EMMAS DESIGNBLOGG

Design and style from a Scandinavian perspective

Massproductions

Massproductions is a Swedish furnture company based on a long term collaboration between designers Magnus Elebäck and Chris Martin. They launched their debut collection Tio at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this year. And although I am still feeling thoroughly uninspired, I just couldn't let this stay off the blog. The pictures below are from their stand on the fair. Pretty creative wouldn't you say?





New products from Hommin

Do you remember the bird light, and the bird bookmark, that was all over the blogosphere last year? They were designed by Hommin, and at this years furniture fair Hommin presented these two new great products: The Starlight lamp and the Necklace & Clothes hanging system. Read more about the news at Hommin's website.




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I'm back! And Assemblage by Jean Pelle

I'm feeling better again, so lets start off this wintery week with a litle DIY project. A super stylish ceiling light or chandelier, made of glass bulbs and clear light bulbs. I haven't quite figured out how to make the braided cord cover, but I think it would look pretty good without that too, don't you?

The project was made by Jean Pelle and was published in ReadyMade Magazine. Click here for instructions.



In July 2008, Jean Pelle started her own product and furniture line to pursue hands-on, process-oriented design work. She began this project with a small collection of hand-turned wood candleholders. Currently, she is producing furniture pieces for the ASSEMBLAGE Series.
Ms.Pelle has previously worked as an architectural designer for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York City, Eric Owen Moss Architects in Los Angeles and EHDD Architecture in San Francisco.
She received her undergraduate degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley and her Master of Architecture from Yale University.

Below are some examples from her Assemblage collection that is available from her Etsy store.





Knits by the metre

"With a thread you can clothe the world. An unbroken thread can create cavities, structures, and patterns in the infinite."

Knits by the metre´s first collection Brave New World is made up of knitted textiles in materials such as linen, monofilament and metal. Many of them combine expression, structure and effects not seen before. Knits by the metre is a Swedish company started in 2006 by designers Ulrika Mårtensson and Margot Barolo. They have  previously worked together on several projects involving product development and design as well as art projects.

Ulrika Mårtensson is a renowned, award-winning textile designer, artist and architect, with a large number of assignments, including from the Swedish Governmental Art Council, Kinnasand and Marks Pelle. She has an MFA from Konstfack, the University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Margot Barolo is a well known and award-winning product designer and artist, working with both textile, furniture and home products for companies such as Svenskt Tenn, Iittala, Iris Hantverk and Bamford. She also works as a design strategist. She is educated at Beckmans School of Design.

I want these:





Designer Amy Hunting

Norwegian designer Amy Hunting used wood waste and off-cuts collected from factories in Denmark, to make the Patchwork collection entirely out of the factory waste collected, with no screws, bolts or anything else. The pieces were put together to form a wood patchwork before they were made into; a chair, a book box and a series of 12 lamps.






Structures/Facades by Tina Roeder

When you see as much design and interior decoration news as I do (I browse the internet several hours every day, and read lots of magazines) it is very rarely that you find something that actually feels fresh and innovative. This credenza by designer Tina Roeder definitely does just that.

The Structures/Facades was inspired by the architectural history of East-West Berlin, "rich in visions and utopias". The materials used were grey cardboard and chrome-plated steel.

Having studied at both Saint Martins College in London and Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Tina has lots of other interesting projects that you can check out on her site, so please do!






Designer Ditte Hammerstrøm

One of my favorite designers is Danish Ditte Hammerstrøm. Always innovative and refreshing, even a bit quirky but without crossing the boundary to the strange and overly arty. And the results are always very beautiful. I'm in love with her sofas, and the wonderfully cosy glowing blanket that doubles as a reading light.







Limited edition art print by Petra Börner

Also in the mail today, this gorgeous limited edition art print by Swedish illustrator and designer Petra Börner, available at Bodie and Fou.



Familjen, a fabric collection by Hanna Säfström

Hanna Säfström, a Swedish decorative painter and colour consultant, has had a dream of creating her own patterns and textiles for a long time, and now it's become reality! The patterns are named after her family members, chosen to correspond with each of their unique personalities. I especially like these two leaf patterns, called Bengt and Clara.
You can view the whole collection and buy the fabrics by the metre and as cushion covers, bed linen and trays at Hanna's site.



Photos by Stellan Herner

Tin Lamp by Yar Rassadin

Loving these lamps by Russian designer Yar Rassadin! He is also the man behind the super cute but a little evil looking matryoschka dolls in Pantone hues that I've seen around the blogging community lately. Actually, I think Yar himself is pretty cute too... ;-)





Maija Louekari

Maija Louekari is the one who makes all of Marimekko's best patterns, but what might not be common knowledge is the fact that she is also a product designer and an artist! Take a look below to see my favourites.

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Products from ontwerpduo

Designers of ontwerpduo are Nathan Wierink and Tineke Beunders. Nathan is graduating at this time, at The Design Academy Eindhoven. Tineke is graduated Cum Laude at the Design Academy Eindhoven in January 2008 with the projects 'Marbelous' and 'When I was little'.
'We didn't want to wait with our design studio until we were finished studying, it is too much fun to wait. We started the studio in 2005, during our second year, the design 'tallow' was being produced at that time. From our studio in Eindhoven, we try to do the whole design process ourselves. From the idea until the finished product. In this way, we keep the production small and personal.'

Tineke is working mostly from her memories as a child. These memories are vague but give a very clear feeling and ambiance. This she is using later in her designs.
Nathan is working more from physical laws and scientific studies. This knowledge he uses in his designs. Coming summer his graduating project will be at this site.
When Tineke and Nathan are designing together, this is giving a great mix of ambiance and technique.

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Marbelous
"The world of adults furniture and the world children's toys don't seem to belong together.
From my childhood I remember it was always exiting to combine these two.          I used the woodcarvings of furniture as a playfield for my puppets, to play in a new world.
Functional woodcarvings and decoration you can play with. Applying woodcarvings in a piece of furniture that combines the world of adults with the world of the children.
A marble track in a table. I've created this new type of functional woodcarving, that invites you to play with it..."

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When I was little...
"Barbie dolls, playmobil and doll houses... They have become too small for me, or I am too big for them. When I was little, I made accessories for my dolls. With these accessories and dolls I made stories. Ordinary everyday stories, with everyday things. Nowadays these stories are special memories. These special memories can be a part of our everyday life again. Looking at my small toys and using their specific shapes and solutions I've redesigned and made my toys the adult size. And when you use my products in your daily life, you can't help to dream away sometimes..."

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Tallow
"Some products always need each other. They belong together like a hammer and a nail, bed and blanket and cup and saucer. By melting them together in one material, their relationship is clear. All tallow."

Designer Bertjan Pot

You have all seen the Random Light by Bertjan Pot for Moooi, but have you seen the aftercoming designs he made, inspired by the technique used for the Random Light? Let me show you the Random Chair, the Carbon Copy, the Carbon Chair, the Carbon Cloud, the Netted Lamp and the Non Random Light!

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The original Random Light, designed in 2001 for Moooi

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The Random Chair is the follow-up of the Random Light. Epoxy drained carbon fiber is coiled over a single sided mould. It won the "materiaalfonds"-prize 2003 and is sold through Goods.

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Carbon Copy, an exact copy of Bertjans favorite chair by Charles Eames, but made totally out of carbon fiber and epoxy. Because of the great original design the chair is strong enough to sit on even in this material!

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The Carbon Chair, designed in cooperation with Marcel Wanders and inspired by the Carbon Copy. This chair was completely hand coiled and is 100% carbon fiber and epoxy (so, no metal frame!). The pattern on the seat looks random but actually reflects the strength pattern. Every point on the rim of the chair is connected with all 4 points where the seat is connected to base-frame.

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The Netted Lamp, a circular net soaked in resin, (used in the diving industry) that was sucked around a cluster of balloons.

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The Carbon Cloud. Two shelving units and a bed are covered in a carbon cloud as if coiled by a giant spider. From the inside out, the carbon cloud is like a three-dimensional dream catcher. From the outside the featherweight carbon structure is a bubble hard to burst, proposing a border between the real world and a sleeping place.
In the shelving a few fantasies about products are placed. A collection of squashes as light shades, a shrunken golden stool, a knitted lamp, an anarchistic chess game and a seamlessly upholstered chair are stored as if ready to be dreamed.

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The Non-Random Light. When Moooi transferred the production of the Random Light from manual to machine one of the problems they encountered was making it "random". When that problem was solved Bertjan decided to use the machines preference to make non-random structures and after a while the Non-Random Light was born. Not only the structure is non random here. Where the Random Light was throwing it's light around the whole room, the Non-Random Light directs most of it downwards due to the small reflector on top that also hides most of the light bulb.

Lighting from Ruben

The Swedish brand Ruben Lighting is associated with very classic and timeless design with a slight industrial, functionalistic feel, which is exactly my style! The person behind this brand is Niclas Hoflin, former CEO for one of Sweden's largest media companies, but now an inventor and designer of these lamps, which are manufactured in Sweden to minimize transports and coated with eco-friendly paint. Last year they won the prize for best lighting in Elle Decoration UK.

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Designer Erika Lövqvist

Swedish designer Erika Lövqvist recently won the 2007 Wallpaper* prize for best wallcovering for her Illusion tiles. Erika has a long education in Ceramics and Glass, having studied at both Konstfack and Orrefors Glass School in Sweden and Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle. However, I discovered her work through her wonderful steel Water-Lily tables, shelves and lights.

Ps. Don't forget to enter the competition if you want a chance to win a Norm 69 lamp! The deadline is tomorrow night (March 6).

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Ny Svensk Slöjd

Ny Svensk Slöjd (= New Swedish Crafts) was founded by Tim Alpen, Erik Björk and Mattias Karlsson, all based in Stockholm, Sweden. At the Stockholm furniture fair 2008 the group displayed their first collection of everyday objects, a birch log strip light, a windsor loveseat, shelf system, chairs, a lamp, and a coat hanger all made by the concept of bringing new design out of old handicraft.

Their furniture struck me as very authentic and well-made, but with a touch of the modern minimalistic style that Scandinavia has become so famous for. Modern meets traditional is a good way to describe it. Or as they say: "A collection where the plane meets the computer".

I totally fell in love with the coatrack! Uh, stupid does that sound?! Well, I trust that you are as much of design freaks as I am, so you will hopefully understand what I mean...

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Katarina Andersson, designer

Modern, scandi-style interior products by Katarina Andersson, a Swedish designer who has worked with IIttala, Design House Stockholm and Villeroy & Boch.

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Bunker Hill design

Bunker Hill was founded in 2005 by architect MFA Daniel Franzén, one of the founders of TAF Architecture. His most famous project is the just 11 square meters small apartment he designed in 2002, with a fully functioning kitchen with seating for up to 8 persons, and a 120 cm wide bed big enough for two.

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I also want to show you this very minimalistic apartment, designed as a calm oasis for a musician who needed something tranquil to come home to between tours.

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Fredrika Linder, glass designer

"In my work the shaping of the material is in focus. By making use of the movement in the warm glass and its transparent abilites, I try to balance the polairitys between control and freedom, to see where the limits are between spontanous expressions and the repeated skilled craft."

Fredrika Linder

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Alexander Lervik, designer

I would like to introduce you to one of Sweden's greatest designers and interior architects at the moment, Alexander Lervik. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972. Started out in design as a carpenter apprentice for two years. (1993-1994). Studied three years of product and interior design at Beckmans School of Design (1995-1998). Alexander Lervik is represented at the renowned National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, Nasjonal museum in Oslo, Norway and at the Röhsska Museum of Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden where he has an exhibition called Enlightenment until January 27.

Here are some of my favourite pieces by Alexander:

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