Content Form 6/2014
ART IN SPACE Editor-in-Chief Bo Madestrand on public art mating with architecture.
NOTES About Finnish wood, Parasto Backman’s Vertwin muses and Lervik’s list.
BEST IN SHOW 2014 It was the year of crafts, politics and the cunt. Form, 13 designers and 4 architects look back at 2014..
THIS IS NOT A WALL Public art is breeding new hybrids. Bo Madestrand and Ola Bergengren go on a Swedish tour, looking for an art form in transformation.
SMALL TOWN HORROR How can a place get a history when nothing is ever considered worth saving? Nils Forsberg does not recognize his hometown of Luleå, where demolitions
have been going on since the sixties.
BIG IN JAPAN Lisa Larson is making a comeback in Japan. Salka Hallström Bornold and Patrik Engström visit the 83-year-old pottery legend in her home, among chubby cats
and grumpy dogs.
SOCIAL DESIGN ANXIETY Form pays a visit to the furniture realm of Karl Andersson, where the legacy is kept alive by the founder’s descendants.
DYNASTY Penguins, puppies, Ball chairs. Sofia Hallström sees the Finnish legend Eero Aarnio in his magical home in Veikkola.
FORM 1930 Bo Madestrand digs up an 84-year-old housing utopia from the archive.
EAST OF EDEN Masdar City is for real. Salka Hallström Bornold and Carl Hjelte travel to the desert and find the greenest city of all time.
DANISH DELIGHT Line Depping fuses Nordic modernism with Japanese traditions. Sebastian Lööv talks to the Danish star.
THE RIGHT STUFF News of the season: 10-gruppen does sneakers and Wood Wood goes Disney.
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD It may be because of egoism. Niklas Wahllöf shares his theory about the housing crisis in Stockholm.
REVIEWS Our critics fancy the underground museum in Højbjerg, get lost at Tensta Konsthall and delight in Christoph Schaub’s architecture films, although they are on DVD.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE: LINUS ERSSON After a long conceptual period, Linus
Ersson has returned to experimenting with materials. The potter recalls his path from the suburb of Bålsta to his time with We Work in a Fragile Material.