We are delighted to announce that the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg has now acquired the Masonite cabinet with 18 drawers for their permanent collection. The cabinet is now on display in the permanent exhibition Design Stories.

12 Oct– 08 Dec 2024
This exhibition is a selection from Folkform’s collected works, made using the last of the original hardboards manufactured at the Masonite factory in Rundvik in the north of Sweden.

Welcome!

Landskrona konsthall
Slottsgatan 5
Landskrona, Sweden

Folkform exhibit at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the invention of Masonite in Laurel in 1924, Improving Nature: Engineered Wood in Art & Design features historical and contemporary works created with wood technology. Masonite improves upon nature in that it is less likely than wood to crack and warp, and artists have taken advantage of those characteristics in using the material to produce artwork and furniture. Designers and artists have also used technologies like laminating and steam bending to produce shapes and forms that nature cannot. The exhibition is part of an ongoing series that uses the strengths of the Museum’s collection and Laurel’s history to make connections to contemporary art. Improving Nature: Engineered Wood in Art & Design features artwork from three centuries that show what can be achieved when nature and science come together.
Open May 28 – August 4, 2024
Welcome!

During Stockholm Design week Folkform was invited by Nordiska Kompaniet to make a unique Folkform Window display of Masonite works and pleated lights in connection to the exhibition NK exhibition “Made in Sweden” an exhibition focusing on local production.

Nordiska Kompaniet
Hamngatan 18-20
Stockholm

Welcome to the Swedish Pavilion at the London Design Fair. We are so excited to be one of three handpicked design studios to exhibit at the Swedish Pavilion stand 1C24 at the Truman Brewery. The exhibition was curated by Stamuli in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in London. Welcome to visit us and our friends Stamuli and Swedish Ninja. We also pre-launch the Pink Monochromes Carpet Collection in collaboration with Louis de poortere and Dahl agenturer.

21th – 24th September
at the Truman Brewery
stand 1C24.⁠

Art and design duo Folkform challenge long-held traditions of the fine art of pleating, presenting an innovative lighting collection that brings craftsmanship into contemporary times.
Welcome to Svenskt Tenn!
Strandvägen 5
Feb 6 – April 2 2023

Opening hours viewing
Mon-Fri 10am – 6pm
Sat 10am – 5pm
Sun 11am – 4pm

The Gallery Edition
Welcome to The Exhibition with The Blue Tapestries with Ldp and Dahl Agenturer.
Stofair C14:11

We are so happy that the l’art Plissé Lamp series by Folkform has been awarded the Residence Magazine Form Award 2022 in the category lighting of the year.
Motivation: A sophisticated jewel of light that brings the somewhat neglected handcraft of pleating to the fore in a contemporary setting.
Thank you!

The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair is exhibited at Sven-Harrys Art Museum in Stockholm from today. The Masonite Chair is a collaboration between the iconic Swedish interior architect Åke Axelsson and Folkform. The chair is inspired by an experimental design by Åke Axelsson from 1978, he then made several interpretations of a Marcel Breuer chair ”Ti3a”. The new Folkform+Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair was designed as a unique piece for the exhibition Talking to Åke. The exhibition at Sven Harrys Art Museum is running 5th of February to the 27th of March!
WELCOME!

We are honoured that the Red Plissé Lamp is being nominated for the Swedish Design Award by Rum in the category Furniture of the year 2021!

FOLKFORM + HJORT: L’ART PLISSÉ
Bar Brillo 29 October-24 January 2021
Folkform and artist Roland Hjort interpret traditional pleating techniques in a joint exhibition
Welcome!

The Dezeen award jury has long-listed 318 projects from 4300 international applicants! We are happy and honoured! Thank you again Dezeen!

Folkform: Factory Works is an exhibition and auction of objects from the Stockholm-based design studio Folkform. Taking a selection from Folkform’s collected works of product and furniture design, Factory Works includes pieces produced over the last 15 years.
Welcome!

Viewing February 9–12, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
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Folkform: Production Novellas
On 5 October 2019 the large-scale exhibition Production Novellas by Folkform will open at Vandalorum in Värnamo.
5 October 2019 – 8 march 2020
Vandalorum, Värnamo

Design studio Folkform is proud to reveal Patchwork, a specially commissioned leather Bench that will grace the museum´s galleries and entrance lobby.

Örsjö belysning celebrates its heritage with Folkform designed-display.
Hope to see you there!
Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair
5-9 Feb 2019
Stand A07:11

Folkform at Bodafors
15 June – 9 September 2018
Open hours: 11-17
Address: Magasinsgatan 8, Bodafors

For the upcoming Stockholm Design week Folkform have curated and designed the exhibition stand för Örsjö belysning as well as a new collection of floor standing and table lights. In this exhibition Folkform are interested in the intimate connection between hand and head in the manufacturing process.
6-10 Feb 2018
Stand A07:11

The project is a collaboration between Folkform and the bookbinders workshop craftmen in the old town of Milan, and the curators at 5-vie Art+Design.
Exhibition open: 9am-6pm 4th-8th April 2017
Address: Legatoria Conti Borbone, Corso Magenta 31, Milan
Welcome!

The studio is honoured to be the winner of the 2016 Lauritz Icon award for the lamp Skyline. The award ceremony was held in Stockholm in the beginning of December.
Thank You again Lauritz.com International and Residence Magazine
http://www.residencemagazine.se/arets-lauritz-icon-2016-folkform/

International launch of our new Revolving Bookcases. The event takes place at the long-established Rönnells bookshop in Stockholm.

Place: Rönnells Antikvariat
Address: Birger Jarlsgatan 32
Opening: 10th of February 6pm-9pm
Reading by Carl Johan De Geer at 7pm
To attend please contact olivia@folkform.se
Exhibition open: 11–20th of February 2016

Folkform is a part of the Romanian Design Week, an annual event in Bucharest that promote design and architecture.
May 16th to 24th, 2015.

Cabinets with Stripes by Folkform commissioned by Nordiska Museet.

Exhibition: Oct 4th – Aug 31th 2014
Address: Djurgårdsvägen 6–16 Stockholm

7x4m Composition in Fabric and Metals
For this unique textile Folkform collaborated with the material scientists at the institute of Thechnology in Stockholm. The textile consists of over 600 pieces of metals and fabrics that are sawn by hand in collaboration with the skilled craftswomen at HV Studio.

Commission for The Royal Institute of Technology 2013

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HV STUDIO is noted for the professional and artistic competence of its staff. Long experience of interpreting and realizing the designer’s intention in different forms of textile art has given the studio a unique reputation in this field.
More than a century of collaboration between leading Swedish artists and HV’s skilled craftswomen has ensured a constant revitalization of textile art in Sweden and has helped to maintain the high professional capacity of the studio.

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Folkform Wall light pieces at New Makers and Doers.
Superstudio Più, Zona Tortona 9–14 april, 2013.
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Presentation of the new project: To Deconstruct the Campus

Chair Hall B, B07:11
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
Stockholmsmässan

Exhibition
Feb 5th–9th

The crystal pieces will be presented at the biennale for art and design at the chateau of Mikulově.

Date: 1–3 june

Address: Regional Museum in Mikulově, Chateau Mikulově, Czech Republic | Find

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“We looked at two decades to the mark of the new millennium and amazingly we find ourselves thinking, imagining, representing, designing,
and still dreaming about candles.”

Poldi Pezzoli Museum | Via Manzoni 12, Milan | Find
5th April – 21st May 2012
10 am – 6 pm (closed on Tuesdays)

Opening
Wednesday 4th April, 2012 | 6.30 pm
Cocktail
Thursday 19th April, 2012 | 6.30 pm

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Folkform invites you to the group exhibition Work in Progress. New talents and renowned designers uncover their work processes and tell the stories behind new ideas and works.

Exhibition: Feb 8th – 10th, 12:00 am – 6:00 pm
Address: Regeringsgatan 48, Stockholm | Find
www.work-progress.se

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The exhibition Industrial Intervention started off with a trip to the old glassworks in the Czech countryside. The new pieces explore the collision between mass-produced and handmade articles, where crafts meet industry, the machine meets the hand. Can something new be created when traditional handicraft is incorporated into existing industrial manufacturing processes?

Read a review here (in swedish)

Read more about this project here.

FOLKFORM is pleased to announce the opening of its new studio space and product gallery at Grindsgatan 29, Södermalm, Stockholm.

Welcome to visit us!

Study of Stones in Milan
Raw material from the ancient swedish limestone hills forms the basis of a new series of articles.
In the new series in stone Folkform has been collaborating with some of the few stone masons still working in the Gillberga quarry.
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A New series of furniture; Stone Veneer Tables. The table top is made of an entirely new stone material, where wafer-thin sheets of stone are cut and glued into a 1 mm thick stone top {–––}

The Scale of Things at La Pelota-Milan-8/4-13/4
Six of Sweden’s foremost designers’ interpretation of the con­cept of scale: to scale down, scale up, scale in relation between objects and between images and reality, to scale as monu­ments and miniatures and in terms of distance. A unique op­portunity to witness widely differing design interpretations never before presented in Milan.
April 8 – April 13
An exhibition of experimental work by Jens Fager, Folkform, Färg & Blanche, Jonas Wagell, Lukas Dahlén & Matti Klenell.
Address: Via Palermo 10, Milan
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The Swedish Design Award premiers for the second time around the best examples of Swedish design. Among over 200 contributions only 19 designs have been nominated by a renowned. A number of these nominees will then in June be premiered with the Swedish Design Award. {–––}

Foward the end of his life, Mathsson established a foundation that, since 1984, has awarded an annual prize to individuals who strongly contribute to development of furniture design and related design fields. The Bruno Mathsson Prize is today the largest design prize in the Nordic region, and to highlight its importance, this exhibition presents the many prominent designers and interior architects who have received the prize. Award winners in the exhibition:
Fredrik Paulsen, Jenny Nordberg, Finn Ahlgren, Front, Pierre Sindre, Monica Förster, Chris Martin, Folkform, TAF, Shane Schneck, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Jonas Bohlin, Staffan Holm, Mika Tolvanen, Daniel Rybakken, Thomas Bernstrand, Cecilie Manz, Anna Kraitz, Louise Campbell, Ilkka Suppanen, Johannes Norlander, Anderssen & Voll, Andreas Engesvik, Anna von Schewen, Sigurður Gústafsson, Gunilla Allard, Simo Heikkilä, Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen, Mats Theselius, Åke Axelsson, Kari Virtanen

Vandalorum, Värnamo
October 26th – March 30th 2025
Welcome!

The Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg opened its new permanent design exhibition entitled Design Stories. A journey of discovery in design from the end of the 19th century until today with over 500 objects from the museum’s collection. Happy and grateful that the book Produktionsoveller has been acquired by the museum together with Folkform’s Masonite cabinet with 18 drawers. The book, which is also co-founder Anna Holmquists thesis, is hiding in one of the drawers in the cupboard forever. Welcome to visit the exhibition, which opens today, November 9, to the public. Thank you once again Röhsska museum.

An exhibition of Masonite works from Folkform.

Since establishing Folkform in Stockholm in 2005, designers Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell have explored Sweden’s industrial heritage through the creation of objects that sit at the intersection of craftsmanship and industry.

This display is a selection from Folkform’s collected works, made using the last of the original hardboards manufactured at a Masonite factory in Rundvik in the north of Sweden. Also featured is The Production Novellas, a publication by Folkform that offers an artistic investigation of material and place, revealing the studio’s in-depth research into material cultures.

Told through the studio’s 15-year collaboration with the now-closed Masonite factory, The Museum of Masonite examines how design can re-connect consumers with industry, craft and local traditions.

The Folkform Museum of Masonite is hosting book readings with a glass of wine on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon at 4pm. C14:42

Welcome!
Stockholm Furniture fair
6th -10th February
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Svenskt Tenn celebrates 100 years!
New print design originally named “Stockholm” when it was created by Josef Frank 1949-1950.

Welcome to Svenskt Tenn!
Strandvägen 5
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Folkform wins Scandinavian Design Awards 2023!
We are honoured to announce that earlier this week Folkform was awarded The Scandinavian Design Awards as Designer of the Year 2023! We offer our sincere thanks to the jury for their kind nomination and for believing in our future design work.

Scandinavian Design Awards is a new award initiated to celebrate the best design, architecture and interiors in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The awards comprise eight categories, including Architecture of the Year and Sustainability Award of the Year, and is a collaboration between the Stockholm Furniture Fair and the publishing house It Is Media. The award can be seen as an attempt to bring the industry together, with the aim to recognize and pay tribute to newcomers and established players working with architecture and design in Scandinavia,
The award ceremony took place on February 6 in the Stockholm City Hall during a spectacular awards dinner. The evening was led by Elis Monteverde Burrau

The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair is exhibited at Älvsjögård
The Masonite Chair is a collaboration between the iconic Swedish interior architect Åke Axelsson and Folkform. The chair is inspired by an experimental design by Åke Axelsson from 1978, he then made several interpretations of a Marcel Breuer chair ”Ti3a”.

Address
Älvsjö gårdsväg 3

Open hours
Tuesday 9am – 3pm
Wednesday – Friday 9am – 6 pm
Saturday 10am – 5pm

Reception at Studio Frantzén at Harrods, London.
Studio Frantzén at Harrods is now officially opened.

Folkforms lamp Skyline was acquired for the permanent design collections by the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Female Traces – Female furniture designers through 100 years
The exhibition Female Traces highlights both historical pioneers from the 20th century and women in today’s young designer generation. With a generous selection of Swedish and international material, the exhibition provides a picture of the importance that female designers have had for the development of modern and contemporary design.

The exhibition shows furniture such as chairs, armchairs, shelves and tables by, among others, Aino Aalto, Mia Cullin, Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, Monica Förster, Eileen Gray, Lena Larsson, Karin Mobring and Charlotte Perriand.
FEBRUARY 5 – APRIL 24
Welcome!

Plissé White first studio edition is possible to order through Folkform. Come by our gallery or send us an email info@folkform.se

Folkform: Production Novellas will reopen
on the19th of September. The large-scale solo exhibition “Production Novellas” will open at Rian Designmuseum in Falkenberg.
Welcome!
19 September – 22 November 2020
Address: Skepparesträtet 2, 311 74 Falkenberg

Folkform: Production Novellas will reopen
on the14th of March. The large-scale solo exhibition “Production Novellas” will open at Form/Design Center in Malmö.
Opening Saturday 14th of March 12pm-2pm
Welcome!

14 March – 10 May 2020
Open: Tue – Sat 11 – 17 Sun 12 – 16
Address: Lilla Torg 9, Malmö, Sweden

In their new interpretation of the tabouret, Folkform’s ambition is to challenge the classic shape drawn by Bruno Mathsson by means of combining materials and techniques in new ways. The covering is made of leather from the Tärnsjö tannery and in the same dark brown tone used for the benches Folkform designed for the National Museum in 2018. The legs are pigmented with varnish in dark brown.

Welcome!
Stockholm Furniture Fair, stand A05:18

Folkform has been longlisted for the Dezeen Designer of the Year Award 2019!
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For this year’s Dezeen award Folkform has been long-listed in the categories Exhibition design: ”Folkform Production Novellas” Installation design: the Mural at Spånga public swimming pool, and finally Folkform were longlisted in the category for seating design with the design of the Plank chair. {–––}

A collaboration between Folkform, Färgfabriken and Södertörn University.
Folkform will be hosting their very first Public Art Lab at Färgfabriken.
Among invited speakers are
Bigert & Bergström, Folkform, Katja Pettersson, Päivi Ernkvist, Frida Fjellman, Magdalena Nilsson and others.

Join us in Milan April 16-22 during Milano Design Week.
Via Eugenio Balzan 4, in Brera Design District
Press Preview Monday 16 April 09.00-17.00
Opening Party Tuesday 17 April 18.00-22.00
Welcome!

In collaboration with the craftsmen at the bookbinders workshop Folkform are manufacturing one unique book each day during the exhibition in Milan.
Welcome to se the result Legatoria Conti Borbone at Corso Magenta 31.

ÖRSJÖ
Salone Del Mobile
Euroluce
04-09 April 2017.
Pav 13 E01
Welcome!

Folkform summer exhibition
18 June – 21 August 2016
Address: Gallery Nivå 125
Finnsbovägen 277
Båstad

Read the interview at

www.svd.se/duon-som-plockar-upp-material-ur-skamvran

– Twelve methods that investigate contemporary design culture. An exhibition curated by Folkform in collaboration with Johanna Agerman Ross during Stockholm Furniture Fair 2015.
In the field of design in recent years, the practical method of making has become just as a prominent part of a project as the finished design itself. This is what Twelve 2015 will highlight.
3-7 Feb 2015
Stand B12:11

“Releasing a revolving bookcase in the world of flat screens is a manifesto for the thoughtful.”
Folkform was awarded Residence magazine’s “launch of the year” prize for the revolving bookcase, book case sold exclusively at Svenskt Tenn, the limited edition pieces such as the Archiver is still possible to order from Folkform.
http://www.residencemagazine.se/arets-lansering-2016-boksnurran/
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Black and White Fractional Numbers
Sculpture inspired by mathematical fractional numbers, the black and white squares are divided into geometric shapes each representing a mathematical problem.
The patterns were created during a workshop with the children at the school.
Vansta, 2013

International launch of our new products for Skultuna. The event takes place in the new Skultuna Concept Store at Grev Turegatan 18 in Stockholm.

We invite you to the exhibition Feb 4th–Feb 9th
Address: Grev Turegatan 18
www.skultuna.se

A Folkform exhibition at Skandium
Date: 19-28 September 2012
Address: 245-249 Brompton Road
London SW3 2EP

Check out the patchwork leather benches that we will exhibit.

Folkforms hand and machine cut vase was acquired by the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

See the vase here.

International launch of new products by Richard Hutten, Folkform and Claesson Koivisto Rune. The event takes place in the new Skultuna Concept Store at Grev Turegatan 18 in Stockholm.

Address: Grev Turegatan 18, Stockholm | Find
Date: Feb 6th, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
www.skultuna.se

Welcome!

The Ambassador of Sweden will open up her Residence at Portland Place for a Swedish design exhibition. The magnificent architecture of Robert and James Adam will shed a new light on the contemporary shapes of Swedish design for one of the first events during the Design Festival. Folkform will exhibit limited edition pieces of lamps and candle holders in brass and bronze and selected glass pieces from the Industrial Intervention exhibition.

To read more click here

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FOLKFORMs Unique Standard collection, masonite cabinet was acquired for the permanent design collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway.

Gallery Pascale, the first dedicated design gallery in Sweden, will be hosting an exhibition of a limited edition series of candelabras by FOLKFORM.
Folkform has created its Candle Collages series for Gallery Pascale in cooperation with Liljeholmen Candle Factory. The collection is comprised of unique candelabras and candleholders. Simple tea light candles are placed side-by-side with pillar candles and more exclusive hand-crafted votives. The various lights are traditionally used in separate contexts. The new candelabras combine these different types of candles with unique materials to create an entirely new form of expression. {–––}

FOLKFORM exhibiting at Mint during the London Design Festival.
For this years London Design Festival, Mint will showcase its intriguing and thought provoking show Mint Escapes. The exhibition will present The Escapists of contemporary design as our modern day storytellers who use the medium of design and craft as the interpretive voice of imagination. This project is in collaboration with Max Fraser author of the Annual London Design Guide 2009. {–––}

Folkforms Unique Standard collection, marble cabinet was acquired for the permanent design collections by the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

The product will now be on display in Material ConneXions four locations; New York, Bangkok, Cologne and Milan