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NUMBER 1 2011 | PRICE 69 KRONOR

INTERIOR DESIGN | DESIGN | ARCHITECTURE

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NEGRA The award-winning black house in Argentina

FURNITURE FAIR 2011: Sneak peek at all the news Meet Israeli designer Arik Levy & Swedish Katrin Grelling

What is it? We sort out the concepts.

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The light installation Dimension, created by designer Alexander Lervik, is shown in the new Ljusbaren at the furniture fair.

Bar with a unique light artwork by Alexander Lervik, and a new expanded section for kitchen and bath is inaugurated. Here Disajn offers a selection of what will be shown at the furniture fair. Text Willeam Vendel.

SHORTLY the sixtieth edition of Stockholm Furniture Fair opens, taking place on 8–12 February. Concurrently, Nordic Light Fair is also underway, held every other year. There, visitors will be greeted by a colorful sea of light in the new Ljusbaren. It is the designer and light artist Alexander Lervik who has created a bar environment with a focus on lighting. Here his spectacular high-tech light sculpture Dimension is shown, consisting of 1,728 illuminated heads, shimmering in different colors. Each unit is separately controlled with LED light, and the cube of heads forms a kind of three-dimensional display screen. The technology is brand new, produced by Stockholm Lighting Company. The 120-square-meter area has been located in the A-hall. In the bar, several hundred black-lacquered pendant lamps from various exhibitors will hang and form walls.

Another novelty is that the fair will now also include an expanded kitchen and bath section every other year. An initiative undertaken by the fair management in consultation with TMF, Trä- och Möbelföretagen in Sweden.

— Developments in kitchen and bath are moving toward an ever-greater design awareness, and demand and supply of designer bathroom products are steadily increasing. The kitchen area is now supplemented with bathroom furniture. Something our new expanded hall has made possible, says Cecilia Nyberg, project manager for Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair.

This year's guest of honour is the multifaceted Israeli designer Arik Levy, who has made a name for himself as the emotional and poetic designer. He is also a photographer, artist and filmmaker, and has created high-tech clothing together with his colleague Pippo Lionni. The two run the agency L-design and work jointly on all major design projects.

— We want to continue focusing on cross-boundary work between different design genres, something we started last year with Paul Smith. This time we want to explore the borderland between design and art. Arik Levy is one of contemporary design's most exciting and innovative designers, and we are attracted by his way of moving freely between different disciplines, between mass production and unique objects, between simplicity and experimentation, says Cecilia Nyberg.

The personal meeting will be addressed under the heading Hello – Anatomy of Meetings. Here, topics such as open-plan offices, meeting spaces, the technological revolution, new forms of work and meeting structures will be debated. The concept has been developed by Sanna Gebeyehu, who is also leading the project during the fair.

— We have chosen to ask ourselves fundamental questions about the meeting. Why do we have meetings? What are they supposed to achieve? How are they carried out? With these questions we want to find the anatomy of the meeting and its physical and psychological building blocks, says Sanna Gebeyehu.

The exhibition architecture itself is created by the design agency Uglycute.

— Since Hello is about the meeting of the future, we thought it was interesting to look at history. Several archetypal pieces of furniture touch upon meetings; the lectern, the round table, the arcade passage. They are the exhibition's platform and give visitors flashbacks. The meeting itself hasn't changed much — even if new technologies have emerged, says Jonas Nobel, Uglycute.

The design of the Design Bar and the VIP lounge does not follow a linear narrative this year, but can instead be regarded as hybrids that are difficult to define. The Design Bar is this time created by the German design-

the exhibition in Greenhouse.

The sofa combination Beddo, inspired by Japanese austerity, designed by Christina Liljenberg Halström, is shown at

Designer and lighting expert Alexander Lervik.

furniture fair

English translation of the original article. Text read from the scanned original; small transcription errors may occur.