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Stool cavalcade through the 20th century

Sit down à la the 1910s or 1930s. The stool will probably always live on. It serves its special purpose, which nothing can beat.

Alexander Lervik, graduating student from Beckmans Skola, also let the stool emerge as a symbol of our past century's design language when he presented his degree project. In a study of styles and materials during the 20th century, he created a stool for each decade. But – forget copies – here it is à la Lervik. Highly personal and modern.

Stools by Alexander Lervik, here inspired by the 60s and 90s.

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The exhibition's 90s stool is environmentally friendly.

Stools on the platform

Today the exhibition "Ten stools – Ten decades" opens at T-Odenplan. The exhibition is a study of styles across the decades of the 20th century, interpreted through ten stools. It reflects modern design from an international perspective.

It is the seventh student exhibition and the first design exhibition in the art display case on the platform. The young designer this time is Alexander Lervik.

"It is inspiring to get to show a design exhibition for all the people who pass through the station every day," says Alexander Lervik.

The 30s stool is inspired by Alvar Aalto.

The designs span everything from the turn of the century's black graphic stool, across styles such as Bauhaus, Memphis, and space, to the 90s stool, made of gas-molded plastic. Four identical parts are joined together into a stable construction – inexpensive, material-saving, and environmentally friendly – reflecting the furniture thinking of the 90s.

The 50s stool resembles an insect ready to fly away.

86 15 13 or write to ats.hollanderösl.se. put: Kalle Lindberg.

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