The Hi-group and the Return to Craft: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1960-1966

摘要

The decades immediately after World War Ⅱ were a period of enormous growth in the Swedish economy. Between 1950 and 1975, Swedish consumers doubled their purchasing power. Bigger incomes, and the attendant higher levels of consumption, offered new opportunities for people to fashion their lives and their homes with all that the consumer society made available. At the same time, attitudes towards production and consumption underwent a change. Home furnishing became much more affordable and the right of consumers to self-fulfilment often contrasted with craft aspects and exclusivity.