TEXT Hilde Sanvik PHOTOGRAPHY Eirik Brekke
STYLING Hilde Sanvik MODEL Elin at BB2 FASHION Leila Hafzi/Earthling

 
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THE SCREAM

"One evening I was walking on a path -on one side lay the city and below me the fjord. I was tired and ill - I stopped and looked out across the fjord Ð the sun was setting - the clouds were dyed red like blood. I felt a scream pass through nature; it seemed to me that I could hear the scream. I painted this picture - painted the clouds as real blood. - The colors were screaming." Edvard Munch, 1893

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THE BYGD

There are no villages in Norway. Here, if you don't live in a city, you live in a "bygd," which, quite simply, means "built." The name suggests that youÕve reached its border when no more dwellings can be seen ahead. The biggest difference between a bygd and a village lies in their origins. In feudal countries peasants tending to their lord's land lived bunched together in villages surrounding a castle or manor. Norwegians owned their own land in far-away places with illustrious names, safeguarded from royal interference by insurmountable mountains. A farmer would never have to bow to a mounted lord. And that is why a Norwegian until this day will not bow to anyone unless bowed to first, which makes for hardly any bowing at all.



 
NOR-2000-13 The Bench in birch by Thorbjorn Anderssen

NOR-2000-14 Pure new wool handmade rug by Andreas Engesvik. Red latched dress in nylon and silk by Leila Hafzi/Earthling

NOR-2000-19 Dock High chair by Tore Borgersen and Espen Voll, stainless steel legs and a laminated plywood seating frame
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