Swedese Milanese

May 5, 2010

Salone del Mobile in Milan, 14–19 April 2010.

From Behind The Curtains

April 20, 2010

Our new image catalogue is out!

Salone del Mobile in Milan, 14-19 April 2010.

March 15, 2010

Welcome to Swedese at the Salone del Mobile, hall 8, stand D33!

Swedese exhibits its news and furniture designed by Yngve Ekström, Monica Förster, Michael Young, Marina Bautier, Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Roger Persson, Bror Boije, Michaël Bihain, 
Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Naoto Fukasawa, Thomas Bernstrand and Christine Schwarzer.

Welcome to visit the Swedese stand D33, in Hall 8 at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 14-19, 2010.

Open daily 9.30 - 18.30.

Welcome!

Swedese Shop+Showroom, February 9, 2010

February 16, 2010

A toast for the clearblue sky in our ‘new’ showroom. And yes... everyone was there. See for yourself!

Stockholm Furniture Fair, February 9–13 2010

February 16, 2010

News and classics, designers and journalists, photographers and buyers. Not only the birds twittered in the Swedese stand. Listen for yourself!

Swedese Shop+Showroom 2010

February 8, 2010

Blue as sea, blue as sky – blue as in the colour of hope. Come and have a look at our two- and three-dimensional exhibition. Shows brand new, modern and classic furniture in our Showroom, where the sky is blue as a high-pressure day.

Stockholm Furniture Fair, 9-13 February 2010

January 22, 2010

Welcome to Swedese at the Stockhom Furniture Fair, stand A20:30! And, to the Swedese shop+showroom at Narvavägen 10, Östermalm!

Swedese exhibits its news and furniture designed by Yngve Ekström, Monica Förster, Michael Young, Marina Bautier, Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Roger Persson, Bror Boije, Michaël Bihain, 
Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Naoto Fukasawa, Thomas Bernstrand and Christine Schwarzer.

Welcome to visit our stand A20:30 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, 9-13 February 2010.

Open Tuesday - Saturday 9-18, 

The Swedese shop+showroom at Narvavägen 10, Östermalm, also stays open during the fair period.

Opening hours:
Tuesday 11-18,
Wed 11-18, cocktail 18-20
Thur 11-18, cocktail 18-20
Fri 11-18
Sat 10-15

Welcome!

Swedish Style in Tokyo 2009, 10 year anniversary

October 20, 2009

Welcome to Swedese at the exhibition Swedish Love Stories - Swedish Interior Design, at Omotesando Hills in Tokyo, Oct. 29th - Nov. 3th 2009.

Swedese exhibit news and furniture designed by Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Monica Förster, Gam Fratesi, Michael Young,
Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Naoto Fukasawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Koncept and Yngve Ekström.

Welcome to visit Swedese at the Swedish Love Stories exhibition, located at the event space - "Space O", Mori Building, Omotesando Hills in Tokyo, Oct. 29th. - Nov. 3rd 2009.
Swedish Love Stories is a part of the Swedish Style in Tokyo events, celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year.

The opening of the exhibition is on October 29th, 18-20.

Neue Räume 2009

October 20, 2009

Welcome to Swedese at the Neue Räume exhibition, ABB Event Halle 550 in Zürich-Oerlikon, Switzerland, Oct. 24th - Nov. 1st 2009.

Swedese exhibits furniture designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune, 
Monica Förster, Roger Persson, Michaël Bihain, Arik Levy, Michael Young, Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Eva & Peter Moritz, Thomas Bernstarnd,
Christine Schwarzer and Yngve Ekström.

Welcome to visit us in our stand at the Neue Räume in Zürich-Oerlikon.

Open daily 12 - 21
Saturday and the first Sunday 10 - 21
The final Sunday 10 - 18

Hem 2009

September 29, 2009

Thank you for visiting to Swedese at Hem 2009, the interior design fair, stand B03:30, at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, Sweden, October 1-4, 2009.

Swedese exhibtited a selection of news and furniture designed by
Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Monica Förster,
Michaël Bihain, Michael Young, Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Yuriko Takahashi, Helena Bodin, Johanna Egnell and our classic Lamino armchair designed in 1956 by the founder of Swedese Yngve Ekström.

More news from Swedese was exhibited at "Årets Nyhet" on the News square in the stand B10:02, where the visitors could vote for their favourite this year. Swedese contributed to this with the Boxplay sofa, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune and the coat stand Hanahana, designed by Setsu & Shinobu Ito.

InI "Köksliv" (Kitchen life) a big and vibrant inspriational exhibition right in the middle of Hall B, stand B08:31 designed by Synnöve Mork, you could also find from Swedese both the Libri shelf by Michaël Bihain and the Heaven step ladder by Thomas Bernstrand.

This is how it looked in the Swedese stand.

Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, 22-27 April 2009

April 7, 2009

Thank you for visiting Swedese at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, hall 8, stand D33!

Swedese exhibited its news and furniture designed by Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Bror Boije, Monica Förster, Roger Persson,
Michaël Bihain, Gam Fratesi, Barber Osgerby, Arik Levy, Michael Young, Katrin Olina Petursdottir, Thomas Bernstrand and Christine Schwarzer.

This is how it looked in the Swedse stand D33, in hall 8, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, April 22-27, 2009!

Boxplay

February 16, 2009

Sofas in four different sizes, and an ottoman / divan part.

Boxplay sofas and ottoman / divan part, on steel sled base.
Here upholstered in Elmo Nordic leather.

Design by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Edge

February 16, 2009

Shelving system.

Edge shelving system for wall assembly.
In aluminium with white-, black- or silver colour finish.

Design by Bror Boije.

Hanahana

February 16, 2009

Hangers.

Freestanding coat stand, or coat hanger for wall mounting.
In ash wood with white or black lazur finish.

Design by Setsu & Shinobu Ito.

Olive

February 16, 2009

The seats and backs of the Olive chair/armchair are made in twenty individually different design expressions.

Olive comes in two basic designs:

Olive chair in oak, with wooden or with uholstered seat,

and

Olive stackable chair and armchair in birch, on a steel sled base in chrome finísh, with wooden or with upholstered seat.

Olive is designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Teatime

February 16, 2009

Servering trolley with frame in ash wood with white lazur finish, black lazur finish or clear natural lacquer. Scratch tolerant white trays, where the top tray can easily be detached from the trolley.

Teatime is designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Swedish Elle Interior Design Award - Best Furniture of the Year

February 10, 2009

The Libri shelf, designed by Michaël Bihain!

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.

Stockholm Furniture Fair, 4-8 February 2009

January 18, 2009

Thank you for visiting Swedese at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, stand C14:41! And, for visiting the Swedese shop+showroom at Narvavägen 10, Östermalm!

Swedese exhibited its news and furniture designed by Setsu & Shinobu Ito, Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, Ola Rune, Bror Boije, Monica Förster, Roger Persson, Michaël Bihain, Gam Fratesi, Barber Osgerby, Michael Sodeau, Arik Levy, Susann Wessely Gromark, Per Bornstein, Mattias Lind, Michael Young, Katrin Olina Petursdottir and Yngve Esktröm.

This was they layout of the Swedese stand C14:41 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, 4-8 February 2009.

Bolig Magasinets Design Awards - Best Upcoming

September 5, 2008

Has been awarded in 2008 to the designer duo GamPlusFratesi!

The designers Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi have won the Best Upcoming Designer Award 2008.
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One of the Swedese news this year is the easy chair Cartoon, being the firts designs by GamPlusFratesis that have gone into production. During the Copenhagen Furniture Festival you can see and try it at the Swedese Copenhagen showroom:

Sankt Jörgens Gård
Sankt Jörgens Allé 5C, 2 tr
1615 Köpenhamn V

And, together with the other winners of the Bolig Magasinets Design Awards in an exhibition at:

Normann Copenhagen
Österbrogade 70
2100 Österbro

This exhibition then continues tol:

Dansk Design Center
HC Andersens Boulevard 27
1553 København V

Where you can see it between 9-28 September 2008

The Libri shelf is nominated for the 2008 Swedish Design Award

April 2, 2008

The Swedish Design Award premiers for the second time around the best examples of Swedish design. Among over 200 contributions only 19 designs have been nominated by a renowned jury headed by Professor Kersti Sandin Bülow. A number of these nominees will then in June be premiered with the Swedish Design Award.

The Advertising Association of Sweden, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation and Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) have jointly created Swedish Design Award to reward Sweden's best design solutions with a "Design S". Creative products and services in all areas are welcome.

Swedish Design Award aims to demonstrate that good design can lead to better communication, better business, better functionality and better sustainability. In short, that good design can be of decisive importance.

Lamino - the reader's favourite

April 2, 2008

Writes the Swedish magazine Antikvarlden (the Antique World) in their issue no. 4/2008.

In issue no. 2/2008 of Antikvarlden was published an article about the ten most popular pieces of design furniture from the 20th century. The article also invited the readers to enter the magazine website to vote for their personal favourite.

The design classic who received the majority of the votes was the Lamino armchair, designed in 1956 by the founder of Swedese Yngve Ekström.

The other nine classics who parttake in the voting were  the Egg byArne Jacobsen, Jetson by Bruno Mathssonr , the String shelf by Nisse Strinning, Pernilla by Bruno Mathsson, the Batchair by Bonet, Kurchan and Ferrari-Hardoy, the Ant by Arne Jacobsen, Lilla Aland by Carl Malmsten, the Superellips table by Bruno Mathsson and Piet Hein and the Seven chair by Arne Jacobsen.

YNGVE EKSTROM - not only the Lamino chair

March 7, 2008

This exhibition showing furniture designed by the renowned Yngve Ekstrom runs from March 7th to April 6th 2008, at Smalands Konstarkiv, Jonkopingsvagen 41 in Varnamo, Sweden.

The exhibition opens Friday March the 7th, at 18.00.

Inauguration at 18.30 by Brita-Lena Ekström and Sven Lundh.

The exhibition is curated by Vandalorum.

Yngve Ekström (1913-1988) was born in Hagafors in Småland, Sweden, which happened to be where the country's oldest furniture industry was placed. He studied drawing, sculpture, painting, music and art history. With furniture virtually from his mother's milk, he started Swedese in 1945 and was leading the company right up until his death. His career coincided in time with the best part of the postwar modern movement and together with names including Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjaerholm he was at the core of a generation designers who made the concept "Scandinavian Modern" famous all over the world.
The most well-known design of Yngve Ekström's extensive portfolio is the Lamino armchair from 1956, which is still manufactured and sold all over the world. In 1999 the Lamino was voted the "Twentieth Century's Best Swedish Furniture Design" by the Swedish interior magazine Sköna Hem.
Ekström's furniture have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Munich and Belgrade, to name a few places, and are represented in many modern permanent collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.