No. 1 of 15 volumes in the publication series "Scandinavian Journal of Design History" (ed. Mirjam Gelfer-Jørgensen).
116 pages, soft cover with flaps, 81 illustrations, 208 x 270 mm (1991)
Contents:
Editorial, p. 4-6
Ivories by Gottfried Wolffram (by Jørgen Hein), p. 7-34
Ornamentation seen as high art - the pioneering work of Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser (by Widar Halén), p. 35-46
"One of the age's noblest cultural movements" On the theoretical basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement (by Ingeborg Glambeck), p. 47-76
Furniture art or a machine to sit on? Swedish furniture design and radical reforms (by Gunilla Frick), p. 77-106
Book reviews, p. 107-115
Cover illustration: "Knowledge is Power" from Dresser's "The art of decorative design", London, 1862, pl. XXIV.
(Ornamentation seen as high art - the pioneering work of Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser (by Widar Halén), p. 35-46)
