Shopping Spree – Part 7

Stores: Shopping Spree – Part 7

We haven’t visited the golden age of shopping for a while, so why not take a waltz down the aisles once again. This time we are focusing on the Swedish department store chain Domus (house in latin). It was owned by the Consumer Corporation (KF) who in their glory days had over 200 stores throughout the country. Sadly, business was slowly beginning to come to a halt in the 1980s and many of the bigger stores were redeveloped to mini malls or sold. Personally I think that the Domus stores still are the coolest stores ever to exist and Sweden and I miss them in a silly – but kitschy way. For those who are interested in learning more about Domus, there is a great documentary by Swedish filmmaker Anders Wahlgren available.


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February 19th, 2008

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  • Charles

    YesterSweden is gorgeous!

  • Anonymous

    I swear I’ve seen that top picture of the Domus before. I shall have to look for it now.

  • Insonrible

    I love your blog. Congratulations!

  • janepeepshow

    So…while i’m here, thought i’d comment on this post too.

    So what’s so kitschy about Domus??

  • Chris

    What is NOT kitschy about it? :) It’s everything yesterSweden was about, the colors, the design, the architecture.

    Of course not all stores were like that, but they all have a certain something. And what about that logo, that symbol of eternity. Brilliant. You might have also seen KF’s headquarters in Stockholm? Kind of famous landmark.

    http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Katarinahissen_from_Katarinav%C3%A4gen_2005-08-09.JPG

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