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Uglycute have made it their mission to help raise awareness of forgotten Swedish designers from decades past, so one of those exhibitions held in their office space highlighted the work of Curt Lagerström and Anders Söderberg — both in their 70s now — which they found in an old catalog from an influential 1982 exhibition at Kulturhuset, called Provocations. It featured the work of Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group alongside a group of young Swedish designers who were working in a similar spirit. “We sometimes talk about how Swedish design history has 20 missing years, between 1980 and 2000,” Nobel says. “In a sense it’s true I think.”