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Article: How many for the tango?(view)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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What to do about Sweden? The valedictory television time devoted to the late Ingmar Bergman did not dwell on the architectural aspects of his complex private life-but we can enjoy the fact that he could sneak out of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, across the bridge and down the stairs into the Ornskold Hotel, make love in a green velvet room (still the hotel's standard decor) and get back to direct the next performance. Across the country it was possible for good old Sigurd Lewerentz to be Classicist, stripped Classicist, window and door handle manufacturer, enjoyer of cigars, encourager of guys doing naughty tubes-and-vents architecture, Romanticist, Brutalist and ...