Stockholm is a living embodiment of the ubiquity of design ideas .Without exaggeration: at every step the interiors of the capital are shouting with ideas, ringing with design solutions, sounding at different times with engineering finds .Swedes manage to combine the most organically modern findings with national symbols, materials, means .Bars, cafes, banks, streets, metro - everything is filled with unusual and strange expressions of architectural and design ideas .The artists-developers have worked hard over everything, including the last item on our list of sites - Metro .

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At each station you are waiting for "fresco", installations, a variety of cultural and visual implementations .Moreover, the images are occupied not only by the walls traditionally intended for visual filling, but also ceilings, floors, benches, signposts .Here on the floor attracts the sight of the compass - now anyone can understand where the south, and where the north .What is the index of the stations - take the scale, the sides of the world! Here in the wall a mirror is built in which the non-existent opposite wall is reflected .And here is the stained-glass window in which the ship is placed, the prototype of the famous Vasa, the Swedish Titanic, the real Viking ship, whose heart sits .As one excellent writer says: "In the storm, like during a traffic jam in a metropolis, it is best to navigate the bottom" .Apparently, this is what the architects and designers of the Stockholm metro meant by establishing the ancient symbol of the sea and Sweden underground .

Some stations of the Stockholm metro are painted in the form of a forest and emerald Scandinavian distances .Others represent pedestrian streets of the 18-19th centuries, with black and white signs, road markings, old-fashioned views of sidewalks and the carriageway .One way or another, feelings, or rather feelings, do not leave here - for they are confused, confused, unique .Feeling that you are visiting a museum, a nightclub, that you are thrown a hero into a fairy tale, and now you will certainly need to save the princess, rescue the gnome, find a treasure in the mountains .But no, you just need to choose the direction and take the train you need to get to some of Stockholm's many attractions .