Swedish Grace

スウェディッシュ・グレース / 1917–1930 / Style / Scandinavian Design

Interwar Sweden's style laying light ornament and craft over neoclassical poise — Hald's glass, Asplund's buildings showing a graceful modernity that became the runway for Scandinavian modern.

Neoclassical bones / Light engraved ornament / Delicacy in glass and porcelain / Balance of plainness and grace

Swedish Grace — ハルドのガラス（CC BY-SA 2.0）Swedish Grace — アスプルンド ストックホルム市立図書館 1931Swedish Grace — ストックホルム・コンサートホール 1925
ハルドのガラス（CC BY-SA 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Edward Hald / Gunnar Asplund / the turn to functionalism at Stockholm 1930

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