New exhibition focuses on architect Wenche Selmer’s ideas about simple cabins

Oslo's National Museum of Norway's new exhibition - Wenche Selmer: What Can You Live Without? - looks at Norwegian architect Wenche Selmer who cultivated an ideal of a rich life lived with simple means using drawings, notes, photography and a full size cabin.

Running until October 4, the exhibtion concentrates on the Norwegian cabins and wooden houses that Wenche Selmer (1920–1998) designed as part of her approach to architecture; she regarded the cabin as a metaphor for a simple, good life, asking her clients “What can you live without?”.

The museum has made use of the exhibition space's considerable size by installing a full-scale version of Selmer’s prototype Beach house cabin inside the exhibition. Visitors can enter the cabin, go upstairs, and even lie down on the bed.

Pictured above, the full-scale cabin, photo by Andreas Harvik. Top image: Summer House for Aarnæs (1952) photo by Jens Selmer. 

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