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  • DreamHack returns to Stockholm and Stockholmsmässan in 2025.

    DreamHack stays in Stockholm — aims to become Sweden's largest festival

    After last year's success which attracted over 52,000 visitors from 59 different countries, interest was high from Europe's major cities. But now it's confirmed that DreamHack will return to Stockholm in November. “We aim to be bigger than the music festivals,” says Kalle Pilfalk, Director DreamHack Festivals at ESL FACEIT Group (EFG).

  • “Disrupt more, waste less, and act better” – Stockholm Furniture Fair Talks 2025

    “Disrupt more, waste less, and act better” – Stockholm Furniture Fair Talks 2025

    Stockholm Furniture Fair Talks 2025 brings together some of the leading voices in the design and architecture industry. Curated in collaboration with Dezeen and Designo Journal, the programme features prominent names such as Faye Toodgood, Ineke Hans, Ini Archibong as well as Snøhetta, Schemata Architects and Clap Studio.

  • Photographer Genevieve Lutkin

    Guest of Honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 – Faye Toogood

    From fashion to furniture, textiles to sculpture, few designers switch quite so confidently between disciplines as British artist Faye Toogood. As Guest of Honour at Stockholm Furniture 2025, Toogood will create a captivating installation in the entrance hall. Her ability to work across disciplines ensures that her contribution will set the tone for the 2025 fair.

  • Valdís Steinarsdóttir

    Formex Nova winner Valdís Steinarsdóttir: "I want to take advantage of the fact that we designers have such a great influence in society"

    In fierce competition with top designers from all over the Nordic region, Formex Nova 2020 is awarded to the Icelandic designer Valdís Steinarsdóttir, 29, who in her work focuses on recycling natural materials. Together with researchers she has, among other things, developed two completely new materials, Bioplastic Skin and Just Bones.
    In its motivation, the Formex Nova jury highlights in parti

  • Photo: Gustav Kaiser

    Stockholm Design Week attracts visitors from all over the world

    Architects, designers and journalists from all over the world will be coming to Stockholm to attend Stockholm Design Week and Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, February 3-9. With the fair being the hub Stockholm will be buzzing with almost 200 design events, exhibitions and parties.

  • Ten things you absolutely won’t want to miss at Formex, January 17-20

    Ten things you absolutely won’t want to miss at Formex, January 17-20

    Formex, which will be held January 17-20, is the kick-off for the spring season in the interior design industry. Visitors can listen to many interesting speakers, such as one of the world’s leading trend forecasters, Li Edelkoort, and lifestyle trend expert and researcher Mads Arlien-Søborg. This year’s Formex Formidable design award will be presented at Wednesday’s press breakfast.

  • Step into Elsa Beskow’s fabulous world at Formex

    Step into Elsa Beskow’s fabulous world at Formex

    For the 100th anniversary of Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender, Bonnier Brands is creating the wonderful fairy tale world imagined by the mother of Swedish children’s books, Elsa Beskow. The exhibition is a collaboration with internationally renowned JoAnn Tan Studio.

  • Synnöve Mork, Cilla Ramnek, Saša Antić & Tina Hellberg

    Be inspired by the artists behind Formex’s Layout exhibition

    The Formex interior design fair, which will be held January 17-20, 2018, has given designer and exhibition architect Synnöve Mork the assignment to design an exhibition in Stockholmsmässan’s entrance hall that inspires and educates. The exhibition will be a collaboration between several artists, each of whom will present their own interpretation.

  • New generation of designers in Young Designers at Formex

    New generation of designers in Young Designers at Formex

    ​Many of today's established designers made their breakthrough exhibiting at Young Designers, Formex's platform for young, up-and-coming designers. Participants in the spring edition, January 14-17, 2015, will include Eduards Accessories, MÚK and Maria Sandberg Textiles for the first time.

  • Shifting borders at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

    Shifting borders at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

    Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, February 3–7, 2015, has invited four interior designers to the Trend Exhibition 2015/16 to design spaces that could be found both in the home and in public places: a hotel lobby, lunch room, home office and bedroom.

  • A world of its own at Greenhouse – in the mind of a designer

    A world of its own at Greenhouse – in the mind of a designer

    In 2015 Note Design Studio will design Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair's hall for promising young designers. A visit to Greenhouse should be like stepping into a designer’s mind – a space for reflection and projection of dreams. For the next Fair, which will take place from February 3-7, 2015, Greenhouse also has a new jury.

  • Soon time for the design event of the year

    Soon time for the design event of the year

    Soon we will be in the 6th week of the year, a week that has become synonymous with Stockholm Design Week. Many of the world's best in furniture and lighting will be in Stockholm to check out the latest in Scandinavian design at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. With the trade fair at the middle of it all, the entire city buzzes with around 60 events, installations and parties. Stockholm Furn