LampGustaf is a Swedish company founded in the late 60's and that manufactures and sells a variety of products in the lighting. At the Stockholm Furniture Fair was presented lamp Rya to say the least, grass-like design.

However, this should not deter you from going to check out this lamp design is both bold and original. Rya is made of a frame of metal and a lampshade in the right rug and delivered in the colors brown, beige, white and green. If you want to have the largest grass-esteem is so clear green color to choose!

Read more ... An awful light!

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We will in the following weeks to write about interesting things we saw at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, which took place from 4th to 8th February.

We start by talking about a prestigious award that was given to a couple of Swedish designers. Newton coffee table by Karl Andersson & Sons won namely this year's Nordic design award at the furniture fair and it is Dan Sunaga and Staffan Holm is behind this molded wooden table. The jury believes that the furniture "is unique in its design language with a strong graphic identity." Nordic Design Prize has been awarded since 1983 and focuses on the creators of compression molded wood furniture.

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I dare say that in almost every home, they can find a couch. It can be a sofa, sofa bed, finsoffa, corner sofa, leather sofa, modular sofa ... dear child has many names and there are a plethora of different varieties of "seating with room for two or more people." I've never come across a similar sofa in two different homes. However, it is not surprising given all the lovely sofas that we have our Nordic designers to thank for.

Finn Juhl, a Danish designer, designed several amazing couches in 1940 - and the 50's. Juhl sofa poet reminds a little about Carl Malmsten Sofa Samsas , which is my absolute favorite couch. The favorite among Juhl sofa is something extraordinary. The sofa impresses with its unique two-piece backrest that closes the sitting like a protective wall.

Read more ... Scandinavia's best sofas?

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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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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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Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988) was the son of a fourth generation Swedish cabinet maker. He loved architecture and interior design. Although he was reared toilers with beautiful wood from woodworking world, he was drawn in another direction of motion functionality in the early 1900's.

Using functionalism in interior design means that you certify that everything in the home has a specific purpose. Some of Mathsson previous works were considered ugly by those who did not know funktionaliströrelsen. When a hospital bought his chairs in 1931 for their waiting room visitors found them so ugly that the chairs eventually stored in an attic, never to be used again. In any case, his breakthrough on a show in New York 1939th

Mathsson was not just a functionalist, convinced that every part of his design should have a purpose, he was also a self-proclaimed perfectionist who thought that a piece of furniture should be aesthetically pleasing from all angles before it could be considered finished. One of his most popular designs are table superellipse.

Read more ... Table superellipse - a reflection of functionalism beauty in simplicity

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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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Bruno Mathsson is best known for his chairs and his architectural designs such as his well-insulated and beautiful glass house, but he made other fine home furnishings inclusive computer table, sofa beds and dining table. One of the most versatile and well known is Mathsson folding table, a design that is elegant and beautiful but also extremely practical.

It was natural that a young Mathsson would grow up to work especially wood, genera Mathsson had not worked on anything else during the five generations before him. As a little boy, he had chores to do in the family's furniture and carpenter, and he had practical experience and knowledge of different techniques, tools and woods all his life.

To learn more, especially in engineering and technology aspect that were not available in the small town Värnamo, ordered Mathsson books and consulted experts. He was not only learning and knowledge but also created a network of mentors who would help him later. His formal education was part funded through design awards he won for his Furniture .

Read more ... Mathsson folding table: designed for versatile beauty

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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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