Video: Nisse: fourteen variations of a Christmas idyll
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many people are already fed up with the classic snow globes. After all, not everyone perceives a small private house, covered with snow, as an illustration of the New Year and Christmas idyll. It was from these considerations that the series appeared Nisseconsisting of fourteen modern snow globes.
The Danish Architecture Center (DAC) recently invited four different companies to create new, more modern versions of snow globes. After all, the world is changing rapidly, and therefore their old design (a house in the snow) now seems to be something terribly outdated, long lost its relevance.
The population of developed countries is moving en masse to cities. And therefore, only complete retrogrades or retirees can dream of a calm rural life (after all, this is how snow globes depict an ideal winter world).
So, the time has come to make new designs of snow globes, taking into account the needs of modern residents of the metropolis. Moreover, to make several options at once, thereby emphasizing the variability inherent in our time to absolutely everything.
On the new snow globes, united in the Nisse series, we see the Christmas idyll the way all kinds of people would like to see it. This is a drinking binge in a bar, and skiing, and a party in the pool, and many other options that are dear to the hearts of modern city dwellers.
But in each of these balls there is certainly an elf character. This was a must for the Danish Architecture Center. The organizers wanted to emphasize in this way that a fairy tale takes place not only in the dense countryside, but also on city streets. Urbanization, globalization, computerization and other "tions" may well be associated with folklore motives. Especially around Christmas! And for this it is not at all necessary to destroy this fairy tale, as Dina Goldstein did in her series of illustrations "Fallen Princesses" ("Fallen Princesses").
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