Stockholm Furniture Fair Celebrates 70 Years with a Forward-Looking Showcase
As the Stockholm Furniture Fair marks its 70th anniversary, we round up our top picks from the global showcase of Scandinavian design.
As the Stockholm Furniture Fair marks its 70th anniversary, we round up our top picks from the global showcase of Scandinavian design that has evolved from a local exhibition founded in 1951 into one of the most progressive events on the design calendar.
While other fairs’ environmental efforts so far this year might have felt tokenistic at best, sustainability was the ‘red thread’ that ran through the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Kasthall launched its second rug based on circular production techniques using its own waste as a raw material. Designed in-house by Ellinor Eliasson, Flourish solves the problem of mismatched left-over yarn, by weaving it all together into a patchwork-style rug inspired by the view of farmland from a plane.
Stockholm-based multidisciplinary design practice Note Design Studio designed The Natural Bond ? an exhibition space for contract flooring brand Tarkett and “a forum for change”. By creating a temporary structure that can be dismantled and reused after the fair, Note posed questions about a more sustainable, circular future, and created a space for the discussion that ensued. “Bonded by lashing straps, temporary objects in the installation symbolize a future that is under construction,” they say. “The materials used are either recycled or will be recycled ...
As the Stockholm Furniture Fair marks its 70th anniversary, we round up our top picks from the global showcase of Scandinavian design that has evolved from a local exhibition founded in 1951 into one of the most progressive events on the design calendar.
While other fairs’ environmental efforts so far this year might have felt tokenistic at best, sustainability was the ‘red thread’ that ran through the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Kasthall launched its second rug based on circular production techniques using its own waste as a raw material. Designed in-house by Ellinor Eliasson, Flourish solves the problem of mismatched left-over yarn, by weaving it all together into a patchwork-style rug inspired by the view of farmland from a plane.
Stockholm-based multidisciplinary design practice Note Design Studio designed The Natural Bond ? an exhibition space for contract flooring brand Tarkett and “a forum for change”. By creating a temporary structure that can be dismantled and reused after the fair, Note posed questions about a more sustainable, circular future, and created a space for the discussion that ensued. “Bonded by lashing straps, temporary objects in the installation symbolize a future that is under construction,” they say. “The materials used are either recycled or will be recycled ...
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