Australian furniture showrooms, newly-styled apartments and lifestyle magazines remain devoted to the Scandinavian look: pale oak, linen, white walls, soft greys and, inevitably, beige. Somewhere there’s a sculptural vase, and just like that you’ve supposedly arrived in Scandinavia.
However, what the rest of the world now calls “Scandinavian design” bears only a passing resemblance to the design ideas that first emerged in Nordic countries.
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