Topics: Events

  • Press invitation

    Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 5–9 February 2013, Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö, Sweden Welcome to Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair Inauguration and press briefing – Tuesday 5 February, 09:15–10:00 in Conference Room K1

  • This spring’s Formex defies the recession

    Formex continues to cement its position as the leading event in Nordic interior design. The spring fair attracted 864 exhibitors, 887 media representatives and 23,903 visitors from 48 countries. The Formex team had picked the theme “Fresh” to inspire and spread happiness after a period of darkness, and this was very well received by exhibitors and visitors alike.

  • Glass Elephant – fragile glass and heavy industrial robots in a poetic installation

    An elephant in a china shop? No – just heavy industrial robots in a landscape of glass. As part of Stockholm Design Week 4-10 February 2013, Glass Elephant, a design installation in the borderland between industrial design, craftsmanship and performance, is on show in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities’ Skeppsholmen Caverns.

  • Winner of Nova Design Award coming to Formex and Gallery Pascale

    Winner of the Nova Design Award 2012, Mari Isopahkala, will be appearing in person and exhibiting her products at Formex next week. An exhibition of her work will run concurrently at Gallery Pascale – a chance for the general public to admire her designs. Participation at Formex and the exhibition at Gallery Pascale is part of the Nova Design Award, which is presented at the fall Formex each year.

  • Snow-capped mountains set the mood in Nendo’s installation at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

    For the tenth year running, a celebrated international designer is creating a lounge at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.This year Mr. Oki Sato, Chief Designer and founder of Nendo, has produced an installation that creates the illusion of snow-capped mountain peaks soaring into the sky.This is an instance of the method being as central to the creative process as the visual effect.

  • Sunny design lounge, lectures, and store coaching at Formex

    This season, the task of creating Formex’s design lounge in the Entrance Hall has fallen to interior design stylist and writer Tina Hellberg. The lounge, with its title, "Oh Sunny Day", which reminds you of the spring sun, offers both a nice way to relax and an exciting selection of innovations from the fair's exhibitors.

  • Formex invites you to the greens of summer in January

    Oddcolony is the titillating name of this season's Formex’s combined restaurant, stage, and inspirational exhibition in Hall B. The Oddbirds are the super designers responsible for the design of the dazzling Oddcolony area that will be on site complete with a greenhouse, garden beds, and budding tulip bulbs when Formex kicks off the design year in the middle of January.

  • Four Fresh Spring Trends in Formex's new TrendZone

    Trend Zone is the name of Formex's new acclaimed segment for trend inspiration. After its success last year, the area is being further expanded. In addition to an extensive trend exhibition focusing on four of the most important trends of the season, Trend Zone now also has a stage where you can have a seat and listen to inspiring trend lectures.

  • The participants in Greenhouse and YOUNG Swedish Design 2013 have now been selected!

    Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2013 will feature yet another chance for young designers to exhibit their work to producers and visitors from the furniture and lighting industry, the press, and the general public in the Greenhouse exhibition. The exhibitors taking part in Greenhouse 2013 have now been selected.

  • No Copy Ethical Council returns to Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

    The newly formed No Copy Ethical Council is a collaboration between Stockholmsmässan and TMF [the Swedish Federation of Wood and Furniture Industry] and was introduced at the 2012 Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. The Council was a huge success and there will be a second chance in 2013 to receive impartial advice on intellectual property issues while the fair is in progress.

  • Young Designers celebrate ten appearances at Formex

    On 17-20 January, it will be time for Young Designers at Formex. This will be the tenth occasion the zone for promising new designers is featured. Over the years, quite a few exhibitors at Young Designers have achieved success and public acclaim for their design work.

  • Record-breaking interest in Nordbygg 2014 - 60 percent of the space is already booked

    The Nordbygg exhibition is attracting more interest than ever before. Although there’s 18 months to go before the next exhibition in April 2014, 60 percent of the exhibition space is already booked. “This is quite unique in the events world and it illustrates the importance of strong industry meeting places in difficult economic times,” says Peter Söderberg, Event manager at Nordbygg.

  • Future color and material trends on show at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

    Future trends with their origins in Swedish design tradition will be featured in an exhibition courtesy of Materialbiblioteket at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair on 5-9 February. The exhibition is aimed at professional architects, designers and marketers, and has been produced in association with Oversight Trends.

  • Morten Rygaard til Fotomessen!

    Morten Rygaard har fotograferet Beyoncé og Bono. Nu kommer han til Fotomessen for at dele sine bedste fototricks med os. "Det er utroligt nemt at være kreativ med den teknik, der findes i dag," siger den danske stjernefotograf.

  • Gert Wingårdh and Kustaa Saksi interpret communication

    This will be the third year in a row that Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair stages its combined exhibition and talk show Hello!, an initiative by the fair to start a conversation about contemporary and future workplaces. This year’s theme is ‘Communication’ and the task of interpreting the main thematic design will be shared by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi.

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