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  • Summer Design Week delivers a design party!

    Summer Design Week delivers a design party!

    It is once again time for Summer Design Week in Stockholm August 19–25. During the week, Stockholm will be filled with interesting events to celebrate Nordic Design.

  • Left: Ceramic pieces by Johanna Grahn Hollström. Right: Cribble.

    This year’s Design Talents at Formex

    Design Talents is Formex’s department for showcasing new talent, where independent designers and design groups can both sell their products and display them for buyers, partners, producers and the press/media. This year’s exhibitors include several designers with innovative ceramics, fabric patterns that highlight women's history, and a building set for children.

  • Summer Design Week in Stockholm features international design and fashion stars

    Summer Design Week in Stockholm features international design and fashion stars

    The second Summer Design Week will be held in Stockholm with an exciting program for all design and fashion enthusiasts. Fashion legend Zandra Rhodes will kick off her celebration of 50 years in the fashion industry with an exhibition at Stockholms Auktionsverk. World-famous interior designer Costas Voyatzis will also be coming to Stockholm to create a unique installation, and Moooi will visit the

  • Food of the future: worms, grasshoppers, or human flesh?

    Food of the future: worms, grasshoppers, or human flesh?

    Are humans too selfish to be able to live sustainably? Is cannibalism the solution to future food supply needs? Does Generation Z have the answers to the world's food challenges? Is it possible to trick consumers into making the right choices? The food challenges we will face in the future pose many questions. Some of them will be answered at GastroSummit at Stockholmsmässan.

  • All nominees for the Formex Nova Award 2019

    All nominees for the Formex Nova Award 2019

    The presentation of the Formex Nova Award is as usual one of the highlights during the Formex fall exhibition – it will take place on the first exhibition day August 20. ​Formex has established the Formex Nova Award – Nordic Designer of the Year, to promote high-quality Nordic design created by a still relatively unknown designer working in the Nordic interior design industry.

  • The halls are filling up for 2020 - 85 per cent of the rentable area is booked.

    Nordbygg wants to inspire the construction sector to rethink

    The work on Nordbygg 2020 is in full swing. Sales of the exhibition area that remains are ongoing and at the same time the rest of the fair content is taking shape. Everything so that visitors and exhibitors get as much as possible out of it.

  • Celebrated trend expert Li Edelkoort creates unique exhibition for Formex

    Celebrated trend expert Li Edelkoort creates unique exhibition for Formex

    At Formex, which will be held August 20-23, an object’s inherent energy will be in the spotlight in a unique exhibition created by world-famous trend expert Li Edelkoort. The inspiration behind the exhibition, which will fill Stockholmsmässan’s entire entrance hall, is animism – the belief that even inanimate objects could have a soul.

  • Many exciting changes at Formex

    Many exciting changes at Formex

    Formex – the largest and most important platform for Nordic design – will introduce a new product and hall layout in August as well as special theme days to discuss hot industry topics. "We are tightening our grip on Formex to adjust to an industry experiencing rapid change. This will also create new opportunities," says Lotta Ahlvar, Operative Event Manager for Formex.

  • GastroSummit – the gastronomic forum for the future

    GastroSummit – the gastronomic forum for the future

    On 3-4 September, GastroSummit – a totally new and unique gastronomic forum – will cater to all tastes at Stockholmsmässan. News, innovation and the food of the future are on the menu. GastroSummit consists of an inspiratonial section and a seminar section highlighting current industry themes. It is at GastroSummit you will hear of it first!

  • Hoppet is an investigative sustainability project with the goal to try to find processes and materials that lead to fossil-free construction

    Half-time for the planning of Nordbygg 2020

    Nordbygg’s range is increasing and therefore also the relevance for actors outside the industry’s absolute core. The Project Group is working hard to incorporate current topics into the fair. The focus in 2018 on digital solutions for the construction and housing sector was successful and the concept will be further developed for 2020.

  • Smart City – new event at Stockholmsmässan

    Smart City – new event at Stockholmsmässan

    In October 2020, Stockholmsmässan will introduce Smart City – Sweden’s leading meeting place for smart cities and urban innovation. Transport solutions of the future, smart properties, digital transformation and a generally better and more sustainable urban environment are some of the topics that will be raised at seminars, workshops, conferences and exhibitions.

  • Svenska Fönster brought a piece of forest from the county Hälsingland to Nordbygg 2018

    Nordbygg for real business value

    Nordbygg is a central market activity for many Nordic companies within the construction and housing industry. The in every way successful fair of 2018 has made many companies make early decisions to return when Nordbygg is back in a little over a year. Two of them are the tech-group Bemsiq and Svenska Fönster, one of Sweden´s leading window manufacturers.

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