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  • Research, high tech, and embroidery – Front's installation at the Stockholm Furniture Fair showcases the studio's great creative breadth

    In 2004, Front exhibited in Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture Fair's area for emerging designers. Now – 19 years later, their design is produced by industry-leading design companies such as Moroso, Moooi, Vitra and Kvadrat, as well as prestigious international galleries like Friedman Benda Gallery and Galerie Kreo. They are represented in the permanent collections of museums such as MoMA, V&A, M

  • Stockholm Design Week - highlights not to be missed

    With more than 100 furniture brands, design studios, shops and museums ready to open their doors on February 6, Stockholm Design Week will be a buzzing event that engage the whole city. Organised by Stockholm Furniture fair, the week attracts a wide range of participants, from design and interior brands to restaurants, galleries, museums and department stores.

  • Älvsjö gård – Stockholm Furniture Fair’s new platform for experimental, research driven and collectible design

    Älvsjö gård is a new platform for experimental, research driven and collectible design, set in one of the oldest still existing manors in Stockholm. With its close proximity to the fair ground of Stockholm Furniture Fair it has a unique position to showcase limited and small scale design to a wide audience. Stockholm Furniture Fair have invited design galleries, makers, independent artist and desi

  • Bark Sweden Wins Formex Design Talents

    Today, Frida and Richard Lilliestråle, founders and owners of Bark Sweden, were awarded the “Best in Show” Design Talents award at Formex. Bark Sweden creates one-of-a-kind cell phone cases from recycled Swedish timber at a factory in Spånga.

  • Scented Candle Refill Wins Formex Sustainability Award

    The first recipient of the new Formex Sustainability Award has been announced. Remoair won the award for its innovative and resource-efficient scented candle refill. Many interesting entries were submitted last fall for the first ever Formex Sustainability Award.

  • How do we build and design for a better tomorrow?

    Stockholm Furniture Fair Talks offers a dedicated program with keynote speakers and inspiring design and architecture talks throughout the week. Amongst the speakers on the main stage, you will find designers such as Sabine Marcelis, Stephen Burks and Raw Edges as well as architects such as Anders Lendager and Victoria Millestrup from BIG.
    ”Equality and diversity are the biggest challenges faci

  • Underbar by Jonas Bohlin and Christine Ingridsdotter

    For Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023, Swedish designer and interior architect Jonas Bohlin has designed the bar Underbar (Wonderful in Swedish) in close collaboration with Christine Ingridsdotter. The bar is made from carefully selected components, and all material will be reused once the fair is over — all the resources being used for Underbar do have a purpose. The bar will be a meeting place creat

  • Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023 celebrates Swedish design and Scandinavian core values

    When Stockholm Furniture Fair opens its doors in February, the focus is all Scandinavian. With a Guest of Honor installation by the Swedish design studio Front and the bar Underbar by the Swedish interior architect Jonas Bohlin, Swedish design is put at the forefront for the first time in the fair's history.
    Front is the first Swedish design studio to receive the recognition and they will show

  • Scandinavian Design Awards nominees 2023

    We are happy to introduce the nominees for the newly established Scandinavian Design Awards, selected by jury members from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The award aims to recognize and pay tribute to both established players and newcomers within architecture, interiors and design in Scandinavia. The winners will be announced on February 6 in Blå Hallen in Stockholm City Hall and all the nom

  • Scandinavian Design Awards – celebrating the best design and architecture in Scandinavia

    The Scandinavian Design Awards will be launched in 2023. This new initiative aims to recognise and pay tribute to both established players and newcomers within architecture, interiors and design, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The awards are a partnership between the publishing company It Is Media and Stockholm Furniture Fair, with the winners being announced during Stockholm Design Week

  • 20 Emerging Designers Selected for Design Talents at Formex in January

    20 promising young designers have been accepted for Design Talents and will all be displaying their products at the fair. Design Talents is one of the most exciting zones at Formex, where up-and-coming designers get the chance to enter their products to be selected and put on display. At the press breakfast on January 17, one of the selected design talents will be announced as the winner of “Best

  • Nine Entries Shortlisted for Formex Sustainability Award

    The newly established Formex Sustainability Award has attracted a great deal of interest in the industry. During the fall, exhibiting companies have been able to enter their products, and the Formex jury has now shortlisted nine of the entries—ranging from organic seeds to cell phone shells and scented candle refills. All the entries will be on display at Formex in January 2023, where the winner w

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