Scandinavian Design

This 45th-edition English hardcover provides the collection’s broadest visual vocabulary. Across 512 pages, it surveys furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, metalware and product design from 1900 onward. The publisher frames the material through entries on 125 designers and design-led companies from across the Nordic region.

Its role here is not to reduce several countries to a single style. Instead, it lets a reader compare how craft, industrial production, organic form and everyday use meet in different objects. That makes it a useful counterpoint to the city guide: one book organises movement through Stockholm, while this one organises attention around things.