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.
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. {---}
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 Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair
The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair was designed as a unique piece for the exhibition Talking to Åke at Sven Harrys Art Museum.
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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, alongside 10 newly created artworks – some of which are also folded – by the artist Roland Hjort. Textile prints of Hjort’s works have been used to create Folkform’s pleated lampshades, giving the lights a dynamic, sculptural character. A series of monochrome lamps will also be available.
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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Folkform + Hjort: L’art plissé
All lamps for sale through Folkform, first edition and studio produced please contact us for more information at info@folkform.se {---}
Folkform + Hjort: L’art plissé
Textile prints of Roland Hjort’s works have been used to create Folkform’s pleated lampshades, giving the lights a dynamic, sculptural character.
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Folkform public art installation in Spånga
In the mural we explored materials by visually play with the tension between new and old surfaces. Instead of manufacturing all new materials for the project the glass represents a creative practice of reuse and the tiles and bricks are an instance of employing industrial ready-mades. It is utilising old ornamented vintage glass and new pressed glass prisms that were going to be discarded, bringing them back to life.
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Folkform interpret Tabouret
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. {---}
Revolving Bookcase for Nationalmuseum
Revolving bookcase are for sale through Folkform, limited edition and studio produced. {---}
Gallery benches, Nationalmuseum
Folkform worked with the upholsterer Sara Lindqvist to develop the different upholstery methods, these ranging from the eighteen century (1700) and nineteenth century (1800), to minimalist styles from the beginning of the twentieth century(1900). In this sense, Patchwork is a perfect refection of its new environment, a building with a nineteenth century heritage, updated for a twenty-first century audience. {---}
New gallery benches for Nationalmuseum
Design studio Folkform is proud to reveal Patchwork, a specially commissioned leather Bench that will grace the museum´s galleries and entrance lobby. {---}
Folkform in Milan
Join us in Milan
April 16-22
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
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Revolving Bookcase at Svenskt Tenn
The bookcases are a new interpretation of traditional revolving bookcases, these often featuring three or four levels with larger volumes being stored at the bottom. The Revolving Bookcase is currently produced for Svenskt Tenn in black lacquered ash by Eriksson & Söner Cabinet Makers in Vrena, outside Nyköping. {---}
Book release
For the exhibition, Folkform and the graphic designer Martin Frostner, will publish a book made up of the finishing lines of novels contained in the Rönnell collection. The book will allow all endings to be the beginning of something new, and the title of the book and the exhibition “Now you are at the beginning again” appears in the final lines of a novel written by the young author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. {---}
Bartable Light weight Concrete
Each is made from blocks of Ytong aerated concrete, a lightweight material with a matte surface that disguises a highly porous inner structure. {---}
Skyline Pendant
The Skyline lamp series designed by Folkform is now being produced by Swedish lighting brand Örsjö Belysning, the design of the blocky forms are based on the concrete buildings of a Stockholm suburb. {---}
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. {---}
Suburban Skyline, pendant
The lamp was gifted to the Swedish consort Her Majesty Queen Silvia for her seventieth birthday from the Prime Minister and the Swedish Parliament. {---}
Candle Collage, bronze
Candle Collage is available in brass through Skultuna. Bronze and aluminum is available in limited edition. {---}
Stone Veneer Tables
Folkform wish to create something together with some of the few stone masons still in existence. The table is made out of 1mm stone veneer. {---}
Masonite : Memoriam
Green and Red Masonite Cabinet with two doors.
Dimension: 700 x 1500 mm
Edition: 4 pieces / each {---}
7 x 4m Composition in Fabric and Metals
The textile consists of over 600 pieces of metals and fabrics that are sawn by hand.
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Bookends
The bookends is manufactured by Skultuna
which a Swedish producer of fine metal objects.
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Patchwork Leather Bench
The Leather benches are made from different leather upholstery methods, combined in the same bench. {---}
Masonite : Memoriam
Sidetable with two drawers. {---}
Bronze Cabinet
For the Bronze Cabinet collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south {---}
Masonite boards
By combining wood fibres with other organic material it has been possible to give this down-to-earth material an entirely new look. {---}
Unique Standard Marble Cabinet
The collection Unique Standard, questions our perception of various materials. {---}
Industrial Intervention – Crystal Glass
The project Industrial Intervention started off with a trip to the old glassworks in the Czech countryside. The new pieces explore the collision between… {---}