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Stockholm Design Week 2016

From the traditional to the avant-garde, a variety of intriguing furniture and products set the standard for contemporary Scandinavian design at this year’s show.

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Luxury

Stockholm Design Week and Furniture Fair 2016: Review

At Stockholm’s off-site events, young designers were keen to present a new direction for Scandinavian design.

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Luxury

Stockholm Design Week and Furniture Fair 2016 Preview

The most celebrated event in Scandinavian design, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, will take place from 9 to 13 February 2016.

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Marketing & Branding

Wabi Sabi

Notions of transience and imperfection, which dominate Japanese aesthetic tradition, are giving rise to a new design direction in packaging that challenges perceptions of beauty with highly tactile, rough and raw surfaces and expressive, unpolished mark-making.

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Marketing & Branding

Stockholm Design Week 2014: Top 10

Stockholm Design Week offered a diverse series of exhibitions and events this year. Ranging from video installations in large branded showrooms to one-day exhibitions in pizza restaurants, the work was characteristically well thought out and well executed. Among the smaller exhibits, there was also a strong focus on studio-produced design and…

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Marketing & Branding

Stockholm Design Week 2014

New treatments for industrial materials, experimentation with texture pairings and contemporary craft were all explored at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair.

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Design

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2014 preview: Top 10

For an insight into contemporary Scandinavian design, Stockholm Furniture Fair is one of the highlights of the calendar. The 63rd edition of the largest window for Nordic furniture is set to be a diverse show, taking place both in the Stockholmsmässan exhibition centre and around the city. Stockholm Design Week, which runs in parallel with the…