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WALL STREET JOURNAL
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| By Stephen Whitlock |
| Global Design |
| Scandinavian Style |
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A visit to the Modernity store in Stockholm is like a crash course in modern design,
with museum-quality work by the best known Scandinavian designers, including Alvar Aalto,
Eero Saarinen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton and Torun Bylow-Hube, plus a few outsiders,
such as Americans Ray and Charles Eames and Scotsman Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The man behind this store devoted to mid-20th century Scandinavian furniture,
ceramics and glass isn’t Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish. He is Scottish.
Andrew Duncanson opened Modernity in the Old Town in 1998; in 2003 he moved to more
spacious premises in the swanky Östermalm neighbourhood (Sibyllegatan 6, Stockholm;
46-8-20 80 25; info@modernity.se ). Close by are two other shops for fans of Scandinavian style:
Asplund (Sibyllegatan 31; 46-8-662 52 84), which sells new pieces by mostly Swedish designers,
and Gamla Lampor (Nybrogatan 3; 46-8-661 90 35 ), which lives up to its name, Old lamps.
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