Whenever my aunt comes to visit we always go to her favorite store: Svenskt Tenn. When I was younger I could never understand what she liked about it. It had all this really ugly furniture and strange cloth which never really managed to impress me. My strongest memory from these visits is from when they had a sale on pillows with Josef Frank designs and my aunt got down on her hands and knees so that she could reach the pillows farthest in on the bottom shelf. She actually crawled around on the floor in public just so that she could get the pillow with the ugliest birds on. I just didn't get it.
But as the years have passed my aunt's taste has rubbed off. Now I (and as it turns out, the rest of Sweden as well) worship Josef Frank almost just as much as my aunt. I haven't gotten to the crawling-on-the-ground-for-pillows stage yet, but it's coming. Right now my focus is bags, but being a poor student I can't afford one. "No problem though," I thought. "I can just make one! I'll find some cheap Josef Frank-imitation cloth and the rest should be easy!" But I was oh so wrong. I found the cloth no problem, IKEA has started selling a wonderful group of cloths that have the whole Josef Frank-feel at very low prices. But the frame is impossible to find! The hobby shops here in Sweden only sell small frames, so my project will have to be put on ice for a while...
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