Things about Stig
Things about Stig
Dear, sweet, kind Janne of Whats blogging my view hunted down a rare copy of this book on Stig Lindberg for me, and I’ve been poring over it all weekend. The text is all in Swedish, so I’ve had to use key words gleaned from captions and the internet to open up some of the information.
There are pages and pages of his amazing range of tableware, and lots of it was new to me. I found the brilliant Japanese site Biotope, where I found a near-exhaustive catalogue of Lindberg goods, some familiar, some new.
I was intrigued by this image in the book , and used Google to discover that Japan’s passion for Stig Lindberg goods goes way back, evidenced by the in-store wrapping paper he designed in 1959 for Japanese department store, Seibu. More Google hunting dug up another Japanese site, Graphio-Buro, which is selling framed sheets of the Stig Lindberg wrapping paper.
Want more? There are masses of images of Stig Lindberg’s work to be seen on Google images, at RetroHome and Scandinavian Design too.
louise35flower
What a lovely way to spend the weekend! the cover alone has me drooling. Thanks for all the links, it is a rainy day here so a spot of internet surfing sounds ideal!
Ansie
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "universal appeal". I would never have connected Scandinavian design with Japan. How interesting!
Dee Beale
He's the best.
L'Atelier
Ah gorgeous! feel like going to the clay cafe ;)really cool really universal and timeless- genius
Sara Smedley
Wow, thank you for sharing this Heather! I'm feeling inspired and (unfortunately) coveting all of it. If only!!
Kathleen
so many amazing things to look at. great post!
orange you lucky!
Oh! you lucky lucky girl! What an awesome book!I would love to have a piece of that wrapping paper:)Very inspiring!
Ulrika
He is also very popular home in Sweden. But just until recently he was not so well known, now much thanks to a very popular antiques TV-show everybody knows about him. And the prices of his work went up alot. It's a good thing some of the work is still manufactured today. 🙂
The Shopping Sherpa
Did you know that google language tools now includes Swedish? Particularly useful for trawling Traders (Swedish eBay)…WEG
Xander
Oo, I love the thought of 1950s Japanese-Scandinavian collaboration… X