Möbelhistorien är full av parenteser, det vill säga möbler som figurerat i korta perioder, aldrig slagit igenom, glömts bort eller rent av försvunnit. Vi var övertygade om att det bland alla dessa mer eller mindre bortglömda möbler fanns exemplar som var värda att lyfta fram och undersöka. Genom att undersöka dessa möbler har vi förstått deras historia och sammanhang, tagit reda på och reflekterat kring varför de blivit just en parentes i möbelhistorien samt förstått för vilket syfte de var skapade och hur de har använts. Ambitionen med undersökningen har varit att genom att skapa en känsla och förståelse för möblerna hitta de exemplar som lämpar sig väl att stå som förebilder för nya koncept och produkter. Genom att beskriva möblernas ursprungliga syfte, användning, funktioner och kontext såg vi möjligheter för produktuppdateringar och funktionsförskjutningar. Vi har gjort ett urval baserat på en historia om ett fiktivt företag, ett litet företag som skall lansera en liten sammanhållande kollektion beståendes av exklusiva möbler av hög kvalitet. Kollektionens syfte är att inspirera till användning och att skapa stiliga, rogivande platser i hemmet. Konceptet för den tänkta kollektionen styrde de kriterier och diskussioner som låg som grund för det urval vi gjorde när vissa möbler lyftes upp och inspirerade till nya koncept. Syftet med vårt arbete är att visa på ett sätt att arbeta där vi som möbelsnickare, genom en undersökning av historiska möbler, skapar en sammanhållen kollektion baserad på historiska förebilder. Arbetet har resulterat i en kollektion bestående av fyra möbler som formgivits i samarbete med externa formgivare och arkitekter. / The history of furniture is full of parentheses, furniture that appeared for short periods of time, was never a big hit, was forgotten or even disappeared. We were convinced that amongst all these more or less forgotten pieces of furniture there were examples worthy of rediscovery and renaissance. By examining these pieces of furniture, we have understood their history and context, found out and reflected upon why they where never more than a parenthesis in the history of furniture, and, last but not least, we have gained an understanding of the purpose of their creation and how they were used. Our ambition with this research - by creating a feeling and an understanding of the furniture - has been to find the pieces that are well suited to act as models for new concepts and products. By describing the furniture’s original purpose, functions and context, we saw opportunities for product updates and rearrangement of form and function. We have made a selection based on a story of a fictitious company, a small company planning to put on the market a coherent collection of exclusive furniture of high quality. The purpose of the collection is to inspire to use and to create stylish, restful places in your home. The concept of the collection guided the criteria and discussions that were the basis of the choices we made when particular pieces of furniture were selected to generate new concepts. The purpose of our work was to show a process of working where we, as cabinet-makers, by means of examining historic furniture, create a coherent collection based on historic models. Our work has resulted in a collection of four pieces of furniture that have been modeled in co-operation with external designers and architects.

This thesis deals with the cultural efforts of the Swedish labour movement during the periodof 1917-1939. It aims to examine the similarities and differences between social democratsand communists in their approach towards culture.My theoretical guidelines are the dialectic and materialistic view on history as set forth byKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels.I have examined some important individuals in the cultural debate within the Swedish labourmovement, such as Ture Nerman and Arthur Engberg, and I also briefly outline the debate inthe Soviet Union from the classics of Lenin and Stalin.I have found that the social democrats were mainly concerned with a democratic distributionof the existing bourgeois culture rather than working for the creation of a new proletarianculture; the communists on the other hand made considerable efforts to benefit the workers'own culture based on class struggle, but failed to threaten the social democratic ideologicalhegemony among the Swedish working class.

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 41).

The purpose of this study is to address a period in Swedish political history when the politicization of the Church of Sweden was formed, a politicization that still exist. How this period came about is viewed through the writings and speeches of an important member of the Social democratic party, Arthur Engberg, who became Minister of Education and Religion in the first Swedish social democratic government in 1932. Prior to being a minister, Engberg first argued to immediately separate the church from the state. Later, he argued that the church first must be reformed by the state before the separation can take place. The question addressed in the study is, if Engberg continued his efforts as a minister, 1932­–1939, or if he instead, as some implies, aligned with the church? The most authoritative literature when studying Engberg is Beltzén Arthur Engberg – publicist och politiker (Arthur Engberg – publicist and politician) from 1973 which suggest that he did follow his early intensions. This is however contradicted by a contemporary prominent party member, Rickard Lindström in an article in Tiden 1946. The method applied to study this question was to research Engberg’s writings and speeches in a chronological order and to put them into context with the parallel processes of the formation of the Christian Socialist Group and with the internal reformation of the church.  The conclusions drawn by the study is that Engberg became a defender of the church as the cultural institution he wanted it to be. He had come to realize that the church could be accepted and even useful for managing the religious matter of the state. As such it must be controlled by the state and a separation between state and church is not necessary in the foreseeable future.