ABSTRACT
The process of designing modern Norway began in earnest in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Modern industry and technology transformed people’s everyday lives. Postal services, steamship transport, railways, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, newspapers and magazines revolutionized communication and information infrastructures, facilitating a national economy and a nationwide market. The same integration also consolidated a sense of national community whilst simultaneously bringing the world closer. The ‘safety’ bicycle, the electric tram, electric lighting and the typewriter are other examples of the new technological modernity that contributed to massive societal and cultural changes.1
