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Central Swedish firm Offecct (located far, far away from Ikea in Skaraborg) won the 2010 Red Dot Award for two products, including Fly, a lounge chair designed by Patrick Norguet. A piece that serves for both indoor and outdoor living areas, Fly is patterned after a kabuto. What is a kabuto? Read more…
Three first-year Master’s students from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm have banded together as Whatswhat Collective to show their new lighting exhibition at ICFF entitled Potential Energy. Read more…
If you’ve seen the movie Pane e tulipani, then you’re aware of how many Europeans take advantage of space, finding niches for almost everything, inventing multi-purpose furnishings, and generally thinking outside the box. Read more…
I could think of uncanny pairings, but even so I would undoubtedly fail to come up with Swedish/Spanish. Despite my lack of vision, there is indeed a Swedish/Spanish design studio (based in Sweden) Read more…
I love contradiction. I especially like companies that embrace contradiction. Zero of Stockholm is one such company. The lighting firm believes in being inspired “by your heart” Read more…
Swedish design cooperative Fulo presented their unique Oblique this past February at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010. Inspired by boring dinner parties at grandmother’s house, this shelving system offers compartments galore. And that’s the idea. You see, as children, the designers liked to entertain themselves Read more…
Swedish company Vauni is rethinking fire: “the fundamental nature of what fire brings about—warmth, harmony, joy—must never be overlooked.” The company admits the difficulty inherent in the design process: “Designing a fireplace that paraphrases the profound tradition of wood-burning represents a great challenge.” Read more…
Not so long ago Joseph Starr wrote about Non Chair and Table, a versatile indoor/outdoor pair (in use at the MOMA no less), which is both practical and simple—and, despite the name, indeed a chair and table. One of the more famous offerings of Källemo, the Swedish anti-Ikea founded in 1965 by the unusual Sven Lundh, Read more…
Swedish design group Kredema is composed of a couple who obviously do not tire of each other in stereotypical sitcom fashion. They explain, “We are both very creative and are not afraid to take on new challenges. Since we are married and living together, a large part of our lives is about design.” Read more…
“A recurrent departure point for TAF projects is that everyday objects by their very commonness can be made uncommon,” explain Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom, the design duo of Stockholm-based TAF, and “ordinary life, less ordinary.” The most striking aspect of their work is its simplicity – Read more…
