Stockholm Design Week 2023: ten furniture designs debuting in the Swedish capital

Pleated for Frank collection by Folkform x Svenskt Tenn - Photo by Svenskt Tenn.

Convivial Y-shaped urban benches, shifting hammocks/sofas, and 3D-printed high-end circular seats. Archipanic explored Stockholm Design Week 2023. Check what we liked the most!

Artist and architect of light Nanda Vigo passed away aged 83

Nanda Vigo - Courtesy of Archivio Nanda Vigo

Master of light, transparency and immateriality, Nanda Vigo was one of the most visionary postwar Italian architects and artists. Her creative journey began as a child fascinated by Giuseppe Terragni’s architecture and Flash Gordon comics. During her carrier she collaborated with some of the most influential avant-garde movements and creative minds such as the Zero Group, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Gio Ponti.

8 French craftswomen raising the design bar at Maison&Objet

Atelier Terres D'Angely @ the SO CRAFT exhibition in Paris - Photo by ©AETHION, courtesy of Maison & Objet.

Upcycled luminous creatures, delicately balanced wooden compositions and blown glass furniture with an architectural imprint… French craftswomen shine in Paris!

Pure Talent 2020: 8 innovative furnitures by young designers on show at IMM Cologne

FOLD table lamp by Thalea Schmalenberg and Kasper Friis Egelund

Pure Talent 2020: a multifunctional worktable and a yo-yo lamp that dims as the time goes by but also a carpet turning into a basket by pulling a rope and more… 8 innovative furnitures tuning with millennials lifestyle.

2019 Best Design: sinking Venetian furniture, rippling benches and tech-crafted chairs

Acqua Alta series by Virgil Abloh @ DYSFUNCTIONAL exhibtion - Image by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

2019 Best Design. A chair made from 100 % recycled plastic from fishing nets in the Arctic, a floor-to-ceiling luminous belt and violently psychedelic benches are among our favourite furniture designs of the year.

Salone del Mobile 2019: the survival guide to explore Milan furniture fair like a Pro

Salone del Mobile 2018 - Photo by Giorgio Saporiti, courtesy of Salone delMobile.Milano

Salone del Mobile 2019, the gargantuan furniture fair of the world’s most influential design event is the one the started it all. On show truly top-notch products ranging from lighting design to furniture for the workspace of tomorrow and sustainable food-related innovations by the next generation of designers.

Nordic rounded shapes reign in Northern’s second design collection

Nordic Rounded shapes reing in Northern's new design collection. Oblong sofa by Mario Tsai - Photo by Chris Tonnesen, courtesy of Northern,

Oblong sofas, oval mirrors and spherical pendant lamps. Nordic rounded shapes bridge Scandinavian heritage and international contemporary design in Northern’s second furniture and home accessories collection.

Design Week Mexico 2018: 7 Mexican studios to watch at INÉDITO

7 Mexican studios @ INEDITO exhibition at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City - Courtesy of Design Week Mexico

The hope and vulnerability in the wake of the earthquake, Mexican women’s charisma and millennial’s lifestyle but also planets and satellites’ movements and reflections inspired these 7 Mexican studios at the INÉDITO exhibition.

Alejandro Aravena’s O lighting design collection grants safe darkness respecting the nocturnal habits of plants and animals living in parks

Light+Building 2018 - "O" by ELEMENTAL for Artemide - Photo: courtesy of Artemide.

Artemide’s O lighting design collection by studio ELEMENTAL aims to reconcile the needs of the natural and the urban environment. Darkness and disappearance will be the contribution of “O” to nature and public spaces.