At last month’s Stockholm Furniture Fair Twelve graduating product design students from Beckmans College of Design presented furniture for a 48 square metre apartment.
The brief: ‘Is a chair always a chair, an apartment always an apartment? Tilt your head for a while and the world will emerge in a different light. Up is down, objects change appearances, the unclear becomes obvious and problems meet their solutions. Furniture for the various rooms and for individual needs. How can we twist the concept of home styling and increase flexibility, personality and sustainability? Welcome to a different home!’
Kitchen Lamp & Hallway Lamp, Petra Arnesson
Petra Arnesson used mostly hemp in her lighting designs for sustainable reasons. Inspiration for lighting in the kitchen came from family meals – a big and a small lamp symbolising a parent and child. The square hall lamp gives hemp a hard and angular shape. Hilda Hellström explores flexible furniture by creating stools that can double as tables and impromptu extra seating.
No. A & No. B, Hilda Hellström
Fredrik Ohlén’s concept for High/Low is that of meetings between people and materials, creating a seating area that doubles as a table surface where people can meet. The chairs are made from Nordic produced birch, which is painted and hard waxed. There is a steel bracket where the backrest meets the seat, so that the chair can be taken apart in two different places.
High/Low & Low, Fredrik Ohlén
Daniela Yevenes Zagal produced the Bombi table and Stompe stool. Her starting point was to design two pieces of furniture that at first glance wouldn’t reveal their function. The table is meant as a writing desk predominantly and the stool to accompany it. The table is vertically adjusting thanks to steel wing nuts and the materials strengthen the piece’s perceived airiness and lightness.’
Bambi & Stampe, Daniela Yevenes Zagal
Alongside the product designers, seven second-year students from Advertising and Graphic Design explored how the designs could be communicated – by film, photography, website and printed material. The students also worked on designing the exhibition stand.
Image credits: All photography by Advertising and Graphic Design 11 except Bambi & Stampe, Daniela Yevenes Zagal, photography by Christofer Yevenes Zagal
