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"title": "Melodi (Melody)",
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"id": 302021,
"title": "Design in Printed Textiles",
"description": "Design in Printed Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-September 3, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-04-07T05:00:00"
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"title": "Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design",
"description": "Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11, 2019-February 10, 2020).",
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"did_you_know": "The cut hair braid may represent a lover\u2019s lock of hair, a longstanding tradition to remember loved ones in Western cultures.",
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"description": "This whimsical pattern combines Swedish folk culture and classical mythology, depicting acts of infatuation such as carving hearts into trees and keeping a lover\u2019s lock of hair. The Greek figure Narcissus even makes an appearance on the wooden signposts as a male head engaged in a kiss with his own reflection.",
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"citation": "Harrison, Stephen and Houblou, Kate M. \"Swedish Modern Design: A new exhibition looks at the fresh fabrics and furnishings that revolutionized interior decoration.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 10-11.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 11",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2019-01/page/n5/mode/2up"
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"citation": "Spadoni, Robert. \"Midsommar: Thing Theory\". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 37:1.",
"page_number": "p. 1-16; reproduced p. 2",
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1744414"
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"biography": "Josef Sachs established the department store Nordiska Kompaniet in 1902. The store\u2019s first building opened in 1915 on Hamngaten in Stockholm and is still in operation today.",
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