Book By Its Cover

5.2.08
Unknown (Scandinavian textile and patterns)

review by Dave Cuzner

Today is the last post from fantastic guest blogger Dave Cuzner of grain edit. Thank you so much Dave for such an interesting week of books! To continue reading about Dave’s great finds don’t forget to visit him on his own design blog, one of my personal favorites, right here.

I wish I could tell you the name of this book, better yet I wish I could read this book. All the text is in Japanese. I’d like to know where their pulling some of these patterns from. This book reminds me of a book published by PIE titled Vintage Fabric from the states. That book focused on modern textiles from The U.S while this book appears to focus on fabrics from Scandinavian countries. I’m not a big fan of the flowery stuff or the tablecloths with illustrations of dancing elves shoveling donut holes. However I really dig the
abstract line work of Astrid Sampe and the organic leafy shapes that appear often in Stig Lindberg’s designs. The back of the book includes a small list of Scandinavian modern shops in Japan where you can spend lots of your low valued US dollar.

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10 Comments
05/2/08  8:48am
a print a day wrote

oh that books look quite fantastic! i love the plant pots :)

i think i’ve seen some equivalents of that (as well as russian folk prints and etc…) at bookstores like kinokuniya.
05/2/08  10:53am
Yu Yasutake wrote

the book titile is ’scandinavian pretty (cute) printed fabrics’ in japanese by the way;) I have a cotton bag with exactly the same print(the top one on the right) which I got in a scandinavian interior shop in japan.
05/2/08  12:07pm
del4yo wrote

I need the ISBN now or I’m going to argh die of a big attack of pattern cuteness despair….

ouch
to late.
05/2/08  12:37pm
Dave wrote

Hi Yu,
Thanks for the translation! I was wondering what the title of this book was. Also, Thanks Julia for having me on Book By Its Cover. It’s been fun!
05/2/08  3:32pm
sosser wrote

i need this one, too! and i do mean NEED :) great find!
05/3/08  4:05am
Rosa wrote

Beautiful! I too would love to have the ISBN.
05/5/08  11:06am
dabney wrote

my friend tomoko very kindly researched this for me (and now, for you!). the ISBN number is:

ISBN-10: 486021286X, or
ISBN-13: 978-4860212865

it is available both new and used on amazon in japan.
05/5/08  10:41pm
mike lowery wrote

This is the best book cover I’ve ever seen. Amazing.
05/8/08  8:46am
Jim wrote

Looks wonderful– I love the folk art aspect to many of their designs.
05/8/08  12:26pm
cake. wrote

wow! thanks for this!

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