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14/03/201503/10/2018

Korint from Snickeriet, haute carpentry

While most new nordic brands go for affordability, flat-packing and on-line availability, Swedish Snickeriet has gone the other way with master carpentry, bespoke production and an impossible attention to details. Their latest piece, Korint, is a testament to this approach.

05/03/2015

Stockholm Design Week p.3

Although the Stockholm Furniture Fair is the center of Stockholm Design Week, there are plenty of venues and events around the city showcasing an immense amount of talent For this third, and much delayed installment, we’ll have a look at the some of these events including the Örnsberg Auction, Cray Collective and We Live Here.

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26/02/201503/10/2018

Objects of Use, Anne Dorthe Vester & Maria Bruun

The Objects of Use collection is an architect – designers collaboration between Copenhagen based Anne Dorthe Vester and Maria Bruun that was recently awarded with the National Solo Award at Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition. The Objects of Use contains objects that are seemingly familiar but not quite recognizable.

21/02/2015

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2015, selected p.2: Greenhouse

Greenhouse is a separate space within the Stockholm Furniture Fair showcasing design school projects and up-and-coming designers, needless to say this is usually the most interesting place at the fair. All participants are selected by a jury, some of which have started out in the Greenhouse themselves, for example Jens Fager of this year’s jury. The stage for this year’s edition of the Greenhouse was designed by Note Design Studio.

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12/02/2015

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2015, selected highlights, p.1

The Stockholm Furniture Fair, the heart of Stockholm Design Week, is the premier venue, next to Milan, for Scandinavian and Nordic designers, producers and general agents to show off their goods. Although its mainly a trade show for big established brands it’s also a great place to spot emerging talents and small producers.

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31/01/201503/10/2018

The 9,5° Chair by B°Fex – art with function, design without

If you don’t know B°Fex, aka, Rasmus Bækkel Fex, and were only told that he is a Danish designer working mainly with traditional furniture types, you will most definitely get the wrong idea.

22/01/201503/10/2018

Iskos-Berlin – the story, not the history

Following the previous post we feel we should say a few more words about the design duo Iskos-Berlin. Although the studio has only been around since 2010, founders Boris Berlin and Aleksej Iskos are veterans on the nordic design scene. Berlin co-founded, with Paul Christiansen, legendary Komplot Design studio in 1987 where also Iskos worked as an assistant.

16/01/201503/10/2018

Fiber Chair, Iskos-Berlin for Muuto

Copenhagen based studio Iskos-Berlin has a very particular way of consolidating organic form with industrial design aesthetics and the Fiber Chair for Muuto is their characteristic take on the iconic shell chair. A while back we stumbled upon some versions of the chair at Muuto HQ.

12/01/201503/10/2018

Now Available – The Keystone by OS Δ OOS for PWTBS

We were sorry to see innovative interior retailer Please Wait To Be Seated close down its gallery on Borgergade in Copenhagen, however they have not been idle and now return with their first own production designed by ingenious Dutch studio OS Δ OOS.

08/01/201503/10/2018

Manufactured landscape: Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed

Following the grey and damp Riverbed through the bright white rooms, searching for its source, I can’t shake the feeling of walking through an inverted version of Superstudio’s landscape collages.