At Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, 4 - 8 February 2014, the Design Bar is being transformed into a top-class restaurant, thanks to the combined talents of designer Jens Fager and chef Tommy Myllymäki, Sweden’s representative at the prestigious culinary competition Bocuse d’Or Europe 2014.
Den 25. oktober slår Europas største fotomesse igen dørene op i Forum i København. Fotoudstillinger i verdensklasse, spændende nyheder fra de førende producenter og forhandlere samt seminarer, der hjælper de besøgende med at tage bedre billeder.
Be well prepared, think in terms of overall impression, never leave your stand unattended and let people see the real you: these are tips for first–time exhibitors courtesy of Swedish design studio Oyyo and Norwegian design duo Morten and Jonas, whose breakthrough came at Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair’s hall for up-and-coming designers. Next year’s event: February 4-8, 2014.
For the eleventh year running, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is inviting a highly acclaimed international designer or design studio to create a lounge in Stockholmsmässan’s entrance hall. This time the task has fallen to Danish-Italian GamFratesi, a design studio enjoying a meteoric career and now in demand all over the world.
For the first time, the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) has chosen to hold its 51st annual congress "The International Liver Congress" in Stockholm, Sweden, at the exhibition and congress center, Stockholmsmässan, in spring 2017. It has also decided that the congress will return in 2021. The congress is expected to attract around 10,000 participants to each occasion.
Digital Health Days was kicked off at Stockholmsmässan in the presence of HRH Prince Daniel. Over 400 delegates and 50 journalists had registered for the conference, a clear sign of how much people are interested in developing the interface between IT on the one hand, and healthcare and life sciences research on the other.
Formex, the largest meeting place for Nordic interior design, came to a successful conclusion last weekend.The fair attracted a total of 20,703 visitors from 9,413 companies.11% of these companies came from countries other than Sweden, which is a larger percentage than ever before.
The winner of the 2013 Nova Designer Award is Mattias Stenberg from Studio Vision.The Jury’s motivation for picking him was for “a style brimming with confidence”.The Nova Design Award has been instituted by Formex, one of Stockholmsmässan’s flagship events and the leading trade fair for Nordic interior design.
In the Entrance Hall at Formex, household furnishings chain Habitat has put together a lounge created by interior designer and stylist Per Wennberg. The lounge is a place for visitors to take timeout away from all the impressions. It’s a place to reflect and chat.
Many of today's established designers have had their breakthrough after exhibiting at Young Designers, Formex's platform for young, up-and-coming designers. In addition to Young Designers, Formex also has Next Step, which is for exhibitors that have come a little further along in their establishment phase. Young Designers is being organized for the eleventh time and Next Step for the seventh time.
The nominations are complete for Formex's Nova Design Award, which will be awarded for the third year in a row on August 15th. The award will go to a young designer working in the Nordic Region and is selected by an expert jury.
Eclecticism, Formalism, Maximalism and Materialism, at Trend Zone, Formex's section for trend inspiration, four of the season's most important trends are presented in an exhibition that is put together by the Swedish Fashion Council (Svenska Moderådet).
It's time to apply to Greenhouse at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2014. Greenhouse is the section where up-and-coming designers and design schools show off their prototypes to future partners, producers and customers. Several of the leading designers and design groups of our time have had their breakthrough thanks to their participation in Greenhouse.
The Formex interior design and gifts fair on 15-18 August is a chance for visitors to experience a blend of food, meetings and inspiration in the buffet zone and the exhibition Eat Meet Enjoy, inspired by this fall’s trend theme Eclectic Touch.
It’s time again: Stockholmsmässan’s main entrance will be turning back into a busy building site for the next few months. This is the final phase of building work and on 14 August – just one day before the first exhibition of the fall opens – the gleaming new entrance area will be finished.
Mix and match: matte and shiny, vivid and neutral, conventional and original. The trend theme at the Formex interiors and design fair on 15-18 August 2013 is Eclectic Touch – affirmative and indulgent, with an intuitive feel.
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes, EASD, has chosen Stockholm as the site of its major conference in the autumn of 2015. The city will thus be hosting the event for the fourth time. The decision was motivated by Stockholm's good conditions and Stockholmsmässan's long experience in arranging international conferences.
The 62nd Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair – the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design – took place on 5-9 February. 729 exhibitors from 31 countries came together under Stockholmsmässan’s roof to showcase innovations in furniture, lighting and textiles for homes and public spaces.
The recently held Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair continues to strengthen its position as the world’s leading meeting place within Scandinavian design. Many exhibitors are starting to notice signs of an economic recovery and the percentage of visitors and journalists from other countries continued to increase.
The final edition of Hello! gets under way on 5 February at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. Running for a three-year period and initiated by the Fair, the project has chosen communication as its theme this year. Architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi have joined creative forces to design the installation.
