“The 2019 Bruno Mathsson Award was given to Chandra Ahlsell and Anna Lovisa Holmquist, from the design duo Folkform, for their keen research into how materials and manufacturing methods are valued in contemporary furniture production. Their work is focused on process and without prestige they tirelessly gather knowledge and engage in more traditional modes of production that otherwise might be lost to future generations. Through this process they create pieces of unique artistic expression, informed by free and unconstrained processes.”
Thank you Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation!

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!

Folkform was awarded ”Lauritz ICON Award” and Residence magazine’s “launch of the year” prize. We are honoured to be exhibiting at ArkDes. In this exhibition hosted by Residence Magazine we will display our new Suburban Skyline and Revolving Bookcase.
The exhibition is portrayed by leading Norwegian stylistduo Kråkvik & D’Orazio.
Welcome!
Exhibition open: Feb 8th–March 19th 2017
Address: Exercisplan 4, Skeppsholmen

Thank you Plaza Magazine for this lovely article and interview about Folkform

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

Artipelag 14 juni 2013 till 21 augusti 2013
Folkform is invited to Artipelag

Designers and architects have traditionally been inspired by nature and used wood as an important design material. Amongst Swedish designers, the popularity of wood has waxed and waned over time – culminating in the hysterical 1970s pine mania, when every kitchen table was made of a thick solid wood top and {---}

14th -30th September 2013

2 North Terrace
Alexander Square
London SW3 2BA
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Folkform is part of the group show Contemporary Lightworks at Gallery Kleerup.
An exhibition with new pieces by: Johan Carpner / Folkform / Alexander Lervik / Katja Pettersson.

Opening Party
Feb 4th 6pm–12pm
Jakobs Torg 3

Exhibition
Feb 5th–8th
3pm–8pm

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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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

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.

Queen Silvia of Sweden gets Skyline lamp from the Prime Minister for her birthday.
Thank you Skultuna for making this happen!

www.riksdagen.se

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FOLKFORMs Sea Plant Cabinet was acquired for the permanent design Collection of S. Bensimon Gallery, Paris, The cabinet will be on show for this year’s Maison&Objet

Date: 22-27 january
Address: 111 rue de Turenne, Paris
Tel: 0033 142 74 50 77

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. {---}

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. {---}

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

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!

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

Almedalen week is an annual event taking place June 28th to July 5th in and around Almedalen, a park in the city of Visby on the Swedish island Gotland.
With speeches, seminars and other political activities, it is considered to be the most important forum in Swedish politics. During the week, representatives from the major political parties in Sweden take turns to make speeches in Almedalen. 


Folkform will be represented at Almedalen Week between June 29th and July 2nd. Come and listen to our talk at Svensk Form on the 30th of June, 7.30pm-10pm ”Arkitekturträdgården”, Strandgatan 16 A.
WELCOME!

The Swedish Design Award premiers the best examples of Swedish design. Among over 200 contributions only 19 designs have been nominated by a renowed jury. A number of these nominees will today be premiered with the Swedish Design Award.

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

Folkform is launching the new furniture line Masonite:Memoriam containing Masonite cabinets designed exclusively for Svenskt Tenn. The cabinets are made from original recovered Masonite from 1929, in combination with the last Masonite boards produced in the factory in Rundvik in April 2011.

Check out the new cabinets here.

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

See the vase here.

“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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Auction of studio produced objects by Swedish and international designers; Ingegerd Råman, Matti Klenell, Folkform, Åsa Jungelius, TAF, Gustaf Nordenskiöld, Per B Sundberg, Thomas Bernstrand and more.

Exhibition: Feb 6th – 10th, 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Address: Jakobsdalsvägen 15A, Subway: Örnsberg | Find
www.ornsbergsauktionen.se

Folkform at Stockholm Auction House.
Candle Collage, Bronze edition No1, Masonite Memoriam will be at the Contemporary Auction
Viewing
5-8 Nov 11am-6pm (6pm talk by Folkform)
9-10 Nov 11am-5pm
11 Nov 11am-6pm
Auction
12 Nov 1pm
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FOLKFORM is pleased to announce the opening of its new studio space and product gallery at Grindsgatan 29, Södermalm, Stockholm.

Welcome to visit us!

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. {---}

Experimenta Design Biennale 2008, Westerhuis Gallery, AMSTERDAM
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The product will now be on display in Material ConneXions four locations; New York, Bangkok, Cologne and Milan