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The Norwegian furniture company, Nora launched a new dinner table at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. The table, which is designed by Öystein Austad and Jonas Stokke, is made entirely of wood and gives a clean feeling. Table dimensions are 180 × 90x72, but it can also be supplied in a larger expandable version.

Nora is a relatively new Norwegian company that specializes in making and selling furniture with exclusive design. Among the designs is seen in Tore Borgerssen, Michael Olofsson, Ivar Grødal and already mentioned Austad and Stokke. Only Norwegian guttar in other words!

Read more ... Stylish Norwegian design on show

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Many of you have probably heard of Corona chair or recognize it from the "moment of truth." The designer behind the Corona, it is probably not as many people know about.

We will therefore look at another one of Denmark's leading designers - Poul Volther.

Read more ... Corona chair by Poul Volther

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Carl Malmsten is perhaps Sweden's most prominent designers. In Malmsten design, we see a mix of tradition and modernity in the simplicity of the Swedish peasant furniture as a starting point. Malmsten forms came to have a major influence on future generations of designers and the development of modern Swedish furniture.

Malmsten was raised in a middle-class family in Stockholm at the end of the 1800s, but was as a young man not interested in either education or status. He was considered controversial and outspoken back then and he took employment as an apprentice carpenter. He quickly became a highly skilled craftsman and in combination with a strong interest in art, this was the beginning of a great career. Malmsten was recognized designer at age 28 in 1916 when he won both the first and second prize in a furniture competition under the auspices of the Stockholm City Hall.

Read more ... Carl Malmsten - naive idealist or misunderstood genius?

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Finnish design often end up in the shadow of its Nordic neighbors, especially in terms of furniture design. Finland are also not to Scandinavia as geography, which is reflected in the style. The main characteristic of Finnish design is a strong preference for curves, rounded surfaces and - like much of the Norwegian chair design - comfort.

Yrjö Kukkapuro swivel armchair Karuselli has fascinated and pleased our muscles in his nearly 45 years. Even at first glance of Karusellis profile and bizarre feet, we understand that this can not be classed as Scandinavian design. The armchair is well known for being Habitat founder Terence Conran's favorite, because it simply is incredibly comfortable to sit in. That it reserves in this way is no accident then Karuse lli is actually modeled on the human body. The anecdotes behind the inspiration and the emergence of the chair varies.

Read more ... Karuselli by Yrjö Kukkapuro

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Are you one of those subjects that interest you very for the interior design market? If you are aware you are likely to everything about the wonderful and exciting Arabesk-chair. This is a unique chair that many find to be a good addition to any room. It helps not only with elegance and style to any room, it's very functional and comfortable at the same time.

Arabesk-chair's story is not complex, but still interesting. First Arabesk-chair was created and was designed by Folke Jansson 1955th The first seat carved out of the timber by hand to give it a very unique appearance. After being carved out was filled with rubber and then covered by a fabric in yellow and black.

This furniture was seen as a strong example of the Scandinavian art of the mid-century. It was difficult to find when it was handmade, but it was also very sought after. Due to its uniqueness and beauty, it has been reproduced in large quantities so that everyone who wants one can get it at their home or office.

Read more ... Arabesk chairs: Unique furniture design

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When it comes to interior design, virtually all heard of the Swedish and scan Scandinavian schools and the pervasive style called Swedish mother, or sometimes the Swedish modernism. One of the leading names was the late Bruno Mathsson . He was born in 1907 into a family of woodworkers in Värnamo in Sweden and lived until 1988.

Although he was a student of the craft tradition of his country, went Mathsson far beyond it and used the shapes and styles that reflected the living things, like grasshoppers, and people. He wanted his
Furniture would be practical and above all else comfortable and his real genius was that at the same time make it extremely beautiful.

Read more ... Eva-chairs of Bruno Mathsson continues to please

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There are certain designs that never goes out of style. Classic designers create furniture that are works of art. The artwork is beautiful and brilliantly designed, making them a wonderful addition to any designer. Classics stand the test of time and can be estimated during the era that time.

One such designer is Bruno Mathsson . Mathsson developed his architectural style from a variety of influences. His cabinet manufacturing dad and the ongoing trend in Swedish furniture during his lifetime, two of his most obvious influences. He was a designer whose furniture escaped the usual boundaries to become something special.

Read more ... Jetson chair is a modern under

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The year 2007 marked the passing of a great furniture designer Hans J. Wegner. He was born in Tonder in Denmark in 1914 and became known as the most successful and prominent personality in the modern Danish design school. His style is based on clean and simple lines that together are beautiful and quiet.

Hans J. Wegner began as a painter, but had his career interrupted by a time millitärtjänstgöring. He was educated at a technical school and later wrote in on Copenhagen's Academy of Architecture in addition to vocational school for arts and crafts. Later he worked under Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen ( http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Jacobsen ).

He specialized chair designs, which he preferred to see the artwork as something useful to sit on. One of his well-known philosophies was that a chair should look very good from all sides and that there should be a back of the chair. He wanted very basic and processed forms, but used many different shapes and materials in their preferences.

Read more ... Hans J. Wegner: A Danish modern icon

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There are several different styles of furniture making and these can range from very ornate to purely functional and practical as office Furniture and school furniture. Some styles are very tied to a particular designer, period, time or even region of origin. The use of wood has been the mainstay in the furniture making as both art and utility software, and craftsmen in Scandinavia has excelled in the area.

One of the great masters of designing furniture in the so-called Scandinavian style was Bruno Mathsson . He was a maker of fine furniture designer and a successful architect. Mathsson's most famous furniture was designed in 1930 - and 1940's, but the designs are still produced and is imitated and even piraktkopierade around the world.

Many of Mathsson's best known furniture designer is different lounge chairs, including his Pernilla 2 easy chair and Pernilla 3 lounger. To try to find the most comfortable piece of furniture forms sat Mathsson once in the snow in order to observe the form that arose from his natural sitting position, and this can clearly see again in particular Pernilla 3-seat.

Read more ... Mathsson Pernilla chair characterize functional beauty

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Scandinavian design was a very large part of the 1900s home furnishings industry, and some names are different indeed from the crowd. Among these are Bruno Mathsson, Hans Wegner, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen, but one of the most memorable is Yngve Ekström, who was born at Haga Fors ( Goolge Maps ) in Småland 1913th

Then Haga Fors is the city in Sweden with Elders presence in the furniture industry, it was no surprise that a young Yngve Ekström was drawn to what was so popular and pervasive in his surroundings. Like many other Scandinavian designers, he studied not only the woodwork but learned also from the academic study of art history and related painting, drawing and sculpting. Many of the style elements in his work is clearly related to the studies.

1945 he founded and his brother Jerker Swedese , one of the most respected manufacturers of modern Furniture in the world. He continued to be active in the company until his death, a career of over forty years. Products from Swedese included elegant, artistic works for the home, but the clean profile and utilitariska design, they made even more popular in larger offices and businesses.

Read more ... Yngve Ekström, founder of Swedese and Lamino chair designer

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