| Nationalmuseum acquires an armchair, table, and candelabra from the Paris exhibition of 1925 |
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STOCKHOLM.- The Nationalmuseum’s collection of applied art and modern design has gained an armchair, a table and candelabra from the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925. The acquisition is an important addition to the collections as several pieces from the period is missing. The Swedish pavilion was designed by Carl Bergsten and furnished with objects that can be categorised as “Art Deco”, a style that took its name from the event’s French title Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. The exhibition was instrumental in launching Swedish art and design onto the international stage. With 20th-century Modernist historians and museum curators often tending to dismiss this type of exclusive object as decadent, the Nationalmuseum is missing several key pieces from the Swedish pavilion in Paris in 1925, which read full article
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