Dezeen LIVE: Stockholm Design Week 2025
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The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital (3-9 February). Updated throughout the day with exclusive previews of products, installations and events.5.00pm terrazzo on tapDesigner Gustav Winsth looked to traditional taverns when designing this city showroom for glassware brand Bobo, reports Dezeen's Jane Englefield.Image by Jane EnglefieldCreated as an after-work spot to enjoy drinks sipped from Bobo's wafer-thin glasses, the showroom includes a pair of distinctive terrazzo taps designed to echo what they pour: one long tap in gold and white for foamy beer and another short pink-red tap for negronis better try both, just to be sure.Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide 4.45pm skl!Architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR) took journalists, including Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn who filed this report, on an exclusive tour of its new studio, taking over a grand 1890s apartment in Sdermalm, which once belonged to "some wealthy family".The new studio space is in a grand 1890s apartmentCKR renovated the home, preserving the classical, linear arrangement of the stucco-clad rooms with their ceramic fireplaces, while new shelving was added using wood repurposed from the studio's 2021 anniversary exhibition at Stockholm's Royal Academy of Fine Arts.Claesson Koivisto Rune renovated the space, maintaining original design detailsThe studio also showcased its latest collection for Swedish heritage glassware brand Orrefors, using three geometric forms the cone, sphere and cylinder to create glasses for any kind of drink (including, and perhaps most importantly, tequila shots).CKR are debuting a new glassware collection for Orrefors at Stockholm Design Week 2025CKR founders Mrten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune said they used an almost architectural approach to designing the assortment, aiming to create "a city of buildings" when setting the dinner table.Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn loves the collection but fears its delicacy!Personally, I'm obsessed but I fear I might break them within about 2.5 seconds of picking them up. Jennifer HahnObligatory shot of architectural models on the shelves of CKR's new studio space. Images by Jennifer Hahn4.15pm feline photogenicThe Dezeen team met the first pet of design week today!The cat was comfortable posing for visiting journalistsAt design studio Matsson Marnell's exhibition in co-founder Magda Marnell's home, the family cat whose name Dezeen sadly didn't cat-ch posed in front of the striking design pieces on show. Cajsa Carlson3.15pm functional sculpturesTeased on the blog yesterday (4.00pm entry), Cajsa Carlson has now written up the full exhibition from experimental design platform lvsj Grd at Stockholm Furniture Fair. Check it out below.Read: lvsj Grd exhibition showcases "functional sculptures" and undulating furniture2.45pm celebrating collaborationTo mark the anniversary of their decade-long collaboration, &Tradition has released a duo of new products from designer Luca Nichetto.Nichetto has designed the Muno chair for &TraditionThe Muno chair is the "little brother" of Nichetto's Cloud Sofa the first-ever product he created for the brand while Gio is a metal homage to Gio Ponti's iconic Murano glass chandelier.The Gio light takes its inspiration from Gio Ponti's Murano glass chandelierLater this year, &Tradition teased, there will also be a celebration of the designer's best-selling Lato side table.The Lato side table is Nichetto's best-selling design for &Tradition. Images by Jennifer Hahn"We are celebrating ten years by doing a special thing with this little fellow that allowed me to live properly," Nichetto joked. "Before that, I was broke."Dezeen's Max Fraser and Luca Nichetto, in conversation, took place last night (February 4) in &Tradition's spaceLast night, Nichetto explained the story behind these new products in a talk with Dezeen's Max Fraser, a fun-filled 40 minutes with plenty of anecdotes from Nichetto's career.2.00pm best foot forwardDezeen's Jennifer Hahn has some great lines from Stockholm Furniture Fair director Daniel Heckscher who, speaking to journalists, said "we're aiming to be the best design fair in the world"."Not the biggest we'll never beat Milan but the best. I'm not quite sure how we're going to get there yet but we're going to get there."1.30pm roll the diceDezeen's Clara Finnigan is taking a time check at David Taylor's Special Effects exhibit, on show at auction house Bukowskis.David Taylor's latest collection is on display at BukowskisTaylor's latest foray into collectible design includes a modern take on a grandfather clock.The pieces are made from aluminiumThe exhibition consists of 25 exclusive pieces created by Taylor in his signature material, aluminium.Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide Images by Clara Finnigan1.15pm disrupt more, waste lessMax's meatballs were well-earned, having just come from the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair where he moderated the latest Design Disruptors talk with with designer and educator Ineke Hans, who talked about her work and how to disrupt more, waste less and act better.Ineke Hans (right) takes part in Dezeen's Design Disruptors talk seriesIn the last of four Design Disruptors events that Dezeen has organised this week, editor-at-large Amy Frearson has just taken to the same stage for a panel discussion titled The AI-volution, with speakers Sean Barrett from Interesting Times Gang; design director of FranklinTill Marta Giralt Dunj; Copy Lab founder Carl-Axel Wahlstrm; and Gharage's Alexandra Zenner.Amy Frearson (far left) moderates the final Dezeen Design Disruptors talk at Stockholm Furniture FairMarta Giralt Dunj said "to truly expand our creative potential, we need AI collaborators that challenge us, provoke critic thinking and make space for reflection, experimentation and even failure."1.00pm the money shotDezeen's Max Fraser is enjoying Swedish meatballs for lunch with Annica Eklund, creative director of House of Bolon, who is hosting a pop-up this week in the chic Stockholm restaurant Riche.Image by Max Fraser12.30pm a seat at the tableNJRD is unveiling timber furniture at the Grand Relations office, including a dining table, chairs and a sleek, long bench called Vior designed for communal meals and named after the Norse word for wood.NJRD's new dining table features a full-length matching benchA number of enviable design objects are on display at Grand Relations' office, including a cluster of classic Alvar Aalto for Iittala vases and an irresistible stack of Dezeen Dispatch newspapers. Jane EnglefieldAlvar Aalto for Iittala vases are displayed at the Grand Relations office. Images by Jane Englefield12.00pm Fit for a king! Dezeen social editor Clara Finnigan has been to see seven limited edition pieces by Nick Ross on show at Public Service Gallery.The limited edition of timber furniture is on show at Public Service GalleryThe collection uses the pruned branches of linden trees planted by King Frederick I of Sweden in the early 1700s.Images by Clara Finnigan11.30am love is your colourIt's all about colour for design studio Form Us With Love at Stockholm Furniture Fair this year, where the brand presents its collaboration with Swedish company Dalform.The collection is a collaboration between Form Us With Love and DalformForm Us With Love's collection, called Soft Edge, included benches and cabinets with curved shapes and bright hues, and were a new interpretation of Dalform's public-space furniture.Modular seating and storage systems are rendered in bright coloursFounders and designers Jonas Petterson and John Lfgrendrew on their knowledge of modular design to create the vibrant pieces, which can be combined to create larger storage or seating systems. Cajsa Carlson11.00am brilliantly bad AI designsLeading design store Nordiska Galleriet has started producing its own products, launching this week with the Lamp 53 by Axel Wannberg and the Empire chair by Sami Kallio.Axel Wannberg has designed lamps for Nordiska GallerietFurther to these launches, design studio Front has been experimenting with the possibilities and limitations of AI, with an installation in the store exhibiting their "AI-brilliantly bad" collection.Front worked with a range of AI models to interpret their sketches and drawings into three-dimensional objectsThis evening, Nordiska Galleriet will host the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025 with a talk and party entries have opened today! Max Fraser10.30am 3D-printed feet!Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn has spotted these 3D-printed ceramic joints, which hold up the wooden framework of a pavilion in Stockholm Furniture Fair's Greenhouse area, created by design firms Polymorf and Studio Pank.The joints have been 3D-printedThe flexible building system was constructed using timber from diseased elm trees and crooked cherry wood, which would otherwise have been incinerated.Images by Jennifer Hahn9:45am design of noteDezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson has been to see Note Design Studio's latest project for flooring company Tarkett Atelj.Note Design Studio have designed the conversation pit with TarkettThe Stockholm-based studio has redesigned Tarkett's showroom, adding in a centrepiece that is bound to be a talking point a huge circular conversation pit, lined with yellow-ochre carpet.Charlotte Ackemar (left) and Lukas Petko of Note Design Studio collaborated with Tarkett on the conversation pitMatching cushions can be added or removed, so the pit can be used in various ways. The designers have done such a job of colour-matching the textile that accident-prone Frearson couldn't tell the difference and nearly tried to step down on the wrong one! Amy FrearsonThe installation is at the Tarkett showroom. Images by Amy Frearson[Ed. note: You can play quite a fun game of render vs reality for this project by checking out the listing in the Stockholm Design Week digital guide from Dezeen Events Guide.]9.30am god morgon!Welcome to day two of our live coverage of Stockholm Design Week. As the team get out and about in Stockholm to bring you more design, catch up on everything that happened on Tuesday at Stockholm Design Week 2025.Later today Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser and editor-at-large Amy Frearson will be moderating the next two Design Disruptors talks at the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair.Stockholm designers share their favourite local spots and hidden gemsFor our first print publication, Dezeen Dispatch, Dezeen asked some of the city's most prominent designers (and one architect) to share their recommendations for the best places to eat, drink and soak up culture across the Swedish capital.Find out about everything going on in the Stockholm Design Week guide created by Dezeen Events Guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.All times are Stockholm time.The lead image is by Jennifer Hahn.The post Dezeen LIVE: Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.
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