Overseas interest in Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which ended at the weekend, continues to grow. This year, one in four trade visitors was from overseas and the number of foreign visitors was up 13 % compared with 2011. The exhibition received a total of 38,814 visitors, which is 392 more than last year.
On 7-11 February it will be time for the 61st Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, the world's largest and most important meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design. Some 740 exhibitors from 31 countries will gather at Stockholmsmässan to display the latest products within furniture, lighting and textiles for both the home and public environments.
The Hello Show gives invited guests from widely differing backgrounds and industries the opportunity to debate the notion of the organization and the office as a phenomenon. The talk show is one aspect of the Hello! project, which has been initiated by Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair to promote discussion and provide inspiration regarding the modern workplace.
In Greenhouse, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair's hall for independent designers and design schools, visitors will encounter fashion and design as part of a Fusion Walk, which serves as both an installation and a catwalk for fashion shows.
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 7–11 February 2012, Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö Welcome to the 61st Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair!
This year’s Guest of Honour, French industrial and product designer Inga Sempé, welcomes visitors to an intimate and cosy environment in Stockholmsmässan’s entrance hall. This is the ninth consecutive year that a prominent international designer will be responsible for creating a lounge at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
