2010-02-09 @ 19:13:41

Stockholm Design Week 1

This week is Stockholm Design Week, with lots of press shows and parties all over town, and the Furniture Fair in Älvsjö as well. I started it all off yesterday by going to four press shows/parties! I'm planning on going to the fair tomorrow afternoon, and then on Thursday there are some more parties to attend, so expect more reports here during the week.

The first press show was called Check In, showing the work of ten up and coming Swedish designers. The ones I thought were most interesting was Alex Gunnarsson with her "wooden fabric" (which for some reason won't upload right now, but I'll try again later), Asshoff & Brog ård's drop shaped hooks and haute couture inspired upholstered stools, Johan Lindstén's embroidered chairs and Studio Yra's plywood letter candlesticks.

After that I went to Elle Interiör's Design of the Year Awards, where we got the best goodie bag ever! It was sponsored by Design House Stockholm, so all the goodies were packed in their shopping basket, and inside it was a tealight holder from Orrefors, the latest issue of Elle Interiör, a beautiful note book from Mateus, a package of very tasty knäckebröd plus a smoothie and a candy bar.

I also visited Monica Förster's exhibition of enormous (like 6 meters high) paper lights at Berns, and architectural magazine Rum's party at Sturecompagniet. I have to say though that the goodie bag we got from Rum was very strange... Just a pile of bathroom catalogues. I was like: What?! Why would I want a pile of catalogues, that I can get for free from any bathroom store? I'm not greedy, if they had just thrown us an issue of the magazine I would have been totally content, and if they had added a piece of chocolate I would have been really happy. But no. I got bathroom catalogues...

Permalink General Kommentarer (9) Trackbacks ()

Comments

Posted by: RKD

Dear Lord in Heaven, I want that leather chair SO SO SO SO SO BAD.

I don't think I've ever seen a more magnificent chair than that!!!!

2010-02-10 @ 00:41:42

Posted by: emma ::emmas designblogg::

Umm, there is no leather chair in these pics. :)
If you mean the black stools, they are covered in some kind of stretchy fabric, like swimwear fabric. The white chairs with the embroidered backs are wood, with fabric upholstered back rests.

2010-02-10 @ 01:01:12

URL: http://emmas.blogg.se/

Posted by: IngenFara

Gillar bokstäverna mycket och älskar förstås dropparna samt skrattar åt Rum´s goodie bag, var de kanske ironiska...

2010-02-10 @ 10:52:24

URL: http://ingenfarapataket.blogspot.com

Posted by: susanne

underbara bokstäver...
/Susanne

2010-02-10 @ 13:49:34

URL: http://meandalice.blogspot.com

Posted by: Rikke bach

Hey! Wauw love the letteres within candles. Where can I buy them?

2010-02-10 @ 16:46:05

Posted by: STEFANIE

Great post, love it =)

2010-02-10 @ 18:30:39

URL: http://yespleasemademoiselle.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Elisabeth - anyhow.se

Jamen du - SÅ ska ju bokstäverna utveckla sig förståss, självklart liksom! :)
Snyggt!

2010-02-10 @ 23:06:21

URL: http://levaleende.blogg.se/

Posted by: ae

Tavel-stolarna är fantastiska!

2010-02-12 @ 01:08:16

URL: http://annaelvira.wordpress.com/

Posted by: Ewelina

I love the 2 black stools. I'm preparing a blog post about various artistic forms of stools and will definitely include those. Will you come to Copenhagen in August 2010 to cover www.code10.dk?

2010-02-20 @ 22:23:13

URL: www.ereszke.wordpress.com

Trackback

About Me

Guide to Stockholm

Stockholm Design Week 1

Categories

Archivist