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.

Folkform at Kvadrat during 3 Days of Design
12-14 June 2024
Exploring water’s role in design.
With Tracing Water by Folkform, recycled plastic take on new life as vibrant blue room dividers made from recycled polyester textiles, sparking conversations on reuse, recycling, and the intricate connection between water and textile production.
Address
Pakhus 48
Copenhagen
Opening hours
Wednesday: 9am – 10pm
Thursday– Friday: 9am – 6pm
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An exhibition of Masonite works from Folkform.

Since establishing Folkform in Stockholm in 2005, designers Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell have explored Sweden’s industrial heritage through the creation of objects that sit at the intersection of craftsmanship and industry.

This display is a selection from Folkform’s collected works, made using the last of the original hardboards manufactured at a Masonite factory in Rundvik in the north of Sweden. Also featured is The Production Novellas, a publication by Folkform that offers an artistic investigation of material and place, revealing the studio’s in-depth research into material cultures.

Told through the studio’s 15-year collaboration with the now-closed Masonite factory, The Museum of Masonite examines how design can re-connect consumers with industry, craft and local traditions.

The Folkform Museum of Masonite is hosting book readings with a glass of wine on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon at 4pm. C14:42

Welcome!
Stockholm Furniture fair
6th -10th February
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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

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Art and design duo Folkform challenge long-held traditions of the fine art of pleating, presenting an innovative lighting collection that brings craftsmanship into contemporary times.
Welcome to Svenskt Tenn!
Strandvägen 5
Feb 6 – April 2 2023

Opening hours viewing
Mon-Fri 10am – 6pm
Sat 10am – 5pm
Sun 11am – 4pm

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
Konst/ig Books
at https://konstigbooks.com/design-crafts/anna-lovisa-holmquist-produktionsnoveller.html
or email us
info@folkform.se.

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The Gallery Edition
Welcome to The Exhibition with The Blue Tapestries with Ldp and Dahl Agenturer.
Stofair C14:11

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

Svenskt Tenn
Strandvägen 5
Stockholm

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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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FOLKFORM + HJORT
Welcome to Folkform Open Atelier during Stockholm Creative Edition 23-29 September.
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. Alongside its open studio, Folkform will also present a new Plissé White Edition in collaboration with the Swedish lighting brand Örsjö.

Exhibition opening
Wednesday 22 September 18.00-21.00!
Please rsvp openatelier@folkform.se
Welcome!

Opening hours
Weekdays 11-18
Weekend 12-16

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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We are honoured that the Red Plissé Lamp is being nominated for the Swedish Design Award by Rum in the category Furniture of the year 2021!

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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FOLKFORM + HJORT: L’ART PLISSÉ
Bar Brillo 29 October-24 January 2021
Folkform and artist Roland Hjort interpret traditional pleating techniques in a joint exhibition
Welcome!

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The Dezeen award jury has long-listed 318 projects from 4300 international applicants! We are happy and honoured! Thank you again Dezeen!

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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“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

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 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!

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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

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. {–––}

Folkform at Bodafors
15 June – 9 September 2018
Open hours: 11-17
Address: Magasinsgatan 8, Bodafors

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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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 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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ÖRSJÖ
Salone Del Mobile
Euroluce
04-09 April 2017.
Pav 13 E01
Welcome!

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Folkform summer exhibition
18 June – 21 August 2016
Address: Gallery Nivå 125
Finnsbovägen 277
Båstad

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. {–––}

From today it is at last official that the revolving bookcase will be on display at Svenskt Tenn and part of their collection. Welcome!
Exhibition “Local Design”
16 September – 16 November 2016
Address: Strandvägen 5
Stockholm
www.svenskttenn.se

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!

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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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.

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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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14th -30th September 2013

2 North Terrace
Alexander Square
London SW3 2BA
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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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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.

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

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. {–––}

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

The exhibition will include the new work developed exclusively for the Glassfactory.
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The hand-molded Kubi candle holder is inspired by ancient monuments and obelisks, the stone pillars that taper at the top, with square sides, and a prominent plinth. {–––}

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

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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Green and Red Masonite Cabinet with two doors.
Dimension: 700 x 1500 mm
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Art Installation at the Royal Institute of Technology.
Commission 2013
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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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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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We are delighted to announce that the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg has now acquired the Masonite cabinet with 18 drawers for their permanent collection. The cabinet is now on display in the permanent exhibition Design Stories.

12 Oct– 08 Dec 2024
This exhibition is a selection from Folkform’s collected works, made using the last of the original hardboards manufactured at the Masonite factory in Rundvik in the north of Sweden.

Welcome!

Landskrona konsthall
Slottsgatan 5
Landskrona, Sweden

The Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg opened its new permanent design exhibition entitled Design Stories. A journey of discovery in design from the end of the 19th century until today with over 500 objects from the museum’s collection. Happy and grateful that the book Produktionsoveller has been acquired by the museum together with Folkform’s Masonite cabinet with 18 drawers. The book, which is also co-founder Anna Holmquists thesis, is hiding in one of the drawers in the cupboard forever. Welcome to visit the exhibition, which opens today, November 9, to the public. Thank you once again Röhsska museum.

Folkform exhibit at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the invention of Masonite in Laurel in 1924, Improving Nature: Engineered Wood in Art & Design features historical and contemporary works created with wood technology. Masonite improves upon nature in that it is less likely than wood to crack and warp, and artists have taken advantage of those characteristics in using the material to produce artwork and furniture. Designers and artists have also used technologies like laminating and steam bending to produce shapes and forms that nature cannot. The exhibition is part of an ongoing series that uses the strengths of the Museum’s collection and Laurel’s history to make connections to contemporary art. Improving Nature: Engineered Wood in Art & Design features artwork from three centuries that show what can be achieved when nature and science come together.
Open May 28 – August 4, 2024
Welcome!

Produced in collaboration with Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis De Poortere.
The Monochromes Collection is a series of Wilton rugs in which the backside has been flipped to become the front.

The jute backing has been retained, but now moves front and centre, where its construction is highlighted by the addition of brilliantly coloured wool weft threads. As the wool weft weves its path trough the jute warp, colour is allowed to build up or fall away as dependent on the density of the weave – different shades of the same colour emerge through the treatment of a single thread.

The collection has been created in 12 colours and 8 sizes.

For more information please contact Louis De Poortere or Dahl Agenturer
www.louisedepoortere.be
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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.

During Stockholm Design week Folkform was invited by Nordiska Kompaniet to make a unique Folkform Window display of Masonite works and pleated lights in connection to the exhibition NK exhibition “Made in Sweden” an exhibition focusing on local production.

Nordiska Kompaniet
Hamngatan 18-20
Stockholm

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

Welcome to the Swedish Pavilion at the London Design Fair. We are so excited to be one of three handpicked design studios to exhibit at the Swedish Pavilion stand 1C24 at the Truman Brewery. The exhibition was curated by Stamuli in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in London. Welcome to visit us and our friends Stamuli and Swedish Ninja. We also pre-launch the Pink Monochromes Carpet Collection in collaboration with Louis de poortere and Dahl agenturer.

21th – 24th September
at the Truman Brewery
stand 1C24.⁠

A permanent installation, a recycling room at Fabriksparken in Sollentuna, outside of Stockholm.
The Green Room is an interpretation of the environmental room in Fabriksparken, Sollentuna. The artwork is a green composition where tiles and the green painted walls together create a collage. The lighting with integrated spotlights and the daylight coming in through the window further enhances all the green shades of the room.

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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.

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. {–––}

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!

The Last of the Hardboards
March 18 – April 29 2023
Konstakademien
Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm

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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

We are so happy that the l’art Plissé Lamp series by Folkform has been awarded the Residence Magazine Form Award 2022 in the category lighting of the year.
Motivation: A sophisticated jewel of light that brings the somewhat neglected handcraft of pleating to the fore in a contemporary setting.
Thank you!

Folkforms lamp Skyline was acquired for the permanent design collections by the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Folkform + Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair is exhibited at Sven-Harrys Art Museum in Stockholm from today. 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”. The new Folkform+Åke Axelsson Masonite Chair was designed as a unique piece for the exhibition Talking to Åke. The exhibition at Sven Harrys Art Museum is running 5th of February to the 27th of March!
WELCOME!

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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!

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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!

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. {–––}

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.

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.

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The Stockholm-based design studio Folkform has completed a permanent installation for the public indoor swimming pool in Spånga, outside of Stockholm.

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

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 {–––}

Folkform has been longlisted for the Dezeen Designer of the Year Award 2019!
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Örsjö Exhibition Stand
F15 Pavilion 13
Fiera Milano Strada
9-14 April 2019
Welcome!

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

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.

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. {–––}

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)

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

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 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!

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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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/

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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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

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

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. {–––}

– 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

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 {–––}

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

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. {–––}

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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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. {–––}

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

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. {–––}

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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This candleholder is available in casted aluminum, black or white. In this design work, Folkform explore the effect of downscaling the obelisk shape for a smaller object. Kubi brings sculpturalism to the window sill. {–––}

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

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

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. {–––}

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

The textile consists of over 600 pieces of metals and fabrics that are sawn by hand.
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The bookends is manufactured by Skultuna
which a Swedish producer of fine metal objects.
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The Leather benches are made from different leather upholstery methods, combined in the same bench. {–––}

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

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

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