#gunnar asplund

[designobjectory]

Rare wall lamp by Gunnar Asplund for Asea.

Period: 1950-1959

[cyhsal]

Jacob’s Ladder 🪽

Almhöjden, Skogskyrkogården.

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[archiveofaffinities]

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 7 Advertising Mast and Press Stand 1930, Stockholm Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, 1930

[laugier]

Trons Kapell by Asplund

[loeilareaction]

Erik Gunnar Asplund

[metropolitanmodernist]

Night view of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition site, illuminated by electric lighting and neon signs. Photographer: Gustav W:son Cronquist.

In view: Sigurd Lewerentz's advertising mast / reklammasten, and Gunnar Asplund's Paradiset, the main restaurant / huvudrestaurangen.

Image: ArkDes Collections // SU30: in colour

[positivexpectedvalue]

Erik Gunnar Asplund

[garadinervi]

Jean Widmer, Erik Gunnar Asplund, architecte et designer suédois, 1885-1940, Centre Pompidou, Paris, February 15 – April 17, 1989 [© Centre Pompidou / ADAGP, Paris]

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics: Gallaplacidia Edition

@bubu0h created beautiful covers for Gallaplacidia's other fics and you can find them here to use for your personal library!

Artworks used (in order):

"The Son of Man" by Renee Magritte (1964)

"Painting with Green Center" by Vasily Kandinsky (1913)

"View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs" by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1824)

"Dining Room on the Garden" by Pierre Bonnard (1934-1935)

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[germanpostwarmodern]

Together with Franz Hart and Josef Wiedemann, Johannes Ludwig (1904-96) in many ways shaped the architectural formation of postwar Munich: as long-term professor at Technische Hochschule and designer of e.g. the Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche (1953-56) or the reconstruction of the Antikensammlung am Königsplatz (1959-67) Ludwig realized remarkable buildings emblematic for his architectural concept. Influenced by Scandinavian masters Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz and Steen Eiler Rasmussen he embraced a differentiated modernism quite unusual in postwar Germany.

Strangely there isn’t much literature on Johannes Ludwig and the present slender volume represents the most comprehensive overview of his life and work. Published on the occasion of his 80th birthday and a retrospective at Technische Universität München „Johannes Ludwig - Bauten Projekte Möbel“ collects his most important buildings and projects as well as the furniture he designed throughout his career. Preluded by Friedrich Kurrent’s introduction the catalogue shows the two sides of Ludwig’s language, namely one indebted to Scandinavian brick modernism and one aligning with the currents of German postwar architecture: while his church designs in particular are characterized by a geometric austerity his houses, apartment and office buildings very much show a restrained postwar modernism adjusted to its urban and architectural context. The same restraint holds true for his furniture designs, irrespective of typology, as his chairs, lights, tables and drawers are handsomely artisanal but highly unpretentious.

Both Ludwig’s architecture and furniture in the present volume are concisely presented in black-and-white illustrations, plans and occasional drawings that provide a deeper understanding of the architect’s work. Together with the work catalogue in the back of the book it still is the most comprehensive publication on this undeniably important architect.

[neueregel]

Villa Snellman | Stockholm | Gunnar Asplund | 1918

[johnroeluna]

Gunnar Asplund’s studio at Regeringsgatan 40, Stockholm. Photo Herbert Korn 1932, published in “E.G. Asplund architect, friend and colleague” (ed. Christina Engfors) Arkitektur 1990.

[cyhsal]

Pictures at an Exhibition: Girl with Chair and Lamp 🛋️

A redraw study! Lots of fun 🟡

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[guyteera]

Artist from the book

Josep Puig

Willem Kromhout

Karl Moser

Otto Wagner

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Francis Ainsley

John Pollard Seddon

Cass Gilberd

Armas Lindgren

Alexandre Marcel

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Eliel Saarinen

Gerald Calloott Horsley

Bernard Maybeck

Michel De Klerk

Peder Nilhelm Jensen-klint

J Li Mathieu Lauweriks

Sigurd Lewerentz

Erich Mendelsohn

Ragnar Ostberg

Adolf Eibink

Poelzig

Ivar Tengbom

Joseph Vago

Gunnar Asplund

Joseph Marrast

Paul Groesch

Tony Garnier

[marta-bee]

Hans Asplund, baby.

Ooh, there's no entry for Skogskyrogarden. That's just begging for its own article if ever I saw it.

... I've gotta say, he's growing on me. He's sassy. :-)

I'm also strangely fascinated of how his wife is referred to as "Anne Asplund (born 1937)," but his parents are described as "the architect Gunnar Asplund and Gerda Sellman (born 1892)." Either he married his cousin or some such, or some wiki-editor needs a refresher on style guides.

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what