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year 1950
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source title Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth: Fifty Years of Design from the Nordic Countries
info It was exhibited at the ‘Scandinavia at Table’ exhibition at the Tea Centre in London in 1951. In Britain, and the first time the term ‘Scandinavian design’ was communicated to a wider public - some years before the North American traveling exhibition Design in Scandinavia of 1954-57 - it was part of the title for a commercial exhibition, Scandinavian Design for Living, held at Heal’s department store in London, starting in October 1951. Significantly this exhibition was the commercial counterpart of an ‘official’ one organized by the Council of Industrial Design (ColD), called Scandinavia at Table that was held at the Tea Centre on London’s Regent St. in 1951. This exhibition was planned in the late 1940s as the return fixture of a 1946 exhibition that the ColD had participated in with the Nordic countries (less Finland) in Stockholm. ‘Scandinavia at Table’, according to Åke H. Huldt, head of the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, who was on the organizing committee, was the first time the Nordic countries held a collaborative exhibition of design or the decorative arts outside the Nordic world. This chronology begins to make it clear that Scandinavian design - the term was coined in English - appears to have been first recognized (although imposed might be a better word) by outsiders in Britain and the U.S. in the late 1940s – early 50s.
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year 1950
material metal
source title Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth: Fifty Years of Design from the Nordic Countries
info It was exhibited at the ‘Scandinavia at Table’ exhibition at the Tea Centre in London in 1951. In Britain, and the first time the term ‘Scandinavian design’ was communicated to a wider public - some years before the North American traveling exhibition Design in Scandinavia of 1954-57 - it was part of the title for a commercial exhibition, Scandinavian Design for Living, held at Heal’s department store in London, starting in October 1951. Significantly this exhibition was the commercial counterpart of an ‘official’ one organized by the Council of Industrial Design (ColD), called Scandinavia at Table that was held at the Tea Centre on London’s Regent St. in 1951. This exhibition was planned in the late 1940s as the return fixture of a 1946 exhibition that the ColD had participated in with the Nordic countries (less Finland) in Stockholm. ‘Scandinavia at Table’, according to Åke H. Huldt, head of the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, who was on the organizing committee, was the first time the Nordic countries held a collaborative exhibition of design or the decorative arts outside the Nordic world. This chronology begins to make it clear that Scandinavian design - the term was coined in English - appears to have been first recognized (although imposed might be a better word) by outsiders in Britain and the U.S. in the late 1940s – early 50s.
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