We finally had a chance to check out a few new designs from Design House Stockholm, which have been making tradeshow rounds as of earlier this year, at their booth at the ICFF. (It doesn't get much more Scandinavian than this... not that that's a bad thing by any means.)
The new "Form" pendant lamp (at top and above) is the namesake of up-and-coming Swedish design trio Form Us with Love.
Lamps are like people, they are happiest in families. The Form Pendants from design group Form Us With Love are a bunch of glass lamps that are stronger as a group. The basis consists of three blown glass forms borrowed from the timeless world of the light bulb with industrial shades and globes but refined to a beautiful abstraction in white with a spatial sensation. The idea is that we should find our own combinations of lamps at work, or at home above the dinner table... [from] Three lamps together or 25 of them in an illuminated sculptural mobile.
The blown-glass fixtures take halogen bulbs.
From left: The Cord lamp and Work Lamp Gold are also by FUWL, shown alongside iconic block lamps.
The "Rock" chair by Fredrik Färg is essentially a rocking chair that has been reduced to its simplest possible form, developed by the designer "during an exchange term in Australia where I was given an assignment to created a chair using only MDF board and a jig saw." He relates that "It was a challenge to produce something personal and coherent using the simplest means."
Rock Chair is a knock-down design sold in a flat pack. The five pieces are easy to fit together. When the chair has been assembled, the construction is its expressive feature. Nothing is hidden and one can see how the chair holds together. There is a toy-like charm to its simplicity. As a model, Rock Chair is like a drawing that one can sit on, as beautiful as it is cleverly functional.Rocking chairs encourage one to sit for a long time. While working on the Rock Chair Fredrik also had the idea of producing soft cushions for it. The round cushions are a graphically elegant addition to the generous forms of the rocking chair and make it comfortable. Rock Seat comes in two variants, one in leather and one in cotton canvas. The idea is that the cushions should last for a long time and gain a more beautiful patina with the passing of the years.
