Färgfabriken
Former nineteenth-century factory hall of brick and iron, once making weapons and paint, now a contemporary art space.
This guide to Färgfabriken in Stockholm follows an 1889 factory hall built not for paint but for reaping machines and an early machine gun, under its first owner, inventor Helge Palmcrantz. It traces the paint company that moved in in 1902, the roughly seventy years of pigment that followed, and the abandonment after the machines fell silent in the 1970s. It closes with the unlikely rescue in 1995, when a paint firm, an artists' association and an architects' union joined forces to save the building's factory bones. Notice how little the raw brick and iron pillars around you have had to change.
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