Invitation to press preview: Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection

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Invitation to press preview: Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection

The burgeoning of design and fine craft in Finland from 1900 to the present day will be the theme of the closing exhibition at Nationalmuseum Design, Nationalmuseum’s temporary space for design-related exhibitions in Stockholm.

The exhibition Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection opens June 20.

A private collection of designer artefacts and applied art will provide insights into innovation, technology, development and aesthetics in the years immediately before and especially after Finland’s declaration of independence in 1917. The exhibition of over 200 pieces by prominent Finnish designers and architects will be the most extensive public showing of the collection to date. Under the title Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection, it will feature everything from original furniture by Eliel Saarinen to glassware and furnishings by Alvar Aalto to contemporary pieces by Ilkka Suppanen and Kristina Riska.

Curation and exhibition design

Antti Siltavuori and Barbro Kulvik

Hundred Years of Finnish Design — From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection runs at Nationalmuseum Design, located inside Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, from 20 June to 29 October 2017.

Press preview

Media is invited to a press preview on 20 June 10 am–11 am. Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, entrance from Sergels Torg, take the elevator to floor 4.

Meet RafaelaSeppälä-Forsblom, the curators and representatives from the Nationalmuseum. RSVP by 16 June to Mattias Robertson, press officer Nationalmuseum, press@nationalmuseum.se, + 46 767 23 46 32.

Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s premier museum of art and design. The collections comprise older paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art, and applied art and design up to the present day. The museum building is currently under renovation and scheduled to open again in 2018. In the meantime, the museum will continue its activities through collaborations both in Sweden and abroad as well as temporary exhibitions at Nationalmuseum Design at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Nationalmuseum has partnerships with Svenska Dagbladet and the Grand Hôtel Stockholm, and acknowledges the support of FCB Fältman & Malmén.

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Nationalmuseum Design in Stockholm bows out with Hundred years of Finnish design

The burgeoning of design and fine craft in Finland from 1900 to the present day will be the theme of the closing exhibition at Nationalmuseum Design, Nationalmuseum’s temporary space for design-related exhibitions in Stockholm. The exhibition Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection opens June 20.

Welcome to Nationalmuseum Sweden!

Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s museum of art and design. The collections include paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art from the 16th century up to the beginning of the 20th century and the collection of applied art and design up to the present day. The total amount of objects is around 700,000. .

The emphasis of the collection of paintings is on Swedish 18th and 19th century painting. Dutch painting from the 17th century is also well represented, and the French 18th century collection is regarded as one of the best in the world. The works are made by artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Boucher, Watteau, Renoir and Degas as well as Swedish artists such as Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson and Carl Fredrik Hill.

The collection of applied art and design consists of objects such as ceramics, textiles, glass and precious and non-precious metals as well as furniture and books etc. The collection of prints and drawings comprises works by Rembrandt, Watteau, Manet, Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson. Central are the 2,000 master drawings that Carl Gustaf Tessin acquired during his tour of duty as Sweden's ambassador to France in the 18th century.

Art and objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections can also be seen at several royal palaces such as Gripsholm, Drottningholm, Strömsholm, Rosersberg and Ulriksdal as well as in the Swedish Institute in Paris. The museum administers the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle, the world’s oldest national portrait gallery and the Gustavsberg collection with approximately 45,000 objects manufactured at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory. Nationalmuseum also curates exhibitions at Nationalmuseum Jamtli and the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum.

Nationalmuseum is a government authority with a mandate to preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art and that falls within the remit of the Swedish Ministry of Culture.

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