A look at Scandinavian design

A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, focuses on the exchange of designs between the US and the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, includes furniture, toys, drawings, and more. Bobbye Tigerman of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was the exhibition’s co-curator (person who selects art). She told The Week Junior that Scandinavian design has “touched almost everyone’s lives.” Some of the common items in the exhibition that kids may recognize include Stokke’s Tripp Trapp chair, troll dolls, and Lego bricks. Scandinavian design is often gender-neutral and made to be durable as well as versatile. The Tripp Trapp, for example, transforms from a chair for infants to a seat for kids and adults. “The idea…

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