What characterizes the design of countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Finland

Design in the Eastern European countries of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, and in the Scandinavian countries of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, developed rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century

Sweden, Denmark and Finland, in particular, saw great advances in industrial production from the thirties onwards, and the design of their products developed their own look. Artisan and craftsman Artur Lecatos, who specialized in batik prints, designed batik-printed decorative silks around 1914

Vilhelm Kaki designed tableware with blue lilies in 1917

Trying to improve the taste of design by meeting the needs of the public has always been an endeavor of modern designers in Eastern and Northern Europe, and up to the 1940s this kind of tableware still held a significant market share. The embroidered women's handbag designed by Anna Nézrai around 1914 is a Hungarian folk-art design

Sophia Struskaya's mural for the Polish pavilion at the 1925 "Exposition Mondiale des Arts Décoratifs" in Paris is a close and harmonious combination of folk art and modern design. The combination of folk art and modern design was close and harmonious

After the end of the Second World War, the decoration of organic and geometric shapes also became an important feature of the design work of the Scandinavian countries

Metalware such as those designed by Henrik Koppel for the Danish company Georg Jensen in the late 40s and 50s, glassware designed by Tapio Vikkala for the Finnish company Itala, and the design of Orefo glassware, and Orefors' designs for the Swedish glass company of Kosta Poda, show the fruits of design in the post-war Scandinavian countries