GENSE ROSTFRITT STAL MED STIL.
[Gense Stainless Steel Flatware]
[Gense]: GENSE ROSTFRITT STAL MED STIL. Eskilstuna, Sweden: Gense, c. 1955 [part of a collection of brochures gathered by a gentleman who visited the Helsingborg 1955 Exhibition]. Original edition. Text in Swedish. A very good staple-bound booklet with minor shelf wear. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
5.75 x 3.5 staple-bound booklet with 24 pages and 21 black-and-white illustrations. Includes a short overview of Gense Stainless Steel Flatware and a selection of their offerings including a list of available pices in each pattern and their prices.
Patterns include Facette, Thebe, Ellips, Thebe Special, Gamal Svensk Modell, Florida, Eterna-serien, Thebe-serien, and a selection of flatware cases among other items.
A scarce document from the postwar industrial design era that was collected by an Attendee of the Helsingborg Exhibition 1955 [H55]. The theme of H55 was primarily arts and crafts, assembled with the aim of showing ways in which modern design could be integrated into commercial items and luxury goods. The fair drew exhibitors from over ten countries (no mean feat at the time) and included the String Bookshelf by Nisse Strinning.