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GLADMAT FOOD FESTIVAL: Food with a smile
Jun 01, 2008; Watson, Anna ... For the tenth consecutive year, the Norwegian port of Stavanger is hosting the Gladmat food festival. For four days in late July dozens of food stalls will crowd around the harbor. In Gladmat's first year 40 exhibitors tested the ground; a decade on, 120 will attend. While visiting ...
TÄLLBERG
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Population: 200. A village in Dalarna, the central region of Sweden, a.k.a. Dalecarlia, where the DaIa horse originated. Sometimes considered the heartland of Sweden, Sweden-in-miniature, and home to iconic, beloved, and renowned painters Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. Also home of a foundation ...
DANISH ART & THE FAIRY GODMOTHER OF NEW YORK
Jun 01, 2008; Stenskär, Eva ... SIX DANISH ARTISTS AT TRYGVE LIE GALLERY A recent exhibition at New York's Trygve lie Gallery featured the works - photography, painting, and mixed media - of six Danish artists, all living and working in New York. Their reasons varied for making the move over the Atlantic to the City of ...
Face Stockholm
Jun 01, 2008; Stenskär, Eva ... Recently a giant in the cosmetics business celebrated its 25th anniversary. It's not an easy task to look pretty after such a long journey - but Face Stockholm and its founders, Gun Nowak and Martina Arfwidson, look better than ever! "Mom is a Taurus," says Martina Arfwidson, co-founder ...
DRIVING FASHION FORWARD
Jun 01, 2008; Quinn, Bradley ... Josefin Lassbo is probably not as famous as she ought to be. A Swedish designer who rose to fashion fame for her environmentally-friendly fabrics and Fair Trade ethics, today Lassbo is pioneering a holistic approach that has rippled far beyond the fashion world. Lassbo calls her label ...
WEB DIRECTORY
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Food STURDIWHEAT FOODS | www.sturdiwheot.com Shop Online, (800) 201 9650 Limpa Sweet Rye & Sweet Cardamom Bread Mixes, complete for your Scandinavian taste. Call for nearest location or order online. Great gift baskets. Food & Gifts INGEBRETSEN'S | ...
NORÉN'S WAR
Jun 01, 2008; Stenskär, Eva ... When Lars Norén, Europe's most produced playwright, due to health reasons couldn't come to New York to personally direct his play "War" as planned, it fell into the lap of fellow Swede Anders Cato to bring it to fruition. A not altogether easy task. Despite the fact that shades of both ...
WHAT WHERE WHEN WHO
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Scandinavian in the desert Scottsdale Airpark, Arizona, may just be your next destination to indulge in Scandinavian contemporary design. The Center of Modern Design has opened in an 8,500-square-foot space which includes shop-in-shop areas for such design icons from the north as Bang ...
THE ORIENTEER'S MECCA: O-RINGEN
Jun 01, 2008; Carr, Lisa Werner ... Orienteering is a sport that mirrors the Scandinavian Spirit - a love of the outdoors, a rational approach to detail and a rested for healthy competition. Each summer, a five-day orienteering festival called O-Ringen draws thousands of people who share that spirit to the foresJs of Sweden. In ...
ORIENTEERING
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... - It's all about finding your way My husband, Tom, and I tried orienteering for the first time in early 2001. We wanted to expand our map-and-compass skills so we could enjoy and feel more confident hiking and backpacking in wilderness areas. Instead, we fell in love with ...
IF IT WORKS IN PAPER...
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Based in Copenhagen, Louise Campbell is a designer who moves in many different directions at once as she designs furniture, lighting and tableware. Campbell describes her work as "furniture for all occasions, from dignity to indecency," producing superlative sweeps like the 'Sushi' chair and the ...
WALLPAPER, CONTEMPORARY WALLS
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Bigger rooms, sleeker decor, more light, less clutter: This mantra for minimal living is what inspired Danish wallpaper designer Trine Andersen to buy a ramshackle 1960's house and transform it into the dream home she shares with her partner, Martin. When the couple first saw the house, which is ...
CHANNELING A SPIRIT
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... When Maija Louekaris won a design competition held by Finnish fabric magnate Marimekko, it was a textile designer's dream come true. A graduate student at the time, Louekaris was searching for a way to combine the interior design education she had previously gained with her talent for drawing ....
INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... DESIGNERS AND COMPANIES FROM TEXT NEA Studio; www.neostudio.com Bare Møbler; www.boremobier.no StokkeAustad; www.stoklceoustad.com Innovation; www./nnovotion-usa.com Refer & Staer; www.refer-staer.dk Louise Campbeli/ Nonproduktion; ...
TO CAPTURE THE UNTAMABLE
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The beauty of Johan Carpner's work is the way it moves. Not movement as in coaxing three-dimensional depth out of a flat surface, but movement in terms of how easily his style flows between the intense lucidity of his graphic designs and the haunting expressiveness of his textiles. After ...
Q&A
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Not your typical Generation X representative, Thea Berg finds much of her inspiration in nature. What are your inspirations? I often feel inspired by the rich and various forms of nature. As my work on textile art and design for quite some years now have been focusing on how to create a ...
DESIGN TO LIFT, ANGLE, CLEAN, AND STORE
Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... It's a typical day injohan Verde's studio. He just flew back from Paris this morning, and is struggling to get his bench for Oslo's flytag terminal (rail to the airport) ready for production before jetting off to China tomorrow. No sooner had he opened the flies on his computer than a call came ...