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Pictures courtesy of Carina Seth Andersson and Fogia that includes Dice
1. Dice by Carina Seth Andersson for Fogia
Swedish glass artist Carina Seth Andersson has lengthy been a grasp of fabric, and at this 12 months’s Stockholm Design Week, her sought-after Dice vase for Fogia made a welcome return – this time up to date simply in time for spring in a recent palette of Mocha, Ochre, Linen and Pink.
Initially designed in 2018, Dice is mouth-blown at Skruf Glassworks in Småland – an space house to a few of Sweden’s most well-known glassworks – every bit is handmade and distinctive. Each modern and timeless, Andersson has reinvented an icon of Swedish design for the subsequent technology.
Pictures by Pol Rebaque, courtesy of MycoWorks Inventive Studio that includes Studio Tooj’s DUK
At Andrea Tsang Studio, Stockholm-based Studio Tooj exhibited DUK, an set up that performed with materiality and notion. Whereas the piece appeared as a draped material or a sculpture carved out of stone, the designers confirmed the capabilities of Reishi, an modern biomaterial grown from mycelium.
Partnering with biotech pioneers MycoWorks, the intentional visible ambiguity of DUK stands on the coronary heart of Studio Tooj’s method. Every bit options nature’s distinctive imprint, with Reishi’s supple texture enhancing the design’s illusive qualities, exhibiting that the way forward for design lies within the surprising.
Pictures courtesy of NJRD
3. NJRD
With its newly unveiled assortment, VIOR, Swedish model NJRD places a contemporary twist on Scandinavian design classics. Designed by Bernadotte & Kylberg, the items draw inspiration from structure, nature and the on a regular basis moments that outline house.
VIOR marks the model’s first foray into furnishings. Discovering its inspiration within the Previous Norse phrase for ‘wooden’, the gathering options fantastically crafted eating tables, chairs and a reimagined kitchen couch. Grounded in craftsmanship and a recognisable Nordic aesthetic, VIOR displays NJRD’s appreciation of simplicity – one element at a time.
Pictures courtesy of Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng
4. Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng
At Stockholm Furnishings Truthful, Oslo-dwelling designer Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng continued her exploration of kind, materials and course of with putting new items at Älvsjö Gård. Recognized for her intuitive method to design, Øfstedal Eng blurs the boundary between perform and sculpture, permitting the wooden itself to dictate the ultimate form of every piece.
Carved by hand in her Fjellhamar studio, the gathering attracts inspiration from nature – twisting branches, sprawling roots and lifting stones altering the panorama over time. Utilizing surplus wooden from previous tasks, the younger designer laminates offcuts to create surprising compositions and layered, fluid types.
Pictures courtesy of Baux
5. X-Felt by Baux
Swedish acoustics model Baux unveiled its newest innovation at Stockholm Design Week – the X-Felt assortment, a collaboration with design studio Kind Us With Love. Providing large-format acoustic panels and tiles created from ultra-fine polyester fibres sourced from GRS-certified PET, X-Felt eliminates the necessity for dangerous fire-retardant therapies.
Discovering its design cues in meditative Japanese Zen gardens, the gathering introduces what Baux calls ‘zenseful acoustics’, reworking sound into a component of spatial concord to create areas that promote focus and wellbeing. With precision-cut patterns and a palette of strong and duo-tone colors, the panels enable for fluid compositions that combine throughout partitions and ceilings.
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