An ele­gant explo­ra­ti­on of the huge­ly influ­en­ti­al sim­pli­ci­ty, beau­ty, and func­tio­n­a­li­ty of Nor­dic design — timeless, yet on trend From lite­ra­tu­re to food, life­style to fashion, cine­ma to archi­tec­tu­re, Nor­dic influ­ence is evi­dent throughout con­tem­pora­ry cul­tu­re. “The Red Thread: Nor­dic Design” cele­bra­tes this deep-roo­ted aes­the­tic, show­ca­sing the diver­si­ty of design from Scan­di­na­via and Fin­land via more than 200 objects — from ever­y­day items to exqui­si­te­ly pro­du­ced deco­ra­ti­ve glass­wa­re, and from tra­di­tio­nal hand­ma­de tex­ti­les to mass-pro­du­ced pro­ducts found in homes across the globe.

The tit­le is taken from a meta­phor, com­mon in the Nor­dic coun­tries, of a shared and high­ligh­ted cha­rac­te­ris­tic (like a long con­nec­ting thread in woven mate­ri­al), that runs through and con­nects the­mes, ide­as, sto­ries, and, in this case, design.