After a couple of years soul-searching Swedish brand David design seems to have reached a new degree of clarity and sense of direction, a confidence apparent in recent product releases.
Initially David design was a design select shop in Malmö, Sweden, that became a producer of furniture and lightning before transforming into a platform for trend research. Then, a couple of years ago, founder David Carlson decided to focus on new commitments, and sold the brand with its back catalogue and the shop, which lives on under a new identity.
After parting ways, David design worked mainly with contract markets but like other producers had to adapt new strategies faced with the current paradigm like shift that the design business is undergoing. David design emerged with a design strategy, not dissimilar to other new nordic brands, pivoting towards the consumer market with affordable designs by both internationally renowned names such as CKR, Inga Sempé and Luca Nichetto and emerging talents like Daniel Enoksson and Axel Bjurström.
In anticipation of the new collection to be unveiled at Stockholm Light and Furniture Fair we look at a selection of or our recent favorites:
Haida is a solid ash armchair designed by Canadian Patty Johnson, inspired by the techniques and architecture of the indigenous Haida nation.
The Pluvial sofa tables are simple volumes of spun and powder coated aluminum, an unusual combination of material and functionality by Argentinian industrial designer Frederico Churba.
With its bent steel frame with a leather seat Axel Bjurström’s Hammock is a contemporary take on mid-century design iconography, in the vein of Charlotte Perriand.
Extremely productive designer Luca Nichetto’s Coccola table is a solid sand casted aluminum top attached to three oak legs.