Helsingborg Exhibition 1955
The Helsingborg Exhibition 1955, shortly H55, a World's Fair with a focus on architecture, art and interior design industry, which took place in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg in 1955. It was initiated by the city of Helsingborg, together with the " Swedish Association for craftsmanship ," Svenska Slöjdföreningen (now Svensk Form ).
Background and implementation
The H55 lasted from 10 June to 28 August 1955. Participants were out of Sweden. Among others, Denmark, West Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Japan and Switzerland The topics included residential, architecture, design and art industry. Some young Swedish designers had their breakthrough here.
On a 800 meter long and 30 meter wide pier from 1892, called parapets, in the port of Helsingborg one built numerous exhibition pavilions. Only two buildings are preserved to this day, some of the large restaurant Restaurang parapets of the architect Torbjörn Olsson and Sven Silow, and a pavilion of architect Carl -Axel Acking, which was rebuilt at the H99 exhibition successor.
On 10 July 1955, the exhibition was inaugurated by King Gustav VI. Adolf opened, which was also their patron.
The exhibition is also a technical innovation to a wider public a triangular milk packaging, the company Tetra Pak had invented in 1951 and had been in 1953-54 generally accepted by the Swedish dairies was presented. Tetra Pak's hope it was that in the Swedish school meals in future the milk could be consumed directly through a straw out of the package.
The exhibition was not a direct follow-up event of the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, when Gunnar Asplund was the main architect and functionalism was presented to the Swedish public, even if the press was doing this comparison. Dagens Nyheter wrote sympathetically: " ... ingen stratosfärdykning in i New Design ... " (about " ... not a stratospheric flight to New design ...") and alluding to the future of hunting, to the development in the U.S. this time coined.
Participant
Among the Swedish participants were not limited to:
- Åke Huldt was Commissioner General,
- Anders Beckman designed posters and logotype,
- 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 Sjöjdföreningen,
- Erik Arnborg stood for the playing and learning department,
- Unlike William - Olsson, Mårten Larson and Lena Larsson, who created the house together Skal och Kärna ( shell and core).
- Astrid Sampe presented new materials for the textiles department of the department store Nordiska Kompaniet,
- Stig Lindberg presented its heat-resistant porcelain terma
- Yngve Ekström showed a new collection of furniture for Swedese,
- Signe Persson - Melin had her breakthrough with idiosyncratic ceramic.
International were represented, inter alia:
- Alvar Aalto, Finland
- Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen, Denmark
- Yoji Kasamjima, Japan
- Hans Schwippert, West Germany
- Alfred Altherr, Switzerland
- Eric Lyons, United Kingdom
- Marcel Roux, France
Pictures
Some pictures from the special issue of the journal "FORM " from 1955
Other Exhibitions
- Stockholm Exhibition in 1897, Allmänna const -och industriutställningen 1897
- Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, Stockholmsutställningen 1930
- Helsingborg Exhibition 1999 H99
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