On February 8th, 2011 at 3pm, ung8 – young swedish design is launched at the Greenhouse section of Stockholm’s Furniture Fair. The two awards sponsored by the Auctionhouse Lauritz.com will be presented. Thereafter the exhibition will tour Sweden and internationally, stopping in Stockholm, London, Malmö, Athens, Gothenberg, Sundsvall, Cyprus and then onto other unknown destinations.
Arik Levy, this year’s Guest of Honor, has been called both a scientist and a poet. He will be creating a relaxing lounge that encourages human contact in the Stockholmsmässan entrance hall. This is the eighth time that Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair have invited a well-known international designer to create a lounge space.
Vetenskapsman och poet har han kallats, Arik Levy - årets Guest of Honour. På Stockholmsmässans entrétorg skapar han en avspänd lounge som uppmuntrar till mänsklig kontakt. Detta är åttonde gången Stockholm Furniture Fair och Northern Light Fair bjuder in en välrenommerad internationell designer att gestalta en lounge.
Employing a variety of perspectives, ‘Hello’ invites visitors to Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair to a number of talks taking an in-depth look at WHERE, WHEN and HOW we hold meetings and focusing on the public environments in which they take place.
I en mångfald av perspektiv, bjuder ”Hello” besökarna på Stockholm Furniture Fair och Northern Light Fair, på flera föredrag, som gör en djupdykning i VAR, NÄR och HUR vi har möten, med fokus på de offentliga miljöer där de äger rum.