Min turkos kakelugn visas på prestigefyllda SUPERSTUDIO PÍU - The Temporary New Museum i hjärtat av Zona Tortona. Svensk Form presenterar utställningen Swedish Love Stories under designveckan i Milano 12-17 april 2011. I år är det fokus på Västra Götaland där flera designers presenteras. Varmt välkommen!
I will show my Turquoise Tiled Stove at prestigious SUPERSTUDIO PÍO - The Temporary New Museum in the middle of Zona Tortona. Svensk Form is organising the Swedish Love Stories exhibition during Milans Design Festival 12-17 April 2011. This year the focus is on Västra Götaland. Most Welcome!
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About my Swedish Tiled Stoves:
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| PHOTO: PER BJÖRN |
It is unusual, what the ceramist Annika Svensson is doing – she is a maker of tiled stoves. She is among the very few ceramists today that make objects of art out of the warmth and hospitality that the tiled stove represents. For ten years now she has been making her unique stoves, utilizing time honored and traditional tiled stove making methods. Her stoves are personalities and poetic hybrids of arts & crafts, art noveau, rustic handicraft and contemporary mass culture.
The first Swedish tiled stoves were based on German models found in royal castles in the 16th century. During the 1760ies, a system with five internal flues created by Cronstedt and Wrede, turned the tiled stoves into the exceptionally efficient energy repositories that they are still today. The stoves made during the Rococo-period by the porcelain factories Rörstrand and Marieberg, were objects of status and extraordinary beauty. The tiled stoves had their heydays during the 19th century, and during that time the stoves were both amazing sculptures, as well as markers of social status in an eclectic mix of styles: renaissance, baroque, old Norse and majolica. However, during the early decades of the 20th century, the trend of the tiled stoves died out, killed by central heating and electricity. And so, during 1950-60, most tiled stoves were torn down. Since the 1990ies however, these sources of warmth and comfort have made their come back, on the basis of their energy smart qualities.
The creations by Annika Svensson carry the history of the tiled stoves with them. But she pushes her expression one step further: from pure function and into the whirlwind of styles of the 21st century. She has resurrected the tiled stove as an object of art and status, and charged it with a sense of humor, and ceramic sensibility. A tiled stove made by Annika Svensson delivers even and pleasant warmth, along with a bit of madness and lust for life.
Petter Eklund
WRITER
