Tag Archives: Design

• Easy pieces

  November 22nd, 2011 by Tony Nguyen

  Posted in Celebrating Scandinavia | No Comments

  Tags: Consumer behaviour, Design, Europe, Fashion, High Street, Recession, Retail, Scandinavia, Style

  London, Paris, Milan… Stockholm and Helsinki? Scandinavia has no international reputation for its fashion. But as its high quality and simple - yet contemporary - style finds new fans during the recession, all that looks set to change, as Josh Sims discovers

• Beyond blonde

  November 22nd, 2011 by Tony Nguyen

  Posted in Celebrating Scandinavia | No Comments

  Tags: Aesthetics, Architecture, Art, Design, Scandinavia, Style

  The Scandinavian architectural tradition has long had tell-tale traits without ever being obvious. Jonathan Bell explains how they still inform the most progressive work of the region’s architects today - and how they go well beyond the blonde-wood and white-wall stereotype