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Tillsammens. It’s a word I’ve loved for a long time, in spite of the fact that I don’t speak a jot of Swedish. (Apart from ‘tillsammens’, that is.) I first encountered it in the form of a Lukas Moodysson film title from the early 2000s. Wonderfully sonorous, it means ‘together’, a clearly ironic choice by the director, given the story is one of love and dysfunction in a mid-1970s hippie commune. The word kept coming back to me during a recent trip to Stockholm for the city’s annual design week, where I found myself, on the first morning, huddled together with a cohort of international design journalists in front of Nordiska Kompaniet, the high-end department store – our proximity to each other necessitated as much by the sub-zero temperatures as by the desire to get as clear a view as possible into the store windows, which had been transformed into micro-exhibition spaces showing…
Tillsammens.
It’s a word I’ve loved for a long time, in spite of the fact that I don’t speak a jot of Swedish. (Apart from ‘tillsammens’, that is.) I first encountered it in the form of a Lukas Moodysson film title from the early 2000s. Wonderfully sonorous, it means ‘together’, a clearly ironic choice by the director, given the story is one of love and dysfunction in a mid-1970s hippie commune. The word kept coming back to me during a recent trip to Stockholm for the city’s annual design week, where I found myself, on the first morning, huddled together with a cohort of international design journalists in front of Nordiska Kompaniet, the high-end department store – our proximity to each other necessitated as much by the sub-zero temperatures as by the desire to get as clear a view as possible into the store windows, which had been transformed into micro-exhibition spaces showing…
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