In her 2017 book, the gentle art of swedish death cleaning, available on amazon, magnusson explores the concept of swedish death cleaning, or dostadning, the process of organizing, decluttering, and giving away your belongings when you think the time is coming closer for you to leave the planet. Editions for the gentle art of swedish death cleaning. In the new book the gentle art of swedish death cleaning january 2018, scribner, margareta magnusson, a swedish artist who lists her age as 80 to 100, lays out the decluttering trend. Margareta graduated from beckmans college of design and her art has been exhibited in galleries from hong kong to singapore.
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