N O R T H modern and ME

Clever and new type of stand with shoebox

I spent the day at Copenhagen´s North Modern Fair in August and since I am the laziest blogger alive here is my belated recollection from my walks in this beautiful space for exhibiting called Bella Center, a name that sounds like a Beauty Parlor (yes I know what Bella means in Italian...)  but is really THE perfect place to host fairs...like North Modern.

Love these new editions of Wegner´s masterpieces

Funny -- you say --well this is not new! Correct!! I just love when good design is remade and reused and made in new updated versions. Good design is always good design.

Wegner magic from PP

Detaling that makes you marvel

Just seeing the details of the wood meeting the seams and the meticulous work that has been done. LOVE IT!

The Well proven stool has a brother...or sister - IT´s a CHAIR

So sorry for this NOT such a good picture but....I really go for this stone looking but being a foam-ish created chair from Pleasewaittobeseated

Wallbox from Please wait to be seated

Storage boxes in a way I have not seen and like the individual feel they create.

Ferm Living plant tables

Since plants are growing increasingly important there is no wonder that we crave furniture to keep them in, hence the revival of the plant table from Ferm living

Marvel at more and more Marble in all areas in interiors

Tonone lamps in all versions I like

Capello light 

Inspired by the classic Arcolamp by Castiglioni Cappello saw the light of creation from design work from Molodesign

Molodesign have created the delicate dancing light Capello

H A N G on to ERIK NYSTRÖM

All photos by Martin Skog

 

Earlier this year I told how impressed I was with Hang On here on the BLOG from the second of Feb after I saw it at the Furniture Fair in Stockholm.  

I knew that this unique product was going to make it. 
I told designer Erik Nyström that I really liked Hang On that I would buy it, use it  and really hoped it would come into production. 

I invited a few different Swedish companies that I thought was the right ones to see Hang on and meet Erik, BUT instead he found interest and production elsewhere with smarter more design focused entrepreneurs. 

IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY when clever new designers make it with new and unique interpretations of design and art all in one.

The only problem with Hang On is that you will never really understand it until you see it.
So until you have the pleasure of seeing it IRL here are the words of the designer himself describing Hang on : 

With this hanger, I want to play with the ideas and images we associate with different objects. In a world where our experience of designed products mainly builds upon two-
dimensional images, I want to encourage the interaction with these objects in the physical, three-dimensional space.

When we interact with an object and view it from different angles, new functions and qualities emerge; we might discover a hidden depth that shatters our preconceptions of the object.

This hanger is supposed to provide the observer some food for thought. I want to show you the benefits of meeting an object in all three dimensions.

Hang On is made out of 15 x 15 mm quadrat steel pipe which is cut and welded, then it is treated with a powder coating. This furniture comes with a set of holes on the backside for easy mount on the wall.

HUSRÄDDARNA.3.tv3

Photo by Johnny Wohlin

H U S R Ä D D A R N A.3.tv3

M Å N D A G E N  21  S E P T E M B E R 

21.00 hemma hos DIG 

eller när du vill på www.tv3play.se 

 21st of September at 21.00 is the start of the new season. 

La vie en rose my way

Miss P in her spot before the blooming commences.

A toast to the first rose bloom is in place.

Caged beauty.

Roses ARE red

Where I live in Southern Sweden it feels like fall is around the corner, but for many summer is in full swing still.  

Last summer I tried to use different types of techniques to help my rose expand but not take over the front terrace and looked for many type of ready made products to let the rose grow with support but show off well. 

For me the best result and the look I really go for was the cheapest solution. 

A reinforcement mesh bent into place and attached well gave the rose bush all the support it needed and provided the perfect look to fit the Stable.

Next time instead of going out to get something that will not fit perfectly and cost more than it needs to, If you have roses like me that grow out of proportion in that wonderful way we all love or any other plant that needs some guidance, just use reinforcement mesh. 

Used otherwise for cement solutions of all kinds they are already used as well as noticeboards just like we have in our workshop at Husräddarna, Tv3 Sweden and which new season starts the 21st of Sept at 21.00 

See you soon

Jimmy

Clip Notice board made from reinforcement mesh.

B E E L A M P bilampan

Aug is harvest time for straw

Beelamp exhibited by Codesign at Formex15 by Sanna Gebeyehu 
Photo by August Eriksson

Bilampan in Swedish - Beelamp in English

Beelamp is handmade from straw and tarred hemp rope.

B E E L A M P    bilampan

Beelamp is created in the same ancient technique that has been used for making beehives using straw (straw is halm in Swedish) tied together with rope. We have used a tarred hemp rope for Beelamp. Straw is a type of rye that has been used for many objects through history. From my design idea of using the artisanal handicraft of straw technique to make an electrical lamp with a LED bulb was made real by Eva Bryntesson at Halmens Hus , Bengtsfors, Sweden - that tells the story about the usage of straw in different cultures and throughout the history and teaches techniques and holds courses and exhibitions.

I´m so proud that we can present a tradition preserving forward moving product from straw technique that is useful in this organic and amazingly beautiful historic material that still exists today.

Beelamp has just been presented by Codesign and Sanna Gebeyehu at the  biannual Formex Fair in Stockholm. So thankful to see my Beelamp project become reality after many years of preparations. 


/Jimmy

Straw hats is what was made mostly 100 years ago from straw. Until recently mostly christmas deco and now finally Beelamp is taking the historic use of straw to new and future possibilities.

SDF in skh

Photo by Lina Eidenberg Adamo

There are naturally some that would understand both the abbrivations in the headline. 

For those of you who do not

I can tell you that there is an article in Sweden´s largest interior magazine in the august issue with the abbriviation skh that stands for Sköna Hem  a interview with SDF which stands for Sarah Dawn Finer 

the Swedish singer/actor/stage personality with whom I had the pleasure of redesigning her home. She lets us in on her favorite spots and also shows parts of her Stockholm apartment.

We made wallpaper from a photo by Photographer Per Magnus Persson with the help of Photowall. 

Black and white pillows by Atelje Alt.

Bespoke black wall shelf made from reuse of a antique door done by Lövsjö Loghouse   

Black adjustable wall lights by ByRydéns.

S U M M E R palette JS HEM

Whites to beige to earthy tones Qail eggs being all of that along with staines of black. 

As August with summer vacation for most begins tomorrow the summer palette is a backdrop for all of the beauty this time of year presents in color and form in nature. The flora has all the color so the summer palette for the indoor&outdoor interiors does not need it.  The case/pouch/pocket for kitchen utensils to bring on the picnic or to hang on the wall is from Dutch company www.sukha-amsterdam.nl and the bathtub that looks like the most comfortable easy chair from the same creative country at www.houseofthol.nl has a new form needed by all of us. The wooden skelleton being the construction and the color as well as the charm. The shape being the key. Roundness needed in this time of straight line effectivity.  The qail egg has it all. The roundness. The fragility and more expressions of whites, beige to earthy tones and with staines of black. Natures wonder.

Brown leather with stone colors at the beach conected to worn wooden surfaces.

Stones on the beach with the same tones as the quail egg + grey. The stone material being important as well. Flint stone also bringing the grey tones that fit so well with the beige and brown and that complement the natural tone that leather can get. The Peña Flint house being the best example of using the stone palette.

The Les Arcs chair seen above that Madame Perriand designed is a true favorite. She gave her life accomplishments to Le Corbusier - Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - and his achivements and is now getting more recognition for her own - just as many times before behind a successful man between 1903-1999 was a creative woman.