The contemporary master architect, Jonas Lindvall, uses classic natural materials to warm the minimalist detailing of this house in Malmo, Sweden. And I love that what little furniture there is was designed by the architect.
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A beautiful new office space in Stockholm that looks like it gets the balance right between a very cool first impression and somewhere you can actually get some work done. Or put another way, a not-so-common case where a very photogenic design actually responds directly to the client brief and the needs of the base building. Fun and ingenious at the same time, the designers restored the grandeur of the listed space by inserting a central mirror wall down the length of the building.
The new camping, Swedish style. I could definitely be persuaded.
With its ‘flat pack’ facade and intelligent floor plan this house overlooking the North Sea by young Swedish architect Johannes Norlander feels like the future.
A perfect fit for the way we live now, this clever little table by the dynamic design foursome Front for Established & Sons would work everywhere from a Paris boudoir to a minimalist Japanese open plan. Transformations was launched at Milan design week earlier this month.
With the on-off switch doubling as a dimmer control for the new-tech halogen globe, this limited edition shelf light is almost as versatile as it is cute. The work of designer Andreas Martin-Lof, the mix of materials is lovely. And with each component part lovingly sourced from the workshops of local Swedish suppliers, the A.M.L Clamp is a piece of home decor with a tail at least as long as its brilliant blue fabric flex.
Bojne by Nike Karlesson is a brilliant new chair from Ikea that’s not only gives its (much pricier) contemporaries a run for their money in the personality stakes, but is a cinch to move around, can be hung from the table top to make cleaning easier and even offers the perfect spot to hang your handbag. Democratic design just look another leap.
Front‘s new Black & White storage range for Italian design house Porro (directed by Piero Lissoni) plays with the softening effect of wavy, hand-made look lines on rigid, conventional furniture forms. The all-girl Swedish design ensemble want to create for ‘people who have not forgotten emotion in furnishing’. Even (or maybe especially) if it’s furniture for the workplace. I like Lissoni’s view of the world and Front’s is a direction that slots right in with Porro’s bigger vision for more sensual, emotional work spaces, with technology taking a step back. Sounds good.
If you’re in Milan any time soon, the Porro take on office furniture is now on show at their showroom at Via Durini, 15.
Big parquetry, big pattern, big colour. But this idiosyncratic restoration of an art nouveau apartment fallen on hard times by architectural duo Than & Videgard Hansson is remarkable for much more than its controversial good looks. The architects may have shunned the international zeitgeist in favour of a localized, artisan-inspired bespoke, but the result is much more progressive poetic than provincial.
photos: Than & Videgard Hansson via designboom
It’s the turn of Euroluce at I Saloni 2009. So as excitment builds and the focus in Milano shifts from kitchens and bathrooms to (some some beautifully restrained) lighting, here’s my shortform collection of the most eye-catching online previews so far…
A new emphasis on classic, vaguely retro forms seems a theme running through much of the lighting (especially pendants) debuting in Milan. Personal favourites include, from the top down, Naoto Fukasawa‘s ‘bucket’ and ‘dome’ for Panasonic Electric Works; ‘Top’ by first time product designers Swedish architectural duo Tham & Videgard Hansson Italian company Zero; and ‘Rem’ by Spanish design studio Yonoh for Almerich. Milan design week and Euroluce open on April 22.
