Helsingborg Exhibition 1955
The Helsingborg Exhibition 1955 , H55 for short , was a world exhibition with a focus on architecture , the art industry and interior design that took place in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg in 1955 . The initiator was the city of Helsingborg together with the “Swedish Association for Craft Art”, Svenska Slöjdföreningen (today Svensk Form ).
Background and implementation
The H55 lasted from June 10 to August 28, 1955. In addition to Sweden, the participants included Denmark , West Germany , Finland , France , Great Britain , Japan and Switzerland . The main topics were living, architecture, design and the art industry. Some young Swedish designers had their breakthrough here.
Numerous exhibition pavilions were built on an approx. 800 meter long and 30 meter wide pier from 1892, called parapets , in the port of Helsingborg. Only two buildings have been preserved to this day, partly the large restaurant Restaurang Parapeten by architects Torbjörn Olsson and Sven Silow , as well as a pavilion by architect Carl-Axel Acking , which was rebuilt on the occasion of the follow-up exhibition H99 .
On July 10, 1955, the exhibition was solemnly by King Gustav VI. Adolf , who was also its patron .
A technical novelty was also presented to the general public at the exhibition, a triangular milk package which the Tetra Pak company had invented in 1951 and which had been widely accepted by Swedish dairies in 1953–54. Tetra Pak had hoped that in future Swedish school meals would be able to drink milk straight out of the packaging with a straw .
The exhibition was not a direct follow-up to the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition , where Gunnar Asplund was the main architect and introducing functionalism to the Swedish public, even if the press made the comparison. Dagens Nyheter wrote benevolently: "... ingen stratosfärdykning in i New Design ..." (roughly "... no stratospheric flight to New Design ...") and thus alluded to the hunt for the future that the developments in the USA are heading towards shaped this time.
Attendees
The Swedish participants included:
- Åke Huldt was General Commissioner,
- Anders Beckman designed the posters and the logo,
- Carl-Axel Acking was the main architect,
- Torbjörn Olsson and Sven Silow were architects for the restaurant,
- Per Borgström was responsible for the housing department,
- Bruno Mathsson furnished the information office of the exhibition management in Sjöjdföreningen ,
- Erik Arnborg stood for the play and learning department,
- Not so William-Olsson , Mårten Larson and Lena Larsson , who together created the house Skal och kärna (shell and core).
- Astrid Sampe presentednew fabricsfor the textile department of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store chain,
- Stig Lindberg presented his refractory porcelain Terma ,
- Yngve Ekström showed a new furniture collection for Swedese ,
- Signe Persson-Melin had her breakthrough with unconventional ceramics.
Internationally represented:
- Alvar Aalto , Finland
- Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen , Denmark
- Yoji Kasamjima , Japan
- Hans Schwippert , West Germany
- Alfred Altherr , Switzerland
- Eric Lyons , UK
- Marcel Roux , France
photos
Some pictures from the special issue of "FORM" magazine from 1955
Other exhibitions
- Stockholm exhibition 1897 , Allmänna konst- och industriutställningen 1897
- Stockholm Exhibition 1930 , Stockholmsutställningen 1930
- Helsingborg Exhibition 1999 , H99
Web links
- Expo 1955. Bureau International des Expositions (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
literature
- 1900–2002, Svensk Form, Internationell Design, Bokförlaget DN, 2002
- "Form" magazine, issue 4/5, 1955, Svenska Slöjdföreningen
- "Form" magazine, extra number for H55, 1955, Svenska Slöjdföreningen