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  • Shades of blue in Young Designers Café

    This spring’s Young Designers Café at Formex will be a creative meeting place for shades of blue, designed by Cecilia Dreyfert. This is the eighth successive time a young Swedish designer will be responsible for creating Young Designers Café, which also incorporates the Young Designers, Next Step zone and a stage area.

  • Home – a place for creativity

    A modern flower room, graphic silhouettes with a fifties and sixties mood; Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 7-11 February 2012, will be showcasing the latest trends in home furnishing and lighting in the inspirational exhibition “My Home is My Castle”.

  • Hello! – Anatomy of Organizations

    The Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 7-11 February 2012, will for the second year in a row play host to the combined exhibition and talk show Hello! This project has been initiated in order to promote discussion and provide inspiration regarding the modern workplace.

  • Game provides exhibition inspiration

    At Formex, which runs from 19 to 22 January 2012, a children's game provides the inspiration for the design of this spring's major trend theme exhibition entitled IN THE MOOD. The visitor is invited to enter a modern architectural barn, where the focus is on light, space, feelings and sensuality.

  • Mitt kök culinary exhibition sets yet another record

    This year's Mitt kök culinary exhibition broke several records; it was larger than ever before, with more competitions, and more exhibitors, journalists, visitors and personalities from the food and beverage world. A total of 36,880 'foodies' visited the exhibition.

  • Together in the Design Bar

    For the eighth year in a row, a Swedish designer or group will be creating the Design Bar at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. This time the commission goes to designer Lina Nordqvist. The focus will be meetings and the basic forms of circles and squares.

  • Dream bubbles and new dimensions at this spring’s Formex

    At Formex, 19-22 January 2012, we’ll be getting in touch with our five senses. This spring’s trend theme “In the mood for a new season” underscores the importance of sensuality: our senses of touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste. Our home is our personal mood board where we collect, arrange and display objects that arouse memories and feelings.

  • Elite chefs gather at ‘Kockarnas Krog’

    Several of Sweden’s foremost chefs will open a restaurant together under Stockholmsmässan’s roof at the ‘Mitt kök’ culinary event on November 10-13. Over four days, visitors will have the chance to see a unique collaboration and sample seven specially-created dishes at Kockarnas Krog (Chefs’ restaurant).

  • Re-branding Stockholm Furniture Fair, Northern Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week

    The world's biggest meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design now has a new communicative platform. "This will further strengthen the brand and give us the opportunity to clarify the link between Stockholm Furniture Fair, Northern Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week," says Event Manager Cecilia Nyberg.

  • Inga Sempé is Guest of Honour 2012

    For the ninth year running, an international designer will be responsible for creating a lounge in the Stockholmsmässan entrance hall. This time the task falls to French industrial and product designer Inga Sempé, who has won much attention and appreciation for her designs.

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