http://www.ultraswank.net Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:59:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-10/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-10/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:15:46 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=2983 Let’s kick off the new year by spending some of that hard earned money at the local shopping center. Perhaps a new color television, that black suit that’s now on sale or why not a new kitchen appliance for the wifey? There is something for everyone. Where shall we go first? Montgomery Ward, SS Kresgne, [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-10/feed/ 2 http://www.ultraswank.net/readable/ikea-design-and-identity-through-the-years/ http://www.ultraswank.net/readable/ikea-design-and-identity-through-the-years/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:39:34 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1929 This book looks really swell! There are probably no one left in the world who hasn’t heard about IKEA with its affordable build-it-your-self-furniture concept. Ingvar Kamprad, the man behind IKEA was only seventeen when started his soon to be blooming enterprise in 1943. Ten years later he opened his first IKEA store in Sweden. Today [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/readable/ikea-design-and-identity-through-the-years/feed/ 3 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-9/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-9/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:13:47 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1195 Don’t know what to spend that extra cash on? Don’t worry, there is still time. Our stores are open at convenient times and located just around the corner here in Yester Sweden. Today we are traveling back in time to visit Stockholm and Hudiksvall (north of Stockholm) where you can slowly waltz through the many [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-9/feed/ 8 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/more-photos-from-vala-centrum/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/more-photos-from-vala-centrum/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:25:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/more-photos-from-vala-centrum/ I found some more photos of my favorite shopping mall in southern Sweden – Väla Centrum. It was built in 1974 outside of Helsingborg and took its inspiration from American shopping malls at the time – meaning that it didn’t look very Scandinavian or traditional, which I really love. It even had a birdcage with [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/more-photos-from-vala-centrum/feed/ 5 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/vala-centrum/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/vala-centrum/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:51:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/vala-centrum/ Väla Centrum is a shopping mall located in southern Sweden just outside of Helsingborg. Been planing on writing about it for a long time now but have not been able to find anything useful – until now. This is the mall I grew up with. Many many Friday evenings and Saturdays were spent here when [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/vala-centrum/feed/ 13 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/taby-centrum-1976/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/taby-centrum-1976/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:27:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/taby-centrum-1976/ This is a cut from a educational promotion film that explains some aspects on why Täby Centrum was built. The film is in Swedish and narrated by the architect of the center who explains some particulars about it. If you look closely you will see the Domus sign in the background on the second floor [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/taby-centrum-1976/feed/ 4 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-5/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-5/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:05:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/shopping-spree-part-5/ Time for another peek at the past shopping experiences. This time we are leaving Sweden to have a look at some photos from an American shopping center. Since most of the Swedish malls and shopping centers that was built in the 50s, 60s and 70s all took their inspiration from the American malls, I thought [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-5/feed/ 5 http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-2/ http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-2/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:21:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/shopping-spree-part-2/ Time for another visit to yesteryears shopping malls in Sweden, this time focusing on a gem located in the suburbs of Gothenburg in the southwest parts of Sweden. The Frölunda Torg mall was built in 1966 and was by its completion the biggest mall in Europe. It took seven years and 80 million Swedish Krona [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/shopping-spree-part-2/feed/ 4