This autumn's Formex will include several new features focusing on Nordic design: the event will have a new “Nordic Area” product zone, a new annual exhibition by Nordic designers and a newly-established award “Årets kvinnliga designer” (Female designer of the year).
More than 800 wines competed in 38 different classes, setting a new record when the Vinordic Wine Challenge took place in Stockholm in April. Gold, silver and bronze winners were named for each different type of wine, and you can find the most affordable wines in Sweden here.
2010 was a record year for Stockholmsmässan, Scandinavia’s largest exhibition and congress center. The turnover figure of SEK 736 million was the company’s highest ever, and profit reached SEK 20 million. Stockholmsmässan’s activities also generated SEK 4.1 billion for the capital’s business community, another record high in the company’s history.
This autumn’s trend theme at Formex exudes austere and modern retro, mixed with an aesthetic that radiates a congenial, timeless and relaxed elegance - Cosy Minimalism. Warmth, harmony and balance are the catchwords for the season.
Last weekend saw the end of the 60th Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair at Stockholmsmässan. This year’s exhibition was the largest ever held in Scandinavia, and Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair have consolidated their position as the most important meeting place in the world for Nordic design.
Formex is continuing its positive progress. The spring exhibition saw more exhibitors than ever before, 833 compared with 781 the previous spring. Formex also beat the visitor record, with a total of 26,729, which is an increase of 5 % compared with record figures from the previous spring. Interest from abroad continues to grow; the number of foreign visitors increased by 18 %.
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.
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.
This is the fifth time in a row that a young Swedish designer has been invited to design the Young Design Lounge at Formex. This spring the task has fallen to Karin Robling. Karin is creating a backdrop entitled "The glorious life of the Maharajah".
The 20th to 23rd January sees the sixth Young Designers exhibition, the Formex platform for unestablished young designers.
An international vacation paradise, a bride for her times and insight in the shape of design to come. This and much more is for the visitors to see at Formex, 20-23 January, 2011, in some of the inspirational exhibits offered by the exhibition.
