Tracing Water
Tracing Water
The textile industry is one of the world’s most water-intensive industries. Textile production uses around 93 billion cubic metres of water annually: large quantities are consumed in the manufacturing process, as well as in the production of raw materials. However, this issue is often overlooked in the choice of textiles for a project, and so Kvadrat is developing different initiatives to minimise impact on water resources during manufacturing.
The fabrics chosen for the dividers, Sport and Tero Outdoor, use post-consumer plastic waste and challenge the perceived aesthetic of reused materials – all of which chimes with Folkform’s interest in questioning people’s preconceptions of what materials are considered valuable or not. Sport uses 100 per cent recycled plastic otherwise bound for the ocean, while Tero Outdoor reuses polyester, which significantly reduces water consumption during textile production. {---}
The Monochromes
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Östra järnvägsgatan 23, Stockholm
Södra larmgatan 2, Göteborg
Södra promenaden 53, Malmö
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Public Art Installation in Sundbyberg
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Production Novellas
The Production Novellas is an artistic investigation of material and place, revealing a decade of research by Anna Holmquist, co-founder of Folkform design studio. Told through her 10-year collaboration with a now-closed Masonite factory in Rundvik, Norrbotten, Holmquist examines how design can re-connect consumers with industry, craft and local traditions. {---}
The Last of the Hardboards
The Folkform exhibition “the Last of the Hardboards” is on view at Konstakademien in Stockholm until 29 April 2023.
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Pleated for Frank
Art and design duo Folkform interprets Josef Frank’s pattern universe in a new lighting collection for Svenskt Tenn. The series of sculptural and pleated table lamps and lamp shades are launched together with a large exhibition that opens in connection with Stockholm Design Week 2023.
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The Blue Tapestries
The new tapestries, all of which are signed and numbered, were created with the Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis De Poortere (LDP). {---}
The Masonite Chair
The Masonite Chair is made from original recovered Masonite from 1963, in combination with the last Masonite boards produced in the factory in Rundvik in April 2011. {---}
L’Art Plissé: Folkform + Hjort
All lamps for sale through Folkform.
First edition and studio produced.
Please contact us for more information at info@folkform.se
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L’Art Plissé: Folkform + Hjort
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L’Art Plissé
FOLKFORM + HJORT: L’ART PLISSÉ
The exhibition L’art plissé focuses on the subtle art of pleating. In it, the design studio Folkform presents a new series of table lamps whose forms are inspired by pleated fashion garments. {---}
Public Art Installation in Spånga
As the local community come to swim, we wanted the artwork to remind them of the built environment outside of the pool. The pattern of the mural is an abstracted visualisation of the suburb’s city plan as seen from above. The composition is reminiscent of a topographical map with its town square, a tree-lined avenue, the train track and train station, all represented in different materials.
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Bruno Mathsson
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. {---}
Nationalmuseum Entrance Lobby
After five years of renovations, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm is reopening with updated galleries, and a new-look museum restaurant and retail space. When it now opens its doors to the public, design studio Folkform is proud to reveal Patchwork; a specially commissioned leather bench that will grace the museum’s galleries and entrance lobby.
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Patchwork Bench
The bench has a dark-stained wood base with a seat upholstered in leather. While the design at first appears strict, Folkform has taken a playful approach to the leather upholstery and has experimented with a patchwork of different leather upholstery methods from deep-buttoning to plain leather surfaces, combining different traditional techniques in new ways.
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In Collaboration with Eriksson & Söner
Folkform produced 25 benches for Nationalmuseum and worked closely with the cabinets makers Eriksson & söner, the carpentry workshop in Vrena. {---}
From the Hands Of
Folkform invited documentary photographer Magnus Laupa to follow the work of the craftsmen in the Örsjö lamp factory. The resulting images will be presented in Örsjö Belysning stand during Stockholm Furniture Fair 2018. Each new piece has been executed by the hands of skilled craftsmen. The most common definition of craft is that it involves the skill of making things by {---}
Folkform at Rönnells
The exhibition is a unique collaboration between Folkform and the long-established Rönnells bookshop on Birger Jarlsgatan, Stockholm. Folkform have chosen the beautiful rooms of the venerable bookshop for the exhibition of their new book cases, a place filled with books from floor to ceiling, where they will put their new sculptural bookcases on show for the first time.
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Archiver
The rectangular cases sit on cylindrical bases, which rotate so books can be accessed from every angle. The bookcases come in different heights, the smaller archiver can be placed on a table or desk. {---}
Light Weight Concrete Planter
Each is made from blocks of Ytong aerated concrete, a lightweight material with a matte surface that disguises a highly porous inner structure. {---}
Skyline Wall
The new Skyline Wall light was designed in 2014. The series comes in white powder-coated aluminium, as well as brass and cortén steel. The wall light can be used for both indoor and outdoor areas. {---}
Black and White Fractional Numbers
The patterns were created during a workshop with the children at the school.
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Suburban Skyline
The Skyline lamp series is designed by Folkform. The lamp is inspired by the architecture of different suburban districts of Stockholm. {---}
Limnhamn – The foundry of Candle Collage
For the candle collage collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south coast of Sweden. {---}
Gillberga – The stone quarry
The latest stop on Folkform’s journey through the Swedish manufacturing industry has been {---}
The recovered Masonite from 1929
The cabinets are made from original recovered Masonite from 1929, in combination with the last {---}
7 x 4m Composition in Fabric and Metals
For this unique textile Folkform collaborated with the material scientists at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm. {---}
The Hagströmer Libary
An old book is not just literature but often a hand crafted artefact in itself.
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Tärnsjö- The leather tannery
This road trip went to the Tärnsjö leather Tannery established in 1857. {---}
Masonite : Memoriam
Masonite cabinets exclusively for Svenskt Tenn. {---}
Limnhamn – The foundry
Folkform is committed to working with local manufacturers. For the Bronze Cabinet collection {---}
The Making of Masonite
Natural flowers have been inserted into the huge masonite presses to embed a permanent organic decoration. {---}
Mdf and Granite Display Case
New interpretations of today’s standard materials {---}
Candleholder, Raw Aluminium
For this collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south coast of Sweden. The duo is committed to working with local manufacturers
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