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Offecct News 2018 - Jacket by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Offecct News 2018 - Jacket by Claesson Koivisto Rune

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​A chair with a clear purpose, from Claesson Koivisto Rune for Offecct

Stockholm based Claesson Koivisto Rune is one of the world's most respected architectural firms. They have created a series of acclaimed furniture for Offecct in the past. The result now is a characteristic chair with a clear purpose.

– Offecct's 2018 news collection is summarized under the motto: Furniture with a mission, that is, every piece of furniture has a clear task that helps people navigate the increasingly thorny landscape that separates away from home, public from private, work from leisure, explains Offecct's Design Manager Anders Englund. Besides being comfortable to sit in, the novelty Jacket has a highly pronounced mission.

The architects behind Jacket readily acknowledge that the basic idea behind the chair is not new. At a continental auction house, they spotted a fifties chair with similar pretensions: to serve both as a chair and a jacket, cardigan or suit jacket hanger. Claesson Koivisto Rune has made their interpretation.

– Good design can involve ensuring that clothes do not lose their good shape. But more importantly: Good design involves precisely not being too explicit, emphasises architect Eero Koivisto. Otherwise, the magic is lost. As a designer, you are also not allowed to be too sublime. If you understand the idea of the chair, you will never forget it when you leave the room.

Bio Claesson Koivisto RuneFounded in Stockholm in 1995 by architects and designers Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune, Claesson Koivisto Rune is Sweden’s internationally most renowned and celebrated architect and design studio. The multidisciplinary studio’s wide range of projects includes buildings, hotels, homes, shops, exhibitions and much more worldwide, as well as interior design commissions of all kinds from world leading brands and producers. Claesson Koivisto Rune has been awarded an array of international prizes and has been featured in hundreds of books and exhibitions, attracting vast global media coverage.

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Offecct AB is a entrepreneur- led company with its headquarters and production in Tibro, Sweden. The company was founded in 1990 by Kurt Tingdal (CEO) and Anders Englund (Design Manager). They are both still actively involved in the company. The group has 75 employees and sales of SEK 180 million. The business is run in own premises which have a total area of around 20 000 m 2. The company has showrooms in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Tibro (SE), Oslo (NO), Copenhagen (DK), London (UK), Rotterdam (NL) and Milan (IT). Offecct is since 2017 a part of the Flokk Group - the market leader in the design, development and production of workplace furniture in Europe. Read more on flokk.com 

For more information, please contact:
PR manager Katarina Fellbrant, +46(0)709 99 77 71, katarina.fellbrant@offecct.se
Press support and images: Linn Engelmark, +46 (0)70 87 20 215, linn.engelmark@offecct.se

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Press contact Brand Manager +46 701 49 10 81

Good design inspire and encourage creativity. This is sometimes felt rather than seen, like through a comfortable position in a furniture, or in a perfect acoustic environment.

Offecct started with a vision to create the meeting places of the future, where beauty and innovation go hand in hand with functionality. While our origin is Swedish, the philosophy has always been borderless and characterised by an international perspective on Scandinavian design. This is why we collaborate with the world’s most creative architects and designers. Together we affect spaces. We explore ideas that are innovative and push concepts of work – balancing the radical and the functional.
Spaces in which you work and socialise flow between the analog and digital realms. This experience should be as easy and frictionless as possible. We develop our collection with this in mind. And to make sure that our clients get the assistance they need to complete their vision, we are committed to find solutions. A free service is activated once you make a purchase from us. It means that we are there for you to help develop and execute proposals based on our extensive collection, in a knowledgeable and professional way.

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