Oss på MiA - Museene i Akershus forteller om digitalisering av fotosamlingen i samarbeid med Nasjonalbiblioteket.
This vintage grinder is as old as me. It’s a Soviet design and was produced in 1986 in the Straume factory in Riga, Latvia. Like many mass-produced items back in the day, almost every household had one like that. After the Berlin wall came down in 1989, items like that became unwanted heritage.
Just before Christmas I visited Lillehammer Art Museum. I went there primarily to gather data for a new research project. After that was done, I had a pleasure to see recently reopened and refurbished exhibitions, among them one which I got very excited about: “Out of the living room…”. In this project, the museum invited members of their audience to present their own favorite privately owned artworks. A new piece is displayed every second week until April.
This Christmas my favorite read was a book from my gift wishlist: “Start to love design. How to collect Polish industrial art”. The book turned out to be so gripping that I even skipped an annual gathering at one of my uncles. Learning about designers behind the iron curtain developing brilliant yet little known projects in the West felt like reading a crime story. Inspired by the book, I started to scrutinize mid-century modern and vintage design in my Oslo house.