SWEDISH TEXTILES TODAY.
Sven Backlund, Rudolf Kalderen, and Bengt A. Nordquist
Sven Backlund [Chairman of the Exhibition Committee], Rudolf Kalderen [Deputy Chairman of the Exhibition Committee], and Bengt A. Nordquist [Special Adviser]: SWEDISH TEXTILES TODAY. Stockholm: Stellan Stals Boktryckeri [printer], 1958. First edition. A very good perfect-bound booklet with thick silkscreened wrappers and a silkscreened heavy acetate French folded sleeve: the acetate sleeve has a chip missing on the cover's upper left hand side and is slightly yellowed and rubbed. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design by Lars Johanson and Photography by Lennart Olson.
7 x 6 perfect-bound booklet with 32 pages and 15 black-and-white illustrations. A traveling exhibition sponsored by His Excellency the Swedish Ambassador to the United States and Organized by a Committee representing the Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Institute for Cultural Relations, and the Swedish Society for Industrial Design. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution. Lovely production with letterpress type and the illustrations printed on glossy stock.
Designers represented at the exhibition include Marta Afzelius, Harry Boostrom, Ingrid Dessau, Olle Eksell, Al Eklund, Ulla Ericson, Age Faith-Ell, Louise Fougstedt, Viola Grasten, Bengt Lindroos, Einar Lynge-Ahlberg, Sven Markelius [1 illustration], Marianne Nilson [2 illustrations (1 with Astrid Sampe)], Pierre Olofsson, Karl-Axel Pehrson, Marit Persson, Astrid Sampe [6 illustrations (1 with Marianne Nilson)], Nisse Skoog, Inez Svensson [1 illustration], and Gota Tragardh [2 illustrations].