Under snow cover at Formex
At Formex, 19-22 January 2012, visitors will be transported to a magical snow-covered world. Formex’s combined inspirational exhibition and restaurant has been designed by Note Design Studio this time.
At Formex, 19-22 January 2012, visitors will be transported to a magical snow-covered world. Formex’s combined inspirational exhibition and restaurant has been designed by Note Design Studio this time.
Stockholmsmässan and TMF (Trä- och Möbelföretagen) have formed an ethical council, No Copy, for the forthcoming Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair on 7-11 February 2012. The Council aims to help ensure a high ethical standard among exhibitors and to counteract the occurrence of unauthorised copies of familiar or distinctive products.
Between 19 and 22 January 2012, it will be time for the eighth Young Designers event, Formex's platform for unestablished designers. It will also be the fourth time that Next Step has been organised, the next step to an ordinary stand at Formex.
Designer Monica Förster has been commissioned to design an installation for Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 7-11 February 2012, for the project Hello! – Anatomy of Organizations. The theme this time around is the organization and how it shapes – and will shape – future workplaces.
This spring’s Young Designers Café at Formex will be a creative meeting place for shades of blue, designed by Cecilia Dreyfert. This is the eighth successive time a young Swedish designer will be responsible for creating Young Designers Café, which also incorporates the Young Designers, Next Step zone and a stage area.
A modern flower room, graphic silhouettes with a fifties and sixties mood; Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 7-11 February 2012, will be showcasing the latest trends in home furnishing and lighting in the inspirational exhibition “My Home is My Castle”.
The Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 7-11 February 2012, will for the second year in a row play host to the combined exhibition and talk show Hello! This project has been initiated in order to promote discussion and provide inspiration regarding the modern workplace.
At Formex, which runs from 19 to 22 January 2012, a children's game provides the inspiration for the design of this spring's major trend theme exhibition entitled IN THE MOOD. The visitor is invited to enter a modern architectural barn, where the focus is on light, space, feelings and sensuality.
This year's Mitt kök culinary exhibition broke several records; it was larger than ever before, with more competitions, and more exhibitors, journalists, visitors and personalities from the food and beverage world. A total of 36,880 'foodies' visited the exhibition.
For the eighth year in a row, a Swedish designer or group will be creating the Design Bar at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. This time the commission goes to designer Lina Nordqvist. The focus will be meetings and the basic forms of circles and squares.
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.
Several of Sweden’s foremost chefs will open a restaurant together under Stockholmsmässan’s roof at the ‘Mitt kök’ culinary event on November 10-13. Over four days, visitors will have the chance to see a unique collaboration and sample seven specially-created dishes at Kockarnas Krog (Chefs’ restaurant).
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.
Formex has established a new design award – Nova. The award will be handed out every fall, starting at the 2011 fall exhibition. The winner will be chosen by an expert jury and the award will go to a designer active in the Nordic region.