Furniture of the year!

On the very eve before the opening of the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Swedese was awarded with the prestigious “ELLE Interior Design Prize,” for the sofa Continental, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

On the very eve before the opening of the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Swedese was awarded with the prestigious "ELLE Interior Design Prize," for the sofa Continental, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune. The motivation stated: "A modern and cool sofa which elegantly combines soft cushions with shiny steel tubing." ELLE Interior's design prize is awarded in 13 categories to the very best within Swedish design over the past year. The selection was made by ELLE Interior's editorial office and "the winners maintain the very highest level of design, both nationally and internationally."

And as if that was not enough: the prize is also ELLE Interior's nomination to the international ELLE Deco International Design Awards, which are awarded annually in April at the Milan Furniture Fair. The editorial offices of the 28 sister magazines in the ELLE Deco network vote for the world winners.

And sssh! The Continental sofa now has a baby sister, just in time for the fair, which is an easy chair with the same name. This too, is modern and cool!

Read more about Continental here.

Putting a spin on life

The magazine Sköna Hem's prestigious prize Furniture of the year 2011 goes to Swedese's stool Spin.
The Furniture of the Year 2011 is one of the most prestigious prizes in Sweden. This year the jury was composed of industrial designer Björn Dahlström, Nationalmuseum's curator Cilla Robach, interior designer Shideh Shaygan and Sköna Hem's editor Dan Gordan.
The motivation was as follows: "It is light, stackable and has its own particular expression of a fascinating twirl shape on the veneer. Staffan Holm's innovative Spin opens up a conversation between contemporary design, production methods and the magic of the old masters. And puts a spin on life."

Form+1 Award 2011

The magazine Form handed out the Form+1 Award for the best new product at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. It went to Thomas Bernstrand for his bookshelf Ivy for Swedese.
This year the jury for the Form+1 Award was the German design duo Osko + Deichman, with the following motivation for the prize: "Ivy is a smart and surprising product. The fact that it can lean is not only visually playful, but also a functional bonus. It is the user who decides what sort of expression the shelf has. Ivy can be put together straight, conventionally, or totally crazily".

ELLE Interior Design Prize – The designer of the year

ELLE Interior gave out their Design Prize 2011 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. "The designer of the year" actually became no less than three, Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. Claesson Koivisto Rune were awarded the prize for their innovative, diverse and unique talents. They have designed a good deal of furniture for Swedese, including the table Brasilia, the new sofa Continental, the sofas Berliner and Boxplay, the mirror Mira and the tea-trolley Teatime.

Swedish Elle Interior Design Award - Best Furniture of the Year

The Libri shelf, designed by Michaël Bihain for Swedese, was on Febr. 3rd 2009 awarded the prize for the Best Furniture of the Year by Swedush magazine Elle Interior.. 

The motivation of the Elle jury: "Enkel och sjävlklar - en hylla som är sig själv nog."

The Best Furniture of the year - Libri - goes on to the competition among all national Elle Decoration magazines for the international Edida award. The winner will be announced at the time of the Salone del Mobiel in Milan in April 2009..

Forum AID +1 Award

At the Stockholm Furniture Fair Swedese was awarded the Prize for Best New Product 2008!

Libri shelf designed by Michael Bihain has been awarded the Prize for Best New Product 2008 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. The sole judge was lthe Award winner of last year, designer Damien Williamson.

It was for the seventh year in a row the +1 Award was offered by the Swedish magazine Forum AID.

On the photo attached from the Award ceremony you can see from the left: designer Damien Williamson, Swedese MD Peter Jiseborn and Editor-in-chief of Forum AID Daniel Golling.

100% Design Blueprint Best Interior Product Award 2007

The Glove chair by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby has been voted Best Interior Product at the 100% Design fair in London.

The jury consisted of Sarah Gaventa director of Cabe Space, Martino Gamper, designer, Gareth Williams, curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A, David Nicholls, from the Daily Telegraph, Chrystima Schmidt, Marketing Director and co-founder of Skandium and Tim Ambrahams, Acting Editor of Blueprint.

Blueprint Award for Best Product at 100% Design 2006

The LOG Collection by Naoto Fukasawa has been voted Best Product at 100% Design in London by a panel of judges which consisted of architects and designers including Deyan Sudjic, new director of the Design Museum. 

The Forsnäs Prize 2003

The Forsnäs-Fonden Foundation has awarded The Forsnäs Prize 2003 to Swedese Möbler AB for the stool Twister designed by Yuriko Takahashi.

The Jurys motivation: The Twister stool is awarded the Forsnäs Prize for its independent design language, which the Jury finds both functional, sensual and humane. In group formation Twister completes the room, and creates playful vawes of varmth, tempting to lay down and listen to.

Interior Innovation Award Cologne 2003

The Lamino chair, designed by Yngve Ekström in 1956, received on the opening day of the I.M.M. Cologne 2003 a design award!

Organized by the German Design Council and the Koelnmesse, the Interior Innovation Award aims to reward the product innovations of the exhibitors. The award consists of five assesment categories.

The Classic Innovation, which was awarded to the Lamino chair, by Yngve Ekström and Swedese, is open to classics whose innovative concept is valid to this day!

Forum +1 Diploma

The +1 Diploma 2002 goes to Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune for the Brasili coffee table by Swedese. The architectual review Forum awards the Best Item during the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Exclusive jury was Björn Dahlström.

The qualities of the Brasilia lie is its sculptural design, its harmonious volume and its game between the open and the closed" writes Björn Dahlström in the Forum article. 

Excellent Swedish Design

Over the years, the association Svensk Form has awarded Swedese with the Diploma "Excellent Swedish Design" for a number of products.

Below please find the furniture models in our present collection which have been awarded:

Easy chair and sofas BERLINER - awarded in 1999.
Designed by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.

Easy chair KORNETT - awarded in 1991.
Designed by Lasse Pettersson & Lennart Notman.

Guldstickan Marketing Award 2003

The diploma was awarded at the Jonkoping Gala Night, November 22, 2003. The organizers as well as the jury were the Marketing association in Jonkoping (MiJ), the Marketing association in Finnveden (MiF) and the daily newspaper Jonkopingsposten.

The criteria of evaluation for this diploma are:

"Company or organization in the Jonkoping region which has strengthened its market position and improved its financial results thanks to active marketing efforts".