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Press release: Gärsnäs designs an apartment at the Swedish Institute in Paris
Situated in the heart of Paris, the Institut Suédois places design at the core of its program once again, starting September 8th, 2019. Swedish Design Moves Paris comes back with two exhibitions – Hem x 6 and Designprocesser – a series of talks and visits of the renovated private apartments of the Institut Suédois in Paris where Gärsnäs has been invited to design one of them, in wings that aren’t usually open to the public.
In 2019, the Institut Suédois revealed the second stage of its renovation programme, this time focused on private areas: six apartments in the upper levels of the Hôtel de Marle. These spaces, ranging from 22 to 38m2, are open to artists and researchers based in Sweden to offer them a setting to lead their work, meet local partners or foster inspiration during 2 to 4 week-long residencies. Every year, the Institut Suédois hosts over 80 people. In this new renovation phase, the Institut suédois continued to foreground the country’s creativity and know-how. Out of the
thirty brand proposals, the Institut suédois chose six partners on the basis of three key criteria: sustainability, creativity and quality.
Gärsnäs was chosen as one of the partners and together with the Swedish designer duo Färg & Blanche they have designed a characteristic swedish home, where the established collaboration over many years between Gärsnäs and Färg & Blanche is fully presented. Alternating between the respect for the artisanal mindset and the hunger for new technology, the space reveals the creativity of this producer-creator duo. They have dreamt up a project that respects the existing architecture while adding a distinctive touch, modern and custom-made. It is with their innovative Wood tailoring technique (pieces of wood are sewn together directly with a sewing machine) that Färg & Blanche sign the space. In the entrance a 6m long oak plywood board bears a sewn motif that was designed to enhance elements like the mirror the shelves and the mural table. Treated with tones of light grey and natural wood, the studio offers a warm and welcoming cocoon under the mansard roof of one of the Hôtel de Marle’s wings. Some of the pieces, like the lighting are especially created for the space and have never been shown before.
These apartments, unavailable to the public until now, will be open for daily guided tours of about 40 minutes from September 8 to October 13 (find out the detailed times on www.institutsuedois.fr).
The Insitut Suédois is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 12.00 to 18.00 at 11 rue Payenne – 75003 Paris.
For more information, please contact:
Anna Klockby, Marketing director at Gärsnäs: +46 733 630 601, anna.klockby@garsnas.se
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Gärsnäs grundades 1893 med ambitionen att göra hållbara kvalitetsmöbler av trä. Med åren har vårt signum blivit att tänja på gränserna för vad som är möjligt med materialet. Med ledorden "hållbarhet" och "hantverk" samarbetar vi med några av Sveriges mest framstående formgivare och tillsammans skapar vi möbler som utmanar samtiden och håller i generationer. Möblerna byggs i fabriken på Österlen och visas i vårt showroom i Stockholm. Bolaget drivs av Anna och Dag Klockby tillsammans med Åke Axelsson. www.garsnas.se
Founded in 1893, Gärsnäs is a family business with its own furniture works in the village of that name, in the Österlen region of Skåne, southern Sweden, and with a showroom in Stockholm. Quality wooden furniture has been at the centre of attention right from the start, and in the joinery works craftsmanship passes by natural succession from one generation to the next. Gärsnäs has an ongoing collaboration with many leading designers, and the bounds of possibility are stretched by the convergence of craftspeople and designers. The Gärsnäs philosophy is founded on longtermism, sustainability and the details making up the whole.
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