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...lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them into his nonstylized fountain. Explained Junyer: "Water is such a nice thing, it should be treated nicely...
Over 30% of Stockholm's buildings which were raised during the ten years following the display of Asplund's architecture in new public buildings were built according to the modern theorier of design...
...city planning and building program which makes the Swedish capital a number one town in appearance war inspired by the Stockholm Exposition of 1930. The pavilions were all designed by one architect, Professor E. C. Asplund, and showed the influence of modern theories of design, while they steered well clear of the "modernistic" and exaggerated themes exploited by the recent American expositions...
...testimony could the captain of the San Juan give. He, Capt. Adolph F. Asplund, grizzled 65-year-old sea dog, had gone down with his ship. Strangely, it had been a "friendship" voyage for him. For three years retired, he had accommodated a brother captain desirous of a vacation...