{"title":"Books by Mikael Bergquist","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9783038601364","title":"Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1924 and 1936, Austrian-born architect Josef Frank built five holiday homes on the Falsterbo Peninsula in southern Sweden. Conceived as summer houses for friends and relatives of Frank's Swedish wife, the Falsterbo Villas constitute a key part of Frank's architectural work and demonstrate the principles at the core of his housing designs. In 2016, Villa Carlsten, the smallest of the Falsterbo houses, underwent an extensive restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of its completion, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosef Frank: Villa Carlsten\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first book to comprehensively document the building. As with all of Frank's housing designs, Villa Carlsten sees the architect paying special attention to the connection between interior and exterior, to the availability of daylight, and to inhabitants' movements through the building. A particular part of Villa Carlsten's charm is its scale, as everything is of slightly smaller dimensions than one would expect. Despite its intricate layout, however, Villa Carlsten is also one of Frank's most accessible homes, and the design is full of wit, combining comfort with modern refinement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully designed with seventy-five full-colour photographs by Mikael Olsson, who adeptly highlights the home's qualities and relationship with its surroundings, the book also includes an essay by Mikael Bergquist, who realised the renovation and places Villa Carlsten in context with the other Falsterbo Villas and Frank's broader work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310000288117,"sku":"9783038601364","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783038601364_11fc4b09-891c-4235-968d-32203a2a73d9.jpg?v=1786031816"},{"product_id":"9783038603771","title":"Center and Periphery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realised over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great attention to detail and careful choice of materials characterise these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding landscape and nature, which is enhanced as an experience by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside.\u003cbr\u003eThe houses are documented with photographs as well as plans and sections. In his supplementary essay, Bergquist writes about the special position of working as an architect on the periphery of Europe. He draws a picture of Swedish architecture that is marked by what he calls “fruitful misunderstandings” of current movements, and one in which the poverty of the rural population has been a major factor in the evolution of the design and construction of dwellings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310964060533,"sku":"9783038603771","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783038603771_4da8c0d6-86be-4beb-ae41-16936d41a0c0.jpg?v=1786031850"},{"product_id":"josef-frank-spaces","title":"Josef Frank-Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eJosef Frank, born 1885 in Baden near Vienna, ranks among Europe's most significant architects of the twentieth century. His designs for furniture and textiles also make him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Born into a Jewish family, growing anti-Semitism forced him to emigrate in 1933. He first went to Sweden and in 1939 to the USA, returning to Sweden again in 1947, where he lived and worked until his death in 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosef Frank - Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first comprehensive book on Frank's single-family houses. It explores the evolution of his designs over the years and investigates the influences that shaped his work: Adolf Loos's spatial plan concept, Le Corbusier's ideas, and Hermann Muthesius's seminal book \u003cem\u003eThe English House.\u003c\/em\u003e It also looks at Frank's own architectural concepts of movement and stairs in residential buildings. The second part features six of Frank's houses in greater detail, including images and plans, and in descriptive texts that also interpret their characteristics. The selection comprises the villas Claëson and Wehtje in Falsterbo, Sweden, the villas Wien XIII and Beer in Vienna, the House MS in Los Angeles, and the unrealised Fantasy House 9 (Accidental House). A complete catalogue of Frank's single-family houses rounds out the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492238893429,"sku":"9783038600183","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783038600183.jpg?v=1786529069"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mikael-bergquist.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}