{"title":"BOOK","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"black-text-01\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"line-height: 1.6; margin: 0; text-transform: none;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNordic Art \u0026amp; Design Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the 1930s onward\u003cbr\u003eShips worldwide from Tokyo\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"book076","title":"Silent Beauty -Nordic and East Asian Interaction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished for \u003cem\u003eSilent Beauty – Nordic and East Asian Interaction\u003c\/em\u003e, an exhibition held at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Finland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition brought together works from the Nordic countries—primarily Finland and Sweden—and East Asia, with a focus on Japan as well as China and Korea. Centering on painting, ceramics, glass, textiles, and architecture from the postwar period onward, it explored shared qualities and points of exchange such as the beauty of everyday life, relationships with nature, sensitivity to materials, and a simplified visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe installation was particularly compelling, with works arranged by theme in each room and section, often making it difficult at first glance to tell which country a given work came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue includes essays such as\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSilent Beauty - Interaction Between East Asia and the Nordic Countries During the Twentieth Century, Mingei Movement and Nordic Japonisme, Introducing Bernard Leach: Artist Potter, A Changing Landscape, A Sense of Materiality, Simplification and Ascetic Minimalism, Inspiration, Infuences, and Parallel Tracks:Japanese Aesthetics and Swedish Modernist Visual Arts, The Beauty of Simplicity: Sweden and Japan, A Genealogy of Tranquility - With Reference to The Night Pictures, a Series by Samiro Yunoki, Japaneseness in Finnish Architecture, Thoughtful and Harmonious - Aulis and Heidi Blomstedt as Designers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the principal exhibiting and related artists from Japan are Shoji Hamada, Yoshio Aoyama, Kiyoko Kusuda, Bernard Leach, Kanjiro Kawai, Samiro Yunoki, Shigeo Suzuki, and Tadao Ando. In addition to works from the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, the exhibition also included loans from the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura \u0026amp; Hayama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Finland, featured artists include Kimmo Kaivanto, Alfred William Finch, Kyllikki Salmenhaara, Kaj Franck, Ulla Rantanen, Lea Ignatius, Aimo Kanerva, Reino Hietanen, Helene Schjerfbeck, Einar Ilmoni, Mikko Laasio, Ahti Lavonen, Heidi Blomstedt, and Alvar Aalto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Sweden, the exhibition included Rune Hagberg, Rune Jansson, Karl Axel Pehrson, Tom Kresteesen, Olle Carlström, Olle Bonnier, Berndt Friberg, Wilhelm Kåge, and Ingegerd Råman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtists introduced from China and Korea included Zao Wou-Ki and Lee Ufan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeadstock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"OTHER","offers":[{"title":"BOOK076","offer_id":49620843626736,"sku":null,"price":7700.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/5761\/8160\/files\/BOOK076_1.jpg?v=1777283010"},{"product_id":"book079","title":"John Melin till Exempel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA retrospective catalogue published for the John Melin exhibition held at Moderna Museet in 1999. The exhibition was organized after Melin’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing primarily on the work of M\u0026amp;Ö, the partnership he formed with Anders Österlin in 1955, the catalogue also covers a wide range of material, including exhibition posters and catalogues for Moderna Museet, book design, packaging, and Melin’s own conceptual works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough much of the text is in Swedish, the catalogue itself offers a vivid sense of John Melin’s work through its witty and inventive structure, as well as its clear visual language and typography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwedish text. Limited to 2,500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeadstock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 48px;\" class=\"black-text-01\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOHN MELIN｜1921–1992｜SWEDEN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Melin was one of the leading art directors in postwar Swedish advertising and graphic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile working at an advertising agency in Malmö, he began collaborating with the illustrator and artist Anders Österlin. From 1955 onward, the two worked under the name M\u0026amp;Ö, producing advertising and graphic design for exhibition posters, catalogues, advertisements, and packaging. Melin was chiefly responsible for ideas and concepts, while Österlin developed the graphic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s, Melin worked under Pontus Hultén, then director of Moderna Museet and later the founding director of the Centre Pompidou, designing exhibition posters and catalogues for the museum. These became some of his best-known works and played an important role in shaping the museum’s visual identity. He was also involved in the catalogue design for \u003cem\u003eThe Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age\u003c\/em\u003e, the landmark exhibition organized by Hultén at MoMA in 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter leaving the advertising agency in 1976, he continued to work from his home studio, producing posters, catalogues, and packaging for museums and galleries. In the 1980s, he also pursued more conceptual work using materials such as paper, metal, and plastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1955, he married the ceramic artist and designer Signe Persson-Melin, and also designed packaging for her tableware and other products.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1999, after his death, the exhibition \u003cem\u003eJohn Melin till Exempel\u003c\/em\u003e was held at Moderna Museet, with which he had been closely associated throughout his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"JOHN MELIN","offers":[{"title":"BOOK079","offer_id":49620864532720,"sku":null,"price":16500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/5761\/8160\/files\/BOOK079_1.jpg?v=1777283770"},{"product_id":"mats021","title":"ROCKS","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished for Mats Gustafson’s solo exhibition at Galleri Charlotte Lund in Stockholm in 2003, this English-language catalogue includes 23 watercolor works from the ROCK series alongside poems by the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. Softcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe English edition was limited to 475 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* There is wear to the corners and a trace of sticker adhesive at the lower right of the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 48px;\" class=\"black-text-01\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMATS GUSTAFSON｜1951–｜SWEDEN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMats Gustafson is a Swedish artist and illustrator. He moved to New York in 1980 and has been based there ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe began his career as a fashion illustrator in the late 1970s, and his work for British Vogue helped expand his practice internationally. After moving to New York, he worked for American Vogue, and from the late 1980s through the 1990s he contributed illustrations regularly to Vogue Italia. At a time when photography had become the dominant visual language of fashion magazines, Gustafson reasserted fashion illustration as a vital contemporary form, establishing a strong international reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking primarily in watercolor, his style is defined by an economy of line and fields of color that capture contour, movement, and texture with remarkable sensitivity. Alongside fashion, his recurring subjects include rocks, trees, deer, figures, and nudes, and his practice has long moved fluidly between fashion illustration and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMats Gustafson is regarded as one of the artists who demonstrated the enduring potential of fashion illustration. His works are held in the collections of institutions including Moderna Museet, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, and the British Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MATS GUSTAFSON","offers":[{"title":"MATS021","offer_id":49620880818416,"sku":null,"price":27500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/5761\/8160\/files\/MATS021_2.jpg?v=1777284770"}],"url":"https:\/\/elephant-life.com\/en\/collections\/book.oembed","provider":"ELEPHANT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}