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For three years, the Stockholm Furniture Fair had to take a break due to the pandemic. That both the organisers and the Scandinavian creatives and companies have integrated the current change into their work during this time became quite clear when the gates of Stockholmsmässan finally opened again from 7 to 11 February 2023.

Offecct unveiled the "Pauline" armchair, designed along with the "Thelma" sound absorber by French designer Pauline Deltour shortly before her death, at this year's Stockholm Design Week.

Offecct likes to try out unconventional shapes in furniture design - even if it is that of a sushi roll.

For years there have been calls for sustainability in furniture design. That said, it is not always easy to define just exactly what is meant by this, which makes it difficult to actually put sustaina...

Offecct has furnished the Gothenburg Central Office for Transport Infrastructure. The result: flexible spaces that invite social interaction.

Hard-edged and technoid or soft and round – formally furniture and fashion are certainly not so far apart from each other.

They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.

Stockholm Design Week revealed that noise reduction can look good and smartphones are also changing our furniture. But just what is behind “New Nordic”?

News from the North? Yes, indeed! Even though the makers of the Stockholm Furniture Fair have completely revised the hall layout we managed to glimpse the hottest innovations – here are the 12 most exciting ones.

Claesson Koivisto Rune’s Mårten Claesson explains why Swedes found the transition to open offices so easy and why you shouldn’t turn a lawyer’s office into a playground. An interview by Martina Metzner

Today amateur gardeners are referred to as urban gardeners. The new generation of urban nature lovers has no need for simple flower pots; multifunctional is the name of the game!