Italian and Nordic Design Cultures: Identities in Transition 1925–2025

Preface

Maddalena Dalla Mura and Anders V. Munch
Italian and Nordic Design Cultures: Identities in Transition 1925–2025

Translating Design Cultures

Kjetil Fallan
La Linea Nordica: Reading Nordic Design in the Italian Design Press in the 1950s and 1960s

Alba Cappellieri and Beatrice Rossato
“Good Design” in Italian and Nordic Silver Jewellery

Joachim Allouche
National Design Cultures of Production: A Comparative Study of the Danish and Italian Glass Design Cultures

Astrid Skjerven
A Foreign Provocation: Memphis Milano in Norway

Transforming Design Cultures

Anders V. Munch
Nordic Lighting? Poul Henningsen, Christian Norberg-Schulz and the Myths of Scandinavian Twilight

Toke Riis Ebbesen
Marble, Monumentality and Modernity: Italian Connections in the Aarhus City Hall

Rita Marcangelo
Italian-Nordic Dialogues: The Expanding Territories of Contemporary Jewellery

Niels Peter Skou
Flowering Fields Forever: “Scandinavia” as Imagined Place in “New Scandinavian Design”

Transgressing Design Cultures

Maddalena Dalla Mura
Graphic Design in the Middle of Communication, 1960s–80s: Gianni Sassi’s Dilettantism and the Public Utility Movement

Denise Hagströmer
Activity, Play and Self-Flagellation: The Nordic The Child’s Environment Exhibition at the Milan Triennale 1973

Elena Fava
“Dressing Is Easy, for Elegance Is Dead”: Radical Design and Italian Fashion

Annette Svaneklink Jakobsen
Furniture Station as Design Cultural Heritage: Assembling a Community Space and a Museum

Biographies