Hello from Iceland! I discovered this magazine when visiting Tallinn last year. I bought a few copies at Raamatukoi and have just received a few more issues. I am translating the articles and plan on constructing some of the furniture in the plans. I wanted to ask the Eesti community.

1/ Does anyone have more interesting info on the publication? Interesting to know the history and what’s become of the many authors and editors.
2/ Excuse my ignorance, but is this still in copyright? I would love to scan and publish them with translated articles, so more people learn about this super interesting part of art history.
3/ Were there other similar magazines?
4/ If you have issues I am a willing collector.

Thanks!

by Competitive_Switch97

5 comments

  1. Never heard of it till today, this is priceless. Somebody (you?) should quality upload all of the content onto some online blog space for everyone to enjoy.

  2. You might get good responses and co-work with the Estonian architecture museum: [info@arhitektuurimuuseum.ee](mailto:info@arhitektuurimuuseum.ee)

    …and/or the Estonian museum of applied arts & design: [info@etdm.ee](mailto:info@etdm.ee)

    Smart and enthusiastic people working there.

    Looking at the chairs it might be such that they were copied from pan-Soviet materials and then distributed further via this magazine.

  4. Because it was published during the soviet occupation, it might not be in any copyright today.

    Or, there might be some sort of authors copyright, as in the people who did the drawings and who did the writing own their portions.

    Although, I would think, sharing them as “not for profit” wouldn’t be a problem.

    Personally, these drawings look amazing, and I wouldn’t mind doing a few of them as upblown prints, as silkscreens on canvas or sth.

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