I fell hard for the Potential For Collapse collection created by Axel Yberg of Akke Functional Art. Each one-of-a-kind piece looks to be delicately put together and ready to topple at any moment, but is in fact, very sturdy and carefully constructed. Walking a fine line between art and design, these pieces are made to “represent the delicate nature of the human psyche and the inherent risks involved in taking chances — as well as the great rewards that come from successfully pursuing one’s dreams.” Amen to that!
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Dis(order) Furniture is a modular furniture system, designed by Sanjin Halilovic, that is multifunctional, adaptable, and most of all, playful and quirky. Geometric shapes make up each piece of white furniture trimmed in red, yellow, green, and black, making the shapes even more striking.
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Farbkasten by Sven Stornebel is a product with my favorite product description so far this year: “just a box with color glue.” So matter-of-fact and nonchalant. There’s something really cool about these – I would love to see them with a gradient of colored glue from top to bottom.
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From Belgium-born, Italy-based designer Joeri Reynaert comes the Tuberack shelf / space divider. Tuberack is easy to assemble and made of solid oak. The clever piece uses no screws or glue for assembly but instead is held together with rubber tubes that can also hold your books and magazines.
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Aspeqt desk light
Creative people need creative spaces. This is something I’ve explored at length in my own blog and we’ve started looking at here in the new Where I Work column, so it was really exciting to see so much new and innovative furniture for the working environment at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.
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Italian architect and designer Elena Galli Giallini has been living in Japan since 1995 and brings a multicultural education to her designs. She recently designed the Deinde Collection for Japanese furniture company Morishige. This collection incorporates the use of urushi, which is traditional Japanese lacquer, with modern furniture.
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Martí Guixé has designed this Free Port cabinet for Spanish company BD Barcelona. Made of MDF that includes veneer of various types of wood with different lacquer finishes, the cabinet sits on aluminum and steel legs. I love that each storage section isn’t the same, meaning you can have this cabinet perform multiple uses such as an entertainment center, bookshelf and wine bar all in one.
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Lund School of Architecture, clockwise from top left: Kim Ohrstrom, Kajsa Nillson, Christopher Polteg and Freja Elvin-Nowak
Greenhouse, the hall at the Stockholm Furniture Fair for design schools, students, and independent designers, was one of the most exciting sections of the fair.
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The Italian company AK47 recently launched their new home collection for 2012. Their line continues but this time with items for inside the home whereas before, they focused on the outside. They’ve taken simple ideas and created an innovative, space-saving, and extremely functional line of modern housewares that are all about customization for each person’s needs.
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For this year’s Alcro Designers Collection, the paint manufacturer challenged ten students from Beckman’s College of Design to breathe new life into old pieces of furniture, using nothing but a lick of paint. The result is the ad.retur collection.
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