Tallum - Gunnar Asplund's & Sigurd Lewerentz's Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm

The Woodland Cemetery outside Stockholm is a creation in a class by itself in modern architecture. Facing the landscape with its buildings is a liberating experience. Life and death sensed in one breath. For the first time, the Woodland Cemetery is presented in an excellently illustrated and magnificent volume: Tallum. Exquisite photographs by Fabio Galli illustrate this initiated portrayal of the Woodland Cemetery by architectural historian Bengt O.H. Johansson. The author describes how the two architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz transformed a gravel pit and a pine forest into a magnificent woodland cemetery.