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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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03/12/201403/10/2018

Future Strategies

During the past years we visited a number of exhibitions that in different capacities presented ideas and speculations on the future.In Panorama Konstantin Grcic draws from his own works, Sense No-sense examine recent Dutch design experience and technology and The Fab Mind consider design approaches to social issues. Closer to home, curator Petra Lilja departed from recent resurrection of craft for The Future is Handmade, outlining the current state of craft-oriented design and studio production. It’s a diverse collection of obejcts ranging from more traditional craft (Carsten Nilsson) to conceptual projects (Studio Formafanstasma) using newly developed manufacturing methods (Staffan Holm).