WICKMAN, Kerstin; WIDENHEIM, Cecilia; BJÖRNBERG, Julia (eds.)
Oomph: The Women Who Made Sweden Colorful

A book about the women who brought on a revolution in Swedish kitchens, linen closets, living rooms, and in the country's textile and fashion industries. With their work in glass, textiles, and ceramics, and their radical ideas about the future of domestic life, they put Sweden on the industrial design map in the middle of the twentieth century. Many women designers were engaged in the increasingly acute housing crisis, and questioned the way homes were traditionally designed. After the Second World War, new manufacturing opportunities emerged: new customs demanded new designs and materials. Although many doors still remained closed to women designers, their work in glass, textiles, and ceramics, and their radical ideas about the future of domestic life put Sweden on the international design map in the middle of the twentieth century. [publisher's note]

With texts by Kerstin Wickman, Anna Johansson, Cecilia Widenheim.

Published by Art And Theory Publishing, 2016
Design by VarvVarv
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