The work-from-home trend accelerated by Covid-19 was the starting point for these versatile furniture designs, unveiled by Beckmans College of Design students during Stockholm Design Week.
Six pairs of students from Beckmans product design programme have each teamed up with a different Swedish furniture brand to design and prototype a piece of furniture that could be used for either home or workplace activities.
Students collaborated with brands to produce the designs
Called Room Service, their designs respond to a time when more people are working from home than ever before, as a result of travel restrictions enforced to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The Scandinavian Design List: February 2021 [Stockholm Design Week Edition]
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The Scandinavian Design List is a tribute to all the inspiring design work that is coming out of this region. In this series, we put the spotlight on some of the most interesting latest releases.
The February edition of the Scandinavian Design List is led by Stockholm Design Week, a major highlight in every design enthusiastâs calendar. While this yearâs event will be a digital format, it has been organized with as much passion as always. Get your dose of Scandinavian design inspiration below!
A Tom Dixon hologram is presenting new products at Stockholm Design Week – the designer says digital technologies can revolutionise design presentations.
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.