northmodern is quickly gaining recognition for being one of the most important events in Scandinavia for new Nordic brands and emerging designers to participate in.
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3 Days of Design
Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design has come a long way in just a few years. What started out as a rather small, loosely organized event featuring mainly established furniture producers and interior design firms, is today a broader and more inclusive event.
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Ung Svensk Form aka Young Swedish Design is a very broad exhibition covering emerging ideas within the fields of industrial design, craft and fashion. The exhibition constitute a collection or a cross section of current best practices by some of the most relevant young creative talents on the Swedish design scene.
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Stockholm Design Weeks runs parallel to Stockholm Furniture Fair and is basically a collection of loosely related events and venues strung together throughout the city. SDW doesn’t have a central venue or main stage but but as a whole SDW – all the events, exhibitions, showrooms, parties, unofficial programs – outlines a topography of current design in the north. From the brand and producer showrooms of the Stockholm Design District to curated exhibitions such as The New Map the range is to say the least – broad.
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The Greenhouse is not only a survey of the state of Scandinavian design education, it’s first and foremost a launchpad for emerging talents, a site for smaller studios to show off new prototypes and for new alliances to form.
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Greenhouse is a section reserved for emerging talents, small studios and students and as usual it house the by far most worthwhile exhibitions.
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It’s business as usual at Stockholm Furniture Fair the uncontested main event of Scandinavian and Nordic design, with some 700 exhibitors meeting and greeting 40.000 visitors during the five day fair. Launches and releases, talks and lectures, exhibitions and awards and more of the same.
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northmodern is primarily a showcase of brands and designers associated with the new Nordic design scene that has gained momentum in recent years, but it’s also a place for emerging talents and new startups to make their presence known.
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With projects such as Collective Unconscious and The Sea Cult in their portfolio, Polish studio Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen & Maciej Jelski) has established an almost anthropological design practice. The duo’s works often explore and incorporate elements of the arcane and profound, sourcing myths, folklore and history for material and inspiration. Their current exhibition – Irrational Times – a collaboration with Swedish designer Petra Lilja and curator Magdalena Poplawska, explores recurring themes in Norse and Slavic mythology and tradition.
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The contemporary A/W 2015 sales are drawing to a close at Stockholms Auktionsverk (SAV) and Bukowskis (BUK). Following the usual order of things, the design sections focused on Scandinavian mid-century lots by Finn Juhl, Hans J Wegner and Alvar Aalto and the Swedish postmodernist generation represented by Jonas Bohlin, John Kandell and Mats Theselius.