Roots and heritage -
Twelve Åland homes
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- Well, sure, I have been in Åland. The boat stopped suddenly in the middle of the night. I looked out of the window, but it was dark and you couldn’t see anything.
This is a fairly common image of the islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea. My own view was colored by early family stories about relatives on the other side of the bay. In my childhood ears it sounded like a seance in touch with the dead on the ”other side”.
Over there. On the other side. How do people live their lives? How do they live, what are their style and taste? How do they think and function? What do their habits, codes and unwritten rules look like? After many years in major Swedish cities, I returned to my roots with the ambition to find out.
My way back to the roots went through the women, who let me photograph their homes. You see the result in this book.
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Out on the rocks you will find everything from Åland’s own maritime heritage to the Finnish superstars in design heaven. Everything from captain gardens to Space Age plastic house, ranging from home-made to design icons. Everything from foreign influences taken home to local designers who are exporting their ideas to distant lands.
Of course, the clash of cultures presented themselves, even though I thought I kvew my roots inside and out. What has the archipelago to give urban people beyond the most obvious as resort for a few short weeks in the summer? And what has big cities to give the archipelago?
Some answers and a salty way in to Aland, this book tells the story in a personal way, presented along with inspiring images.
