Territories – Buildings Through the Eyes of Their Users

Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270152 Acqn 33976

The impulse behind this experimental photo project was to inject methodology from street
photography - mostly, the reliance on serendipity and spontaneous behaviour - into architectural
photography. Inspired by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine's films, Philippe Sarfati wanted to show
buildings through the eyes of their users, by presenting spaces as inhabited territories. Acclaimed
works of architecture thus become dramatic backdrops to everyday scenes, their radical
geometries framing simple acts.

The photographs in this book play with the notion of contextual portraiture. On the one hand,
architecture is used as a frame, by focusing compositions onto subjects through bold volumes
and strong lines. On the other hand, people give meaning and scale to the spaces shown. Their
attitudes heighten our perception of the building atmospheres.

Our environment shapes us, and we continuously and subconsciously shape it by the simple act
of inhabiting it.

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Between Affinity and Rupture - Tracing Bubbles
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270688 Acqn 33977
Pb 13x20cm 192pp col ills £27

The publication Between Affinity and Rupture: Tracing Bubbles collects 18 contributions exploring
the notion of the 'bubble' - a symbol of our personalised mental and social landscapes, where
collisions with different realities shape our perceptions, biases, and responses. These insular
realms influence how we perceive and react to realities and values, while also offering avoidance
or empowerment amidst opposing viewpoints.

The collected essays include explorations by the nine artists who participated with their works in
the homonymous group exhibition Mellan tillhorighet och uppbrott: Spara bubblor (Bergsjons
Konsthall, 2022), as well as reflections by seven external interdisciplinary practitioners. This
selection aims to further investigate the idea of the bubble from across multiple disciplines, and to
synthesise artistic and theoretical approaches.

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Martin Jacobson – Selected Works, 2013–2023
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270657 Acqn 33978
Hb 25x28cm 164pp col ills £57.50

Martin Jacobson has become well-known for his theatrical motifs where diverse, visual references
intermingle in his search for an image that feels as if it was discovered rather than made by him.
He collects images for a personal archive that has expanded into thousands of analogue and
digital files over the years, with the aim to gather images seemingly saturated with collective
memories and references. These images are then composed into collages that serve as
foundations for his paintings, where the familiar takes on a new shape and the unknown can still
appear familiar, even giving the feeling of having returned home.

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Model Archive – A Witness to the City
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270770 Acqn 33979
Pb 18x24cm 120pp col ills £31

Model Archive - A Witness to the City is an interdisciplinary anthology that explores urban design
and planning through the collection of models kept at the City Planning Department of Stockholm.
The anthology elaborates on questions posed in the film The Model Archive by artist Malin
Pettersson Oberg, and from the exhibition of the same name curated by Mikaela Steby Stenfalk
at ArkDes - Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design.

In essays and conversations, a dozen authors and dialogue partners reflect on the relationship
between model and city, complexities of the urban planning process, housing issues, and more.
Who builds the city and for whom? How does the shape of the city relate to the shape of its
inhabitants' lives? And can the archive's models serve as tools for memory and historiography, as
well as for reflecting and challenging the city we now have?

This anthology is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Malin Pettersson Oberg and
Mikaela Steby Stenfalk.

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Tala Silver – Swedish Contemporary Artistic Silver and Goldsmithing
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270732 Acqn 33980
Hb 21x28cm 120pp col ills £27

Tala Silver (Speak Silver), published in conjunction with Nutida Svenskt Silver's 60th anniversary,
gives us a glimpse of the member smiths' practices, and places contemporary artistic silver and
goldsmithing in a wider social, cultural and political context.

The book contains four essays, written by some of Sweden's foremost experts and academics in
the field. The essays deal with artistic silver and goldsmithing, as well as jewellery and corpus,
from different perspectives - as vehicles for contemporary commentary and exploration, as craft
from an art historical point of view, and, of course, as a livelihood.

The main part of the book is devoted to a presentation of Nutida's member smiths - highly
competent artists with exceptional craftmanship skills, evaluated and chosen by an experienced
panel. Most of the member smiths are represented in Swedish museum collections. On these
pages, the smiths introduce themselves and their practices through short presentations written for
Tala Silver, along with new pictures of selected works.

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The New Era Agenda
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270701 Acqn 33981
Pb 12x16cm 120pp col ills £19.50

The New Era Agenda is a companion publication to the Scandinavian interiors title The New Era
Magazine. Published as an annual special edition paperback, it fuses previously published homes
and studio visits with brand new content and ideas. On 320 pages readers get invited to homes
and studios of architects, makers, artists and designers shaping our visual and material culture.

In the first volume we visit the legendary Paimio Sanatorium, designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto,
and the home of designer and maker Fredrik Paulsen. Creative force Ana Kras invites us to her
Paris home, and the interior architect Emanuele Stamuli takes us on a tour of his home and
studio in Stockholm. We discuss making with Philippe Malouin and new aesthetics with
Formafantasma, and we visit the designer Ilse Crawford. We also take a look at the new
undercurrents shaping the Nordic design scene.

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Disegno - The Quarterly Journal of Design #36
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789189270763 Acqn 33982
Pb 21x28cm 128pp col ills £21

Disegno #36 brings together a series of essays, interviews, reports, roundtables and photo
galleries that assess different elements of the design process, exploring the way in which
contemporary practitioners interact with the world around them. These include: Yassine Ben
Abdallah's sugared challenge to ethnographic museums; the danger of designer copycats, as set
out by Adam Nathaniel Furman; a study of art's role in Lagos's tropical modernist architecture; the
Togo sofa's starring role in Rye Lane; a shimmering bag of leftovers from Ayzit Bostan;
architectural reuse and humanitarian aid in Brda Foundation's windows for Ukraine; Philippe
Malouin's cup and ball lamp; Hansgrohe and Lovehoney's business case for pleasure in the
shower; Alexandra Hakim's citrus drink jewellery; a flashlight for displaced children, designed in
concert by Ambessa and Pentagram; an assessment of the environmental impact of the Apple
iPhone; Casio's mustard yellow piano for home use; a new climate-conscious community space
for Udaipur, created by Studio Saar; Formafantasma's research into the human-ovine
relationship; a professional Polaroid that challenges ideas around the instantaneousness of
imagery; the industrial design story of the Ableton Push 3, as told by Philipp von Lintel; acid green
glassware by CompletedWorks; Tetsuo Mukai's comparison of the Parthenon and Disney's
Cinderella Castle; holes torn into a Tokyo house by Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku; an
explanation from Oscar Lhermitte as to how the chocolate bar got its form; and Corinne Quin's
analysis of online sizegivers.

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Handwerk No. 9
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2023 ISBN 33983
Pb 21x28cm 160pp col ills £31

The theme of Handvaerk Bookazine No. 9 is interiors. It invites us inside the studios and
workshops where the things in our homes take shape. We meet glassblower Alexander Kirkeby,
who graduated just a few years ago and has already made a name for himself in the international
design scene; recent graduate, ceramic artist Heidi Lillevang, who experiments with stucco; and
stucco worker Peter Funder, who has 35 years' experience.

In addition to rooms, furniture, curtains and rugs, stucco, ceramics and glass, the upcoming issue
of the bookazine maintains a focus on how we become who we are and how we engage with and
speak about ourselves, each other and our practices.

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