Of all the new features at this fall’s Formex, the newly established Formex Sustainability Award is one of the biggest. The award is part of Formex’s efforts to be the natural platform for knowledge, good design and sustainable development in the interior design industry. Exhibiting companies will be nominating products during the upcoming Formex, and the winner will be announced at Formex in Janu
At Formex, designer Svea Barone has been named “Best in Show” in Design Talents. This is a competition for up-and-coming Swedish and international designers to showcase their products at Formex. This year, 26 talented new designers are exhibiting their work on 22 stands in the Design Talents section of the fair.
Winner Svea Barone works primarily with flowers, and at Formex she will be showing
Stockholm Design Week is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a week highlighting Scandinavian design on September 5–11. The program includes open showrooms and studios, inspiring exhibitions, launches and talks. Stockholm Design Week is open to the public, but also offers a long awaited opportunity for the industry to come together. The official partner for Stockholm Design Week is LG Electronic
The customer loyalty among exhibitors is strong and the quality of the visitors is high – almost eight out of ten have purchasing power, the now completed Nordbygg visitor and exhibitor survey shows.
–We see an ever growing interest in solar technology and other innovations that contribute to a lower climate impact. We will bring this with us into Nordbygg 2024, says Lina Hann, Nordbygg Project
Finally, we could see each other at Nordbygg again! After two years of pandemic and a postponed fair, Nordbygg 2022 was a long wait for the public construction sector. This year’s edition has had many positive reviews and many lyrical faces have been seen in the exhibition halls.
Recoma byggskivor (Recoma building panels) won the Nordbygg Gold Medal, the award for this year’s most innovative product for 2022. The panes are completely made up of recycled composite packaging, where only heat and pressure is used in the production process which contributes to a low carbon footprint.
The official Stockholm Design Week is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a wide range of design events all over Stockholm city on September 5–11. The week is aimed at professionals in the design industry and members of the public with an interest in design.
Events, exhibitions, talks, open design studios and showrooms will turn the spotlight on the dynamic Scandinavian design scene, with new
We warmly welcome you to the Nordbygg press conference for a presentation of the highlights and themes for the week.
The four-year wait is over - on April 26th we again open the doors to the long-awaited Nordbygg and this year’s most important construction meeting. The entire public construction sector has longed to be able to see industry colleagues again and take part of the news and innovations. Soon it will be reality!
Just a month to go until Nordbygg welcomes the whole industry to this year’s most important construction meeting. The last preparations for the fair are underway and the stage programmes are nearly set. All that is missing are the visitors and the exhibitors.
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair has decided to cancel the postponed fair in September. The new dates are February 7–11. “We want to unite the design industry and focus on a strong comeback after two years of absence”, says Hanna Nova Beatrice, Project Area Manager, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week.
In February the world's eyes are on Stockholm and Scandinavia'
The restrictions have been lifted and noone is happier than we - finally we can meet at the most important construction meeting of the year. Nordbygg invites you to several stages with jam-packed programmes and something for every visitor, but there will be extra focus on tech and the industry’s future development.
The exhibition "Talking to Åke" is currently on at the Sven-Harry Art Museum (Sven-Harrys konstmuseum). The exhibition, curated by Stockholm Design Week's Hanna Nova Beatrice, is a part of design history with the Swedish design icon Åke Axelsson meeting several contemporary Swedish designers.
We can finally start counting down to a new instalment of Nordbygg 2022 this Spring. You can already secure your ticket to the fair, since visitor registration opened up a few days ago. Inspiration, new products, interesting seminars and rewarding meetings are just some of the things that Nordbygg will offer on April 26-29.
In June 2022, Sweden will host Stockholm+50—the global UN environmental meeting. This commemorates the very first UN environmental conference in 1972 in Stockholm, exactly 50 years ago. Stockholm+50 will be held at Stockholmsmässan on June 2–3.
Two concrete outcomes of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 were the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the designation
In consultation with industry organisation PUFF (Presentgrossisternas Företagarförening), the decision to cancel Formex was taken yesterday. This is a result of a new wave of Covid, reinforced by the rapid expansion of the Omicron variant in Sweden as well many other countries. The next Formex will be held on August 23-26, 2022.
Formex is the most important Nordic fair for the interiors and de
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair will be postponed until September 6-9, 2022, while Stockholm Design week is scheduled to run as normal in February 7-13, 2022.
Soltech Energy want more people to wake up to energy and photovoltaic solutions and will therefore be exhibiting again at Nordbygg 2022. Tor Borg takes part in the latest Nordbygg Talks: together with Karin Kjellson, architect and part-owner of Theory in Practice, where they among other things discuss trends in Swedish construction.
On behalf of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2022, Marge Architects, in collaboration with Experience Curator Jenny Asp, has created the completely circular inspiration exhibition “Around the Corner” that generates faith in the future by highlighting innovations from different industries. Among those presented is a new collaboration between Norwegian Vestre and Danish BIG Architects, and HYBR
Stockholm Design & Architecture Talks, the seminar program of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, have divided their seminar into one digital and one physical part. With “BEing a Game Changer” as the overall theme, the seminar focus on the most important issues facing the industry right now.
