Stockholm

Financial Times - How to spend it (July 2009)

From cobblestones to concrete severity, century-old cafés to contemporary art, the cool capital of Swedish functionalism exceeds Mark C O’Flaherty’s expectations.

... "It’s [Erik Gunnar Asplund’s City Library] also a short walk from the best source of mid-century modern furniture in the city, the prosaically named Modernity. This isn’t just the best place in town to pick up pieces by Swedish masters, it’s also a treasure trove of international rarities, notably a museum quality stock of wildly coloured 1980s Ettore Sottsass and Memphis furniture." ...