Rabe and Lars Forsberg guide us through the visions, the fish and the small porcelain dogs that all hold a place in the history of architecture.
- To photograph, first you must
Gerry Badger recalls a time long gone and describes a series of pictures by master photographer Gunnar Smoliansky.- Time held its breath
The middle of the 1970s marked a break between modernism and postmodernism. Kerstin Wickman recalls the highlights of a distant year.
- Big and small A
With typical Finnish ease, architect Asmo Jaaksi has taken on the task of designing an extension to Alvar Aalto’s library in Seinäjoki.
- Unfinished legacy
Alvar Aalto died in 1976, but his influence lives on. Six international architects and designers sit down to talk about the Finnish master.
- Leading up to 1976
Peter Celsing’s final masterpiece was before its time. Wilfried Wang puts The Bank of Sweden into context.
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