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The Monochromes

2023-09-21 | TAGS: Works
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Production Novellas

2023-09-21 | TAGS: Works

When the last Masonite factory in Sweden closed in 2011, Masonite became a historical and cultural heritage. The thesis portrays the collaboration between designers and craftsmen in various workshops, mainly within the Swedish manufacturing industry. It highlights the importance of a design process close to production and shows the many relationships hidden behind the product’s creation process.

The book can be purchased by Konstigbooks at https://konstigbooks.com/design-crafts/anna-lovisa-holmquist-produktionsnoveller.html
or email us at
info@folkform.se. {---}

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Production Novellas

2023-08-21 | TAGS: News | Works

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.

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The Blue Tapestries

2022-10-25 | TAGS: Works

The new tapestries, all of which are signed and numbered, were created with the Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis De Poortere (LDP). {---}

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The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair

2022-06-06 | TAGS: Works

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

2020-11-10 | TAGS: Works

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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Plissé White edition

2021-10-16 | TAGS: Works
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Folkform + Hjort: L’art plissé

2021-03-29 | TAGS: Works

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

2020-11-10 | TAGS: Works

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

2020-08-06 | TAGS: Works

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

2020-02-15 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Revolving Bookcase for Nationalmuseum

2021-04-28 | TAGS: Works

Revolving bookcase are for sale through Folkform, limited edition and studio produced. {---}

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Gallery benches, Nationalmuseum

2018-10-09 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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New gallery benches for Nationalmuseum

2018-10-01 | TAGS: Works

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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Folkform in Milan

2018-02-12 | TAGS: Works

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

Welcome! {---}

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Revolving Bookcase at Svenskt Tenn

2016-02-15 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Book release

2016-01-31 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Bartable Light weight Concrete

2015-02-06 | TAGS: Works

Each is made from blocks of Ytong aerated concrete, a lightweight material with a matte surface that disguises a highly porous inner structure. {---}

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Skyline Pendant

2015-06-22 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Black and White Fractional Numbers

2013-09-01 | TAGS: Works

Sculpture inspired by mathematical fractional numbers, the black and white squares are divided into geometric shapes each representing a mathematical problem. {---}

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Suburban Skyline, pendant

2014-09-18 | TAGS: Works

The lamp was gifted to the Swedish consort Her Majesty Queen Silvia for her seventieth birthday from the Prime Minister and the Swedish Parliament. {---}

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Candle Collage, bronze

2013-09-02 | TAGS: Works

Candle Collage is available in brass through Skultuna. Bronze and aluminum is available in limited edition. {---}

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Stone Veneer Tables

2014-02-04 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Masonite : Memoriam

2013-10-10 | TAGS: Works

Green and Red Masonite Cabinet with two doors.
Dimension: 700 x 1500 mm
Edition: 4 pieces / each {---}

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7 x 4m Composition in Fabric and Metals

2013-10-08 | TAGS: Works

The textile consists of over 600 pieces of metals and fabrics that are sawn by hand.
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Bookends

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

The bookends is manufactured by Skultuna
which a Swedish producer of fine metal objects.
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Patchwork Leather Bench

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

The Leather benches are made from different leather upholstery methods, combined in the same bench. {---}

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Masonite : Memoriam

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

Sidetable with two drawers. {---}

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Bronze Cabinet

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

For the Bronze Cabinet collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south {---}

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Masonite boards

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

By combining wood fibres with other organic material it has been possible to give this down-to-earth material an entirely new look. {---}

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Unique Standard Marble Cabinet

2011-08-01 | TAGS: Works

The collection Unique Standard, questions our perception of various materials. {---}

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Industrial Intervention – Crystal Glass

2011-07-01 | TAGS: Works

The project Industrial Intervention started off with a trip to the old glassworks in the Czech countryside. The new pieces explore the collision between… {---}

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The Monochromes

2023-09-21 | TAGS: Works
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Pleated for Frank

2023-03-02 | TAGS: Works

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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Pleated for Frank

2023-03-02 | TAGS: Works

Traditional pleating techniques in focus when Folkform presents new collection for Svenskt Tenn. {---}

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The Blue Tapestries

2022-10-25 | TAGS: Works

Folkform’s work is both inspired by and challenges traditional manufacturing techniques. The Blue Tapestry Artworks are no exception. They draw on the Wilton carpet, a type of woven textile developed in 18th-Century England. These are made using a single backing, often jute, woven around the pile yarn. The Blue Tapestry Artworks subvert this tradition by combining jute with a blue wool yarn and bringing it to the front of the textile. The resulting tapestries see rich ultramarine intersect with the beige of jute. Subtle gradations of colour create a spectrum of different tones. The immateriality of blue meets with earthy, natural shades. {---}

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The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair

2022-06-06 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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L’art plissé red lamp

2021-10-13 | TAGS: Works
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Plissé White edition

2021-10-16 | TAGS: Works
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Folkform + Hjort: L’art plissé

2021-10-16 | TAGS: Works
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L’art plissé

2020-11-10 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Folkform public art installation in Spånga

2020-08-06 | TAGS: Works

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

2020-02-15 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Nationalmuseum, Entrance lobby

2018-10-09 | TAGS: Works

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

2018-10-09 | TAGS: Works

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

2018-10-01 | TAGS: Works

Folkform produced 25 benches for Nationalmuseum and worked closely with the cabinets makers Eriksson & söner, the carpentry workshop in Vrena. {---}

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From the Hands of

2018-02-12 | TAGS: Works

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 {---}

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Folkform at Rönnells

2016-01-31 | TAGS: Works

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

2016-02-15 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Light weight Concrete Planter

2015-02-06 | TAGS: Works

Each is made from blocks of Ytong aerated concrete, a lightweight material with a matte surface that disguises a highly porous inner structure. {---}

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Skyline Wall

2015-06-22 | TAGS: Works

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. {---}

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Black and White Fractional Numbers

2013-09-01 | TAGS: Works

The patterns were created during a workshop with the children at the school.
Vansta 2013 {---}

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Suburban Skyline

2014-09-18 | TAGS: Works

The Skyline lamp series is designed by Folkform. The lamp is inspired by the architecture of different suburban districts of Stockholm. {---}

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Limnhamn – The foundry of Candle Collage

2013-09-02 | TAGS: Works

For the candle collage collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south coast of Sweden. {---}

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Gillberga – The stone quarry

2014-09-16 | TAGS: Works

The latest stop on Folkform’s journey through the Swedish manufacturing industry has been {---}

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The recovered Masonite from 1929

2013-10-10 | TAGS: Works

The cabinets are made from original recovered Masonite from 1929, in combination with the last {---}

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7 x 4m Composition in Fabric and Metals

2013-10-08 | TAGS: Works

For this unique textile Folkform collaborated with the material scientists at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm. {---}

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The Hagströmer Libary

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

An old book is not just literature but often a hand crafted artefact in itself.
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Tärnsjö- The leather tannery

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

This road trip went to the Tärnsjö leather Tannery established in 1857. {---}

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Masonite : Memoriam

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

Masonite cabinets exclusively for Svenskt Tenn. {---}

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Limnhamn – The foundry

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

Folkform is committed to working with local manufacturers. For the Bronze Cabinet collection {---}

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The Making of Masonite

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

Natural flowers have been inserted into the huge masonite presses to embed a permanent organic decoration. {---}

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Mdf and Granite Display Case

2014-11-04 | TAGS: Works

New interpretations of today’s standard materials {---}

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Candleholder, Raw Aluminium

2015-02-17 | TAGS: Works

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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The Monochromes

2023-09-21 | TAGS: Works
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Pleated for Frank

2023-03-02 | TAGS: Works

Folkform’s pleated table lamp has previously been shown in other versions, but never in patterns and fabrics by Josef Frank and Svenskt Tenn. The collection includes fixtures and lamp shades in Josef Frank’s classic patterns Aristidia (1920s), Brazil (1940s) and Poisons (1940s), as well as with monochrome variations in Svenskt Tenn’s own linen fabric. Brazil has one of the largest pattern repeats amongst Josef Frank’s patterns, which gives every lamp its own print composition. {---}

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Production Novellas

2023-08-21 | TAGS: Works

A large part of the production today is manufactured so far from the consumer that there is no connection to the production. That there have historically been direct connections between an industry and the people, local traditions and material assets of the place is easily forgotten. The thesis makes these relationships visible through an artistic exploration conducted through a combination of materials, form,craft, image and text. The starting point in the thesis is the design and documentation of Masonite, which the design duo Folkform worked on for more than a decade. Masonite has become synonymous with an entire range of different types of fibreboard. This investigation takes its starting point in sheets of the Masonite brand, spelled with a capital “M” and a lowercase “e” at the end, a wood fibre material invented by William H. Mason in the United States in the 1920s.

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The Blue Tapestries

2022-10-25 | TAGS: Works

The Blue Tapestry Artworks are presented alongside images by documentary photographer Magnus Laupa charting the manufacturing process. At a time when the heritage of small-scale, local industry is threatened by global mass production, the proximity to the manufacturing processes presented in The Blue Tapestries becomes even more meaningful. {---}

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The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair

2022-06-06 | TAGS: Works

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”. {---}

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L’art plissé red lamp

2021-10-13 | TAGS: Works
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Plissé White edition

2021-10-16 | TAGS: Works
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L´art plissé

2021-03-29 | TAGS: Works

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 public art installation in Spånga

2020-08-06 | TAGS: Works

The Stockholm-based design studio Folkform has completed a permanent installation for the public indoor swimming pool in Spånga, outside of Stockholm. The mural, that runs along the short end of the pool, features a decorative composition crafted from ceramic tiles and old vintage glass. The wall comprises over 1000 individual glass and ceramic pieces and the design is inspired by the town plan of Spånga as seen from above. {---}

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Folkform for Bruno Mathsson International

2020-02-15 | TAGS: Works

The classic stool Anna was initially designed in 1945 by Bruno Mathsson, one of Sweden’s most internationally known designers. {---}

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Revolving Bookcase for Nationalmuseum

2021-04-28 | TAGS: Works

Revolving bookcase are for sale through Folkform, limited edition and studio produced. {---}

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Revolving Bookcase for Nationalmuseum

2021-04-28 | TAGS: Works

Revolving bookcase are for sale through Folkform, limited edition and studio produced. {---}

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Patchwork bench

2018-10-01 | TAGS: Works

Folkform worked with the master upholsterer Sara Lindqvist to develop the different upholstery methods, ranging from the nineteenth century to minimalist styles from the beginning of the twentieth century. {---}

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Libreria at Örsjö Belysning

2018-02-12 | TAGS: Works

Libreria lamp is now in production by Örsjö Belysning.
Folkform have worked with objects closely related to books and literature for some time now, one example beeing the revolving bookcases for Svenskt tenn. The new Folkform floor and table lamp is titled the Libreria lamp since it was first designed for an exhibition in an old bookbinders workshop in Milan. {---}

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Revolving Bookcases

2016-02-15 | TAGS: Works

A new series of revolving bookcases and archivers designed by Folkform were launched during Stockholm design week. The exhibition was hosted at Rönnells antique booksellers. {---}

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Reading By Carl Johan De Geer

2016-01-31 | TAGS: Works

During the opening night, artist and author Carl Johan De Geer was reading from a book in the revolving bookcase. Carl Johan is an example to us , we are inspired by his artistry and we admire his writing. We wanted the bookcase to provide a home for his texts and invited him to read, said Folkform

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Twelve Arches

2015-02-06 | TAGS: Works

The arches very from tall to big, rounded to flat, narrow to wide. In the shadow of each arch one of the participating designers has been invited… {---}

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Skyline Bar Light by Folkform

2015-06-22 | TAGS: Works

The new Skyline bar pendant light can be used as a solitaire light or in arrangements in groups. The sculptural light is designed for public areas and interiors. {---}

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Black and White Fractional Numbers

2013-09-01 | TAGS: Works

Commission for the National Public Art Council.
Vansta, 2013
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Suburban Skyline, table and floor

2014-09-18 | TAGS: Works

In collaboration with the lamp factory in Örsjö, Folkform examine the opportunities of the metallic colour palette, from highly polished brass to oxidised copper. {---}

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Candle Collage, brass

2013-09-02 | TAGS: Works

For the candle collage simple tea light candles are placed side by side with pillar candles to create a landscape of candle typologies. {---}

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Study of Stones

2014-02-04 | TAGS: Works

The result is a series of candle- sticks made in limestone and hand-finished by stone mason Björn Johansson at Gillberga. {---}

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Masonite : Memoriam

2013-10-10 | TAGS: Works

Furniture line and exhibition of Masonite cabinets designed exclusively for Svenskt Tenn by the Folkform design duo. {---}

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7 x 4m Composition in Fabric and Metals

2013-10-08 | TAGS: Works

Art Installation at the Royal Institute of Technology.
Commission 2013
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Bookends

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

The new Folkform bookends are the first objects in the new collection based on the research process that began in the Hagströmer library in Stockholm. {---}

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Patchwork Leather Bench

2012-02-02 | TAGS: Works

Launch of a new furniture line and exhibition of leather benches exclusively for Skandium. {---}

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Masonite : Memoriam

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

Masonite Chest with 9 drawers. {---}

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Bronze Cabinet

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

For the Bronze Cabinet collection FOLKFORM collaborated with a brass foundry on the south {---}

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The Collectors

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

For this new furniture range Folkform invited collectors to take part in the design process.
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Masonite Chest with 18 Drawers

2014-11-04 | TAGS: Works

The collection Unique Standard, questions our perception of various materials. {---}

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Wall Light in Layers

2012-02-01 | TAGS: Works

The inspiration for the wall light pieces is a series of experimental paintings and prints by Josef Albers called ”Homage to the square” {---}