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.
A landscape of dressed-up animal forms, ice and stone. The “Beyond Couture” bar and exhibit at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2012 offers visitors a textile fantasy landscape that erases all boundaries.
In 2012, furniture and lighting designers of tomorrow will meet fashion designers of the future for the first time in Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair’s hall for independent designers and design schools.
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.
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.
This fall’s Formex was bigger than ever before, with record numbers of visitors: 25,959 visitors in all, which is 218 more than the previous record from fall 2009.
Hanna Hedman and Simon Klenell The Jury’s explanatory statement: ”We should perhaps point out that we decided to award the prizes to two young designers who, completely in keeping with the spirit of the times, combine skilful handicraft with a personal design language ….
Formex, September 1-4, will see the Swedish premiere of “17 Swedish designers – chez Pascale), an exhibition featuring the female design elite of Sweden, including Monica Förster and Lena Bergström. The exhibition is part of Formex’s investment in Nordic design.
Young DesignersKarolina Konst, www.kpalmer.seSimon Key Bertman, www.bertman.nuNiklas Bonnevier Design, www.niklasbonnevier.seForma Nova, www.formanova.seYukari & Johan, www.naturalstation.seStudio Sofie Englund www.sofieenglund.seLina Bergström www.linabergstrom.paspartout.comKarin Elvy – Karin Eriksson www.karinelvy.seLagström Wiktorsson www.lagstromwiktorsson.seBrusewitz Design, www.brusewit
Simon Key Bertman has been commissioned to design this fall’s Young Design Café at Formex. For the sixth successive time, a young Swedish designer will be responsible for creating Young Design Café, which also includes the Young Designers zone and a stage area.
This autumn's Formex will include several new features focusing on Nordic design: the event will have a new “Nordic Area” product zone, a new annual exhibition by Nordic designers and a newly-established award “Årets kvinnliga designer” (Female designer of the year).
This autumn’s trend theme at Formex exudes austere and modern retro, mixed with an aesthetic that radiates a congenial, timeless and relaxed elegance - Cosy Minimalism. Warmth, harmony and balance are the catchwords for the season.
Formex is continuing its positive progress. The spring exhibition saw more exhibitors than ever before, 833 compared with 781 the previous spring. Formex also beat the visitor record, with a total of 26,729, which is an increase of 5 % compared with record figures from the previous spring. Interest from abroad continues to grow; the number of foreign visitors increased by 18 %.
On February 8th, 2011 at 3pm, ung8 – young swedish design is launched at the Greenhouse section of Stockholm’s Furniture Fair. The two awards sponsored by the Auctionhouse Lauritz.com will be presented. Thereafter the exhibition will tour Sweden and internationally, stopping in Stockholm, London, Malmö, Athens, Gothenberg, Sundsvall, Cyprus and then onto other unknown destinations.
Arik Levy, this year’s Guest of Honor, has been called both a scientist and a poet. He will be creating a relaxing lounge that encourages human contact in the Stockholmsmässan entrance hall. This is the eighth time that Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair have invited a well-known international designer to create a lounge space.
This is the fifth time in a row that a young Swedish designer has been invited to design the Young Design Lounge at Formex. This spring the task has fallen to Karin Robling. Karin is creating a backdrop entitled "The glorious life of the Maharajah".
The 20th to 23rd January sees the sixth Young Designers exhibition, the Formex platform for unestablished young designers.
At this spring's Formex, January 20-23, 2011, WIS Design is inviting visitors to enter a cozy living room from the 1960s. At Formex there will also be an exhibition of handicrafts from Skansen, which has provided the inspiration for newly-manufactured products – the Skansen Collection – created by Ekelund Linneväveri in Horred.
Young rising star Jens Fager is responsible for designing Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture Fair’s hall for independent designers and design schools, once again this year. The fair will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2011! To mark the occasion, there will be an anniversary exhibition in the entrance hall.