A10:18
Friday 9 February 2024

The talk series asks: How do designers infuse their objects with stories about the materials they are made from? And, is it important to communicate the histories, places and spaces that have inspired a project?

Hosted by Oli Stratford, Disegno’s editor-in-chief, the conversations are open and free to all fair goers. Speakers include Faye Toogood, Folkform, Industrial Facility, and Hall.Haus.

The Designer as Anthropologist
The final conversation brings themes of research, narrative and social engagement to the stage. The panel brings together themes of research, narrative and social engagement to the stage. The panel brings together Sammy Bernoussi if Hall Haus, Anna Holmquist of Folkform and Mira Bergh Edenborg and Josefin Zachrisson of Swedish girls who will reflect on the potential and pitfalls of research-led methods in design.

WHEN: 1pm

WHERE: All events will take place at Stockholm Furniture Fair Talks – The Yellow Thread bar & stage area, Hall A.

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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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!

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

Cabinets with Stripes by Folkform commissioned by Nordiska Museet.

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

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.

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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 {---}

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. {---}

Experimenta Design Biennale 2008, Westerhuis Gallery, AMSTERDAM
Welcome to join the Opening 19th of september 9.00 PM
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The product will now be on display in Material ConneXions four locations; New York, Bangkok, Cologne and Milan

Bruno + 35 Mathsson Prize winners at Sven-Harrys Museum of Art Jan 26—Apr 7 2024
For the first time, Bruno Mathsson’s timeless furniture is shown together with 35 of the foremost of Nordic designers, all of whom have been awarded the prestigious Bruno Mathsson prize. In a uniquely comprehensive exhibition of high-class design, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Nordics’ largest design award, which is awarded annually by the Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation.

Sven-Harrys Museum of Art
Eastmansvägen 10–12, Stockholm
January 26th– April 7th

During the 2023 London Design Fair,Folkform, Stamuli and Swedish Ninja were commissioned by the Swedish Embassy to create a Pavilion that would represent the nation for the duration of the week. Now, the pavilion is coming home. During the Stockholm Furniture Fair we will once again come together as part of a group exhibition, showcasing some of the best in Swedish design.
Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
Stand: C15:30

Folkform at the Art Academy.
The Folkform exhibition “the Last of the Hardboards” is on view at Konstakademien in Stockholm until 29 April. The exhibition is a piece of industrial history told through our work with the Masonite hardboard. A decade of investigations and experimentation with the board material has resulted in a retrospective exhibition and a book publication titled the Production Novellas. Welcome to the book launch! This special edition of the book is numbered and printed in 300 copies.

BOOK RELEASE
Saturday 22 April open 11am – 11.59 pm

OPENING HOURS
Tuesday-Saturday 11am – 4pm

ADDRESS
Fredsgatan12
Stockholm

Welcome!

This is a unique opportunity to experience the Folkform atelier, the creative home of the design duo Chandra Ahlsell and Anna Holmquist and the place where their designs come to life. The exhibition in the studio features examples from the Plissé lighting collection in collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Roland Hjort.

Open Tue 7 feb – Fri 10 feb
10am – 4pm.
Grindsgatan 29
Södermalm, Stockholm

Presentation by Folkform
Wednesday Feb 8
At 9.30am – 11.00am.

Welcome!

Folkform + Louis De Poortere
Blue is one of three primary colours in traditional colour theory and, arguably, it is the most mysterious.
During Stockholm Design Week 5-11 September, Folkform takes over the Dahl showroom with a curated exhibition. The Blue Tapestries is an exhibition of limited edition textile based artworks.
Welcome!

PRESS BREAKFAST
Tuesday 6 September at 09.00
RSVP to annika@dahlagenturer.se

ARTIST TALK WITH FOLKFORM
Tuesday 6 September at 12.00
RSVP to event@dahlagenturer.se

COCKTAIL
Thursday 8 September at 17-21

OPENING HOURS STOCKHOLM DESIGN WEEK
Monday-Friday 9-17
Saturday 10-15
Sunday Closed

ADDRESS
Östra järnvägsgatan 23
Stockholm

MILAN DESIGN WEEK
Via Alessandro Tadino 2
Second floor, No.5
Porta Venezia
June 7-10 June 2022
9am – 7pm
Welcome to Cipango,
an exhibition by the Japanese brand Ariake, set in a residential apartment at Via Alessandro Tadino 2 in Milan. Ariake will present new furniture by Inga Sempé, Note Design studio, Neri and Hu and Gabriel Tan to mention a few, but also invites Folkform, Studio Cappelen Dimyr to exhibit their work since they all share an appreciation for craft.

The Dezeen award jury has long-listed 308 projects selected across 12 categories from over 4,700 entries from all around the world! We are happy and honoured! Thank you again Dezeen!

FOLKFORM + HJORT: L’ART PLISSÉ
AT STOCKHOLM DESIGN WEEK 8-13 February 2021

Folkform and artist Roland Hjort interpret traditional pleating techniques at “Inside Swedish design” an exhibition at Stockholms Auktionsverk during Stockholm Design Week.
Location viewing
Stockholms Auktionsverk
Nybrogatan 32, Stockholm

All lamps for sale through Folkform, first edition and studio produced please contact us for more information at info@folkform.se

Opening hours viewing
Wed–Fri 10–18
Sat 10–16
Welcome!

We are honored to announce that Folkform has been longlisted in three of the Dezeen Awards 2020 design categories:
Exhibition design, Seating Design and Installation design.

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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“The Plank Chair” is made from only two planks of wood. The unique curve of the backrest is formed through challenging the traditional bent wood technique by bending a whole plank.”
The curve of the backrest was made by wetting the wood and steaming it, then bending it and letting it harden into the curved shape.The Plank chair is currently on show at the Vandalorum art gallery but will be “on loan” to the exhibition at Sturegatan 18 during Stockholm Design week. Curated by Hanna Nova Beatrice, Set design and styling by Kråkvik D´orazio Styling by Sophia Bratt.
Welcome!
4-7 Feb 2020
Open: 10am-6pm
Sturegatan 18
Doorcode 1346

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. {---}

Örsjö Exhibition Stand
F15 Pavilion 13
Fiera Milano Strada
9-14 April 2019
Welcome!

We are honored that the Swedish Parliament has selected our skyline lamp as the nation´s gift for H.M Queen Silvia of Sweden on her 75th birthday. The brass table lamp will now complement the floor lamp already installed in the Royal Palace.

On the occasion of the Stockholm Design Week, Folkform will be hosting their very first Studio Conference. This combines an exhibition and conference format, with the idea of creating a platform to discuss the intersections between theory and practice-based design research. The exhibition runs inside the Örsjö exhibition stand, as a parallel narrative, and the conference sessions will be held as an independent event located inside the context of the Furniture Fair.
AMONG INVITED PARTICIPANTS ARE
Dr Catharine Rossi (UK), Andreas Nobel (SWE) Mårten Medbo (SWE) Folkform (SWE)

Selected by the curators among all prevoious exibitors at Salone Satellite are the Masonite Cabinet and Candle Collage
“SaloneSatellite. 20 Years of New Cretivity”
Dates: 4-25 April
Place: Fabbrica del Vapore
Address: via Procaccini 4, Milano
Open: 10 a.m – 7 p.m
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

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.

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

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.

Folkform cabinets by Svenskt Tenn

May 10 – June 10

Masonite:Memoriam
Launch of a new furniture line and exhibition of Masonite cabinets designed exclusively for Svenskt Tenn by the Folkform design duo. 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.

Opening: 10 maj 2012
Address: Strandvägen 5, 114 84 Stockholm | Find

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

The exhibition will include the new work developed exclusively for the Glassfactory.
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Stockholm designweek 2011

FOLKFORM was invited by fashion brand Whyred to create an exclusive installation for the newly opened flag ship store. The duo describes the installation as a celebration of old industrial processes and traditional manufacturing techniques. This exhibition will show limited edition pieces in brass and bronze.

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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. {---}

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

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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