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10 Questions With. Åke Axelsson
May 4, 2021
Designer and craftsman, Åke Axelsson. Photography by Bastian Birk Thuesen.
Åke Axelsson is one of Sweden s most respected designers and interior architects. During his career he has designed more than 200 chairs, earning him the moniker the king of chairs. Raised on a small farm in southern Sweden in the 1930s and 40s he learned traditional handicrafts at an early age before leaving home to train as a cabinetmaker.
By the 60s, he had branched out into interior architecture, specializing in large-scale interior commissions and began designing chairs specifically for his projects. In 2003, together with his daughter and son-in-law, Axelsson purchased Gärsnäs, a then struggling furniture factory that is now one of Sweden s most successful furniture manufacturers.
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Swedish design studio Folkform has teamed up with fashion designer Roland Hjort on L Art Plissé, a lighting design exhibition of table lamps based on traditional pleating techniques used in fashion.
The showcase, which is taking place as part of the wider Inside Swedish Design exhibition during Stockholm Design Week, was first shown at Bar Brillo in October and features a selection of the textural Plissé lights as well as prints by Hjort.
Top image: the print is even featured on the top of the lamp. Photo is by Kjell B Persson. Above: the lamp comes in red and blue as well as printed versions
Sweden needs more avant-garde design, according to curator Paola Bjäringer who has brought together eight women designers for an experimental Stockholm Design Week exhibition.
Housed in a former factory in the heart of Stockholm, the Misschiefs Takeover exhibition champions a more diverse and experimental approach to design than Sweden is traditionally known for.
Designers including Lotta Lampa, Kajsa Willner and Monica Förster have created a range of offbeat, self-motivated pieces that include characterful glass totems, a flame-like fibreglass bench and a series of slush-cast vases.
Paola Bjäringer founded Misschiefs in 2020 as a feminist collective
Misschiefs started out as a feminist collective, launched by Bjäringer in early 2020. The Swedish curator had recently moved to Stockholm, having spent most of her life in France, and was shocked by the lack of diversity visible in the city s design scene.