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- Sustainability isn’t trendy anymore.” During my stay in Milan i get to hear this phrase several times. The first time I only get surprised and dismiss it. I know better. There are so many designers working toward a more sustainable production and consumption today – compare it with five years ago, it’s a world of difference.
Take for example Design For Us, a design studio showing a collection of furniture made in collaboration with brain scientists with the intention to make patients recover quicker through a friendly hospital environment. The chairs and table are soft and light in a Nordic way, it is only when looking closer at them that it is evident that the ideas behind this project go deep. Read the rest of this entry »
Svensk Form is exhibiting in Milan with the title Swedish Love Stories – Welcome Home!
Saving the Planet In Style will be there to report from the Swedish stand and from interesting exhibitors around the fair with a keen eye for what is pointing to the future where that future is heading.
Engaged Scandinavian design seems to have become cosmopolite this year. The trend of natural wood, of focus on form, on seeming to be sustainable (not saying that this means that it isn’t), is not as present in Greenhouse this year as it was last. This year – at least at the Green House exhibition – all colours and a variety of materials have entered the stage and with that, I think, more ways of understanding sustainable design are also visible.
Colour potential
One designer who uses the potential visual expressions of reuse fully is Maria Westerberg (she has also made a mirror house at one of the entrances andit might even dazzle your eye). We have seen her work in used materials in different areas now, and it is relieving to see engaged design this frivolous and unrestrained. Read the rest of this entry »
The break for Saving the Planet In Style will be much shorter than advertised! From now on the website will be alive again and keep reporting on engaged design from Sweden and Scandinavia.
As an appetizer for Stockholm Design Week I will give you this photo of a lamp made by waste textiles by Egil Jansson, and after the jump products by Matilda Dominique, Egil Jansson, Anna Harbom, Julia Göransdotter, Anna Löfstrand, Rasmus Löfstrand Grip and Martina Nystrand, all coming from an exhibition in Trikåfabriken in Hammarby, south of central Stockholm. More about events during the week after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
On 27 October and 15 November it is time for exhibitions by Considerate Design (Design Med Omtanke), which takes place at Form / Design Center in Malmo and the Gothenburg Opera in Gothenburg. About fifteen companies will exhibit prototypes developed in collaboration with Considerate Design. The starting point is public spaces but private companies may also have need for the prototypes that are developed.
- The idea of the concept is to encourage innovation with a focus on the public sector that otherwise may have a slower product development. The keywords for the products and tools we develop are: “accessibility for all”, Read the rest of this entry »
From old and discarded – to exclusive and sought after, Design By Leftovers makes and tells the transformation of old furniture in a more enticing way than most.
“We believe that the old discarded and forgotten cen be reborn. That every person and everything has a story to tell.”
With intriguing stories attached to each object they take you into their universe where the visible history of a fabric or a furniture is held to the light for everyone to see and the hidden story of users and places is embellished on. Read the rest of this entry »
Kinnarps has furnished the new building for IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). The idea they have worked with has been, “if you don’t really need it, don’t build it”. A minimum of raw materials have thus been used during construction and renewable energy sources, such as solar cells, supply the office with power.
Photo from Kinnarps
