Project Manager
Marie ArviniusProject manager
Arvinius + Orpheus PublishingAmount granted
100 000 SEKYear
2020
The Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm is perhaps Norway's most beautiful representative building outside its borders. The project is architect Knut Knutsen's masterpiece, and has attracted much attention since it was opened in 1952. This book documents the embassy through new photographs and texts about the architect and the building, the collaboration with his wife Hjördis Knutsen, the interior and the art.
Museum representatives from Stockholm, Norwegian architects and art historians contribute texts to highlight the work of art that the embassy is. The book also contains in-depth texts on Norwegian artists and Swedish collectors, their collaborations and relationships at the turn of the century.
The book "Norway in Sweden" is a Norwegian-Swedish collaboration and is intended to present a piece of Norwegian art from the 1950s in Stockholm. The book will be an important messenger of the relationship between Norway and Sweden; the history, cultural heritage, geographical proximity and fundamental values together form a unique platform for cooperation. This is manifested in the building. Through the book, more people will have the opportunity to discover this Norwegian treasure on Gärdet in Stockholm.
The embassy building - Norway's window to Sweden - has here also become a window to the world, showing Norwegian architecture in Stockholm from the 1950s of international world class.