Nordic Kicks, Formex's Trend Restaurant, offers visitors a unique design and culinary experience. Stylist Jan Rundgren interprets the season's trends and the menu is selected in collaboration with Thomas Andreasson, Chef at Mässrestauranger. Famous Chef Tina Nordström also makes a guest appearance. This is the first time a Guest Chef will compose a dish specifically for Formex.
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair has invited designer Emma Olbers, interior stylist Susanna Vento and interior stylist Christine Rudolph to create the fair’s Trends Exhibition 2016/17. They will each get to design their own area: the outdoors area, the Teatime & Playtime room and the meeting room, respectively. The theme for all three is Nature is back for good!
Nordbygg presents a new arrangement that will facilitate and stimulate international business exchanges within the construction and real estate sector. Nordbygg will be held 5-8 of April 2016 at Stockholmsmässan. The event attracts around 900 exhibitors and 53,000 visitors and is organized in partnership with leading associations in the Swedish industry.
Raw materials and waste products from the forest are predicted to become very important to tomorrow’s climate-smart manufacturing. Green carbon fibre, bioplastics, synthetic petrol and “tech-talking” packaging are some of the futuristic products to be showcased at International Wood Biorefining Week from 24 to 26 May next year at Stockholmsmässan.
January 20-23, 2016, marks the kick-off for the spring season in the interior design and gifts industry at the trade fair Formex. Visitors will be able to try their hand at shibori - a Japanese coloring technique - and browse through an exhibition dedicated to textile designer, Gunila Axén.
The Jury has now selected the exhibitors who will be showing off their wares in Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair’s hall for young and up-and-coming designers, in 2016. Haha Sthlm, Maiju Uski and Darling Design are a few of the lucky designers and design studios to be chosen. They all have one thing in common - sustainability in the design process.
Nordic Kicks is the spring theme at Formex, the Nordic region’s largest trade fair for interior design and gifts. The theme will be presented in an inspirational exhibition that has been designed by the design group, Oddbirds. The exhibition contains three spatial environments that have been inspired in part by geometric games, churches and display windows.
For the third consecutive year, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is arranging Stockholm Design Talks, the fairs own forum for knowledge and discussions within the area of design. The theme for 2016 is Scandinavia Now, and shines a light on topics and projects that are happening now.
This coming spring’s edition of Young Designers, Formex’s platform for new talent, is set to consist of 21 selected participants from a variety of categories. Below are some of the experimental and ground-breaking products that will be on show, including handicrafts made from iron netting, designs with emotional functionality and shaped, sustainable soap.
This spring’s theme at the Formex interior design and gifts exhibition, Nordic Kicks, approaches our design heritage from several new angles. We design our interiors with a personal touch and a lot of color as well as with warmth and artistic sensitivity. The trend theme can be summarized by the phrase, "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, something given".
At Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which will be held February 9-13, 2016, the Design Bar and the Design Talks will be designed by architect Andreas Martin-Löf. Under the concept “All the fun of the fair”, he would like to create an evocative atmosphere, miles away from hard wooden chairs and simplicity. The Design Bar will be created in cooperation with award-winning chef Fredrik Eriksson.
Stockholmsmässan has become a Gold sponsor for the Swedish participation in Bocuse d’Or, the world's most well-known chef competition. At the GastroNord trade fair, which will be held April 26-29, 2016, Sweden's representative for the 2016 competition, Alexander Sjögren, will practice for the first time ever in front of an audience.
