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AUTUMN EDITION 2000 PUBLISHER Bertil Arwidson Nybrogatan 74 SE-114 41 Stockholm Tel: +46 8 660 96 19 Fax: +46 8 663 81 45 Email: bertil.arwidson@goodnews.se

EDITOR Jens Vagland Engelbrektsgatan 29 SE-114 32 Stockholm Tel: +46 8 16 81 11 Fax: +46 8 612 53 25 Email: jens.vagland@goodnews.se

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EDITORIAL Let’s admit it! We are in an era of extremely rapid changes. The tempo of the IT world makes a big impact on us all in one way or another. New technical developments are new for a few months and then something comes along which is even newer. Fun! Stimulating! Challenging! The future is already here! Great! But then, full speed ahead does include certain risks, doesn’t it? How are the furniture and furnishing industries affected by all this? How fast are demands changing, for example, in the areas of office planning and work-station design? Is it enough just to create flexible offices and open landscapes? Or are more and more office managers longing for their own little room and taking consolation in building themselves in behind higher and higher screens right in the middle of this open landscape? In this issue of GOOD NEWS, we present a number of interesting examples of modern office planning and creative working areas. We pay a visit to a successful IT company with views as to what characterizes a really creative environment.

“How fast are demands changing, for example, in the areas of office planning and workstation design?”

The highlight of this Good News issue is an article by architect, designer and professor Love Arbén which gives us a helping hand in straightening out some of the notions about what is happening in the area of office planning and furnishing. What new trends lie around the corner? A number of new Swedish products are also presented in this issue, some of which will be shown at Orgatec in Cologne, October 19–24. On the whole, Sweden will be strongly represented at this important trade fair with some 40 companies presenting their products.

It’s a well-known fact that Sweden is one of the leading countries in the IT world. And the same position applies likewise to Swedish design and the Swedish furnishing industry. At the present moment, a lot of very positive things are happening in our field of endeavour and our presence at Orgatec will demonstrate that fact. Not to mention the next Stockholm Furniture Fair in February, 2001 – it’s expected to break all records with exciting new items. See you in Stockholm – don’t miss this chance!

Bertil Arwidson Publisher

CONTENTS From the Editor’s desk

Icon Medialab

Bruno Mathsson Prize to Gunilla Allard

Excellent Swedish Design Prize to Offecct Interiör

Design award to Danish designer

The Furniture Industries invests in IT

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Salon du Meuble, Paris,

Stockholm Furniture Fair

THIS ISSUE will be distributed at Orgatec in Cologne, Salon du Meuble in Paris, IMM in Cologne and at The Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Today’s buzzword: “mobility”

Electrolux’ new headquarters

Stockholm Design

THE NEXT issue will appear in Spring 2001 and will be available at Salone del Mobile, Milan.

A home in the Källemo spirit

Svensk Bis in Paris

Swedish Design in a new home

Product & Market News

COVER PHOTO: Kinnarps new collection of office furniture will certainly attract interest at this year’s Orgatec in Cologne.

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DESIGN TRENDS: ICON MEDIALAB By Bertil Arwidson. Photo: Pia Ulin NOWADAYS, it’s representatives of industry, and especially IT-oriented companies, who are actually talking about breaking through barriers, wild playfulness and the right to do whatever you like. Creative organizations are not the same as what we are used to meeting in traditional economic environments, if we are to believe what we read in trade journals. There’s got to be plenty of elbowroom. The boss isn’t always right. Seldom do the best ideas come from management. Most often from employees or from out in the field. “Everything goes so terribly fast – chaos in this business is almost a necessity...” With these thoughts still resounding in our ears, we paid a visit to Icon Medialab in their new offices in the World Trade Center near the Central Station in downtown Stockholm. Our expectations about meeting a young, wildly creative gang in a fantastic and unorthodox environment were turned upside down. Everything seemed to be so well organized and efficient. An attractively furnished, light and wellplanned office area with a number of well thoughtout details and solutions. Where was that creative chaos we had been expecting? “Chaos is not something we emphasized when we designed Icon’s new offices. We see it rather as an attempt to create the proper conditions for extremely independent work with demands at the same time interactivity and rapid communication,” says architect Peter Sahlin, whose own company,

Signs of Sweden In the central part of the office, the visistor is welcomed by a comfortable sofa group from B&B.

FOR PERMANENT CHANGE We paid a visit to Icon Medialab in their new offices. Our expectations about a young, wildly creative gang in a unorthodox environment were turned quite upside down.

“The best individual work is created in teams” Sam, Creative Director, London, quoted on the cover of Icon Medialab International’s annual report.

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Peter Sahlin Arkitektur AB, has carried out this project. Peter and his company have nearly ten years of experience from the media industry – television corporations and TIME industries such as the Swedish TV3, TV 1000, TV 6 and MTV. “It’s important to have a management philosophy that works, important to have a framework for the way we work. You might call it a sort of quiet, general agreement,” he continues. THIS IS DIFFICULT

“It’s really hard to design functioning, open work areas that actually suit the needs of a modern media corporation. It’s just not acceptable to walk around in this sort of environment, talking on your mobile phone and disturbing your colleagues. The 2

demand in choice of furniture and lighting. Visitors must feel that they are welcome here. It goes without saying that a congenial lunch and cafeteria corner as well as other esthetic and practical needs take high priority when we design new offices.”

office landscape of the 1970’s was quite differINTERNATIONAL FURNISHING ent, almost like the old office cells. The feeling of For the work stations, the architects have ordered being in a room was created with screens and Skandi-Form’s Moby Disc desk and storage cabithere was plenty of space between the different nets from the same company. Chairs are from office stations. Lots of green plants, break rooms Vitra and lighting fixtures come from Fagerhults. and cafeterias – no, today’s economic reality is In the central part of the office there is a quite different. Modern working areas can best be ...continued on page 30 described as multi-functional areas.” * There is less floor space per person and work station today. * A person doesn’t have the same work station day in and day out since work is mainly divided up into various projects. Here at Icon Medialab, we have 70 work stations grouped into two different landscapes for a total of 100 employees as well as room for 30 trainees at Icon Training. * Everyone has a roll-away pedestal, a cabinet for private things, a business card – that’s it! “Management and financial control, however, are placed separately from other parts of the organization. But this has more to do with security than with hierarchy. “At the same time, I want to emphasize the absolute necessity of a pleasant atmosphere with stringent economic Classical Elegance: The “Egg” armchair. From Fritz Hansen. GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

orgatec 19 - 24 october hall 12.2 stand g30

imm 15 - 21 january hall 1.2 stand x 5 - y 6

stockholm furniture fair 7 - 11 february hall c

MATERIA www.materia.se info@materia.se tel: +46 (0)140 38 56 00

BLÅ STATION www.blastation.se info@blastation.se tel: +46 (0)44 24 90 70

IFORM www.iform.net info@iform.net tel: +46 (0)40 30 36 10

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Mathsson Prize to Gunilla Allard This year’s recipient of the Bruno Mathsson Prize worth SEK 100,000, is Gunilla Allard, architect SIR, Stockholm. The Bruno Mathsson Nordic Design Scholarship, worth SEK 20,000, was awarded to Kai Korhonen, a graduate of the College of Art and Industrial Design in Helsinki.

Gunilla Allard was awarded the prize for a furniture design characterised by elegance and simplicity, with a refined feeling for detail and proportion, and for her ability to adapt ideas to rational industrial production.

The Furniture Industries invests in IT – creates Home Pages for member companies

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“At present SMI, the Association of We see it as important that the inforSwedish Furniture Industries, in colmation provided by the portal should laboration with UEA, is engaged in an be relevant to architects, interior intensive operation within the Furnidecorators/designers and buyers. ture Portal Project. “We are part of a “Successive updating is the respecial working group and will have sponsibility of each manufacturer. completed our task by February, “Technical competence and ex2001,” says Jon Klegard, Managing pansion plans are satisfactory and, Director of SMI. at a later stage, will also be able to “It has fallen to us to arrange a satisfy the needs of the home mar‘kick-off’ meeting at the Stockholm ket. SMI has now initiated a collaboFurniture Fair, scheduled for February ration with Designmarket.com, which 8, 2001, when we’ll be presenting the European furniture Gateway. A great many of our members are already registered at ‘3-D Furniture‘. Those who have published products on it’s Internet-portal will have received a password and can make their own adjustments. Designmarket.com is one of the interesting new sites. “Together with Kenneth Eriksson, who is a deputy member of we consider to be an exellent source the SMI board and project leader at of information for the contract marPA-IT AB of Internetcity in Växjö, we ket. We also expect to be helping to carried out an analytic evaluation of develope and expand the portal for various portal companies with a view the home furniture market and interto finding suitable partners/associnational application. ates for the furniture industry. “We are convinced that the furni“Designmarket.com, in our opinture trade will use Internet as a meion, fulfils today’s technological redium for the marketing of furniture. quirements. The company has preThus a portal will be an indispensasented a strategy that has potential ble tool for spreading information for the development of products and and making it easier for the cusservices. Their plan guarantees eastomer,” is Jon Klegard’s final reflecily accessed information to users tion. and in the future will also make direct commercial transaction possible. If you have any queries or would like “The company’s objective is to further information, please contact: provide an effective marketplace for Jon Klegard,email: the Furniture and Lighting industry jon.klegard@mobelindustrin, with a focus on the contract market. or tel.no. +46 (0)8-23 07 80. 4

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New Swedish design award to young Danish designer Twenty-eight year-old Danish furniture designer, Cecilie Manz, has won the newly instituted Klaessons Design Team Award, worth SEK 50,000. In creating this Award, the furniture company Klaessons Möbler, wishes to highlight to the designer’s role and to promote design, art, and culture. The prize will be awarded annually by a jury composed of prominent designers from Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Cecilie Manz, who lives in Copenhagen, carries on the Danish furniture tradition of functional and aesthetic design. Wood, steel, chrome and aluminium are the materials she uses for creating her tables, benches, storage furniture, clothes hangers, pedestals and stepladders. Her backround includes studies, in furniture – and industrial design at Denmark’s School of Design, and at the University of Art and Design in

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Helsinki. She has also participated in various Scandinavian furniture fairs and numerous exhibitions at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen.

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Excellent Swedish Design Prize to Offecct Interiör The Offecct furniture company recently received the Excellent Swedish Design award for its Doppio collection, designed by Eero Koivisto. The collection forms part of the company’s current vigorous push into contemporary creative design. The prize was awarded with the following motivation: A furniture series of consistently bold design, with harmonious proportions and a pleasing use of materials. Acutely sensitive, trendy, and very versatile. “During the past year our efforts have largely been focused on the design aspect of our furniture collections, with a view to addressing an international market”, says Kurt Tingdal, Business and Marketing Doppio collection, designed by Eero Koivisto. Manager at Offecct. “We are honoured by the Award, its a sure and markets furniture for office and sign that we’re on the right path.” conference environments and recreaThe Doppio range includes dining tional spaces. It supplies a global chairs, lounge chairs, tables, sofas market, and has a team of interand armchairs. The allure of the nationally acclaimed designers who seating furniture lies in the dramatic develop concepts/products for creacollision between backrest and seat, tive meeting-places. which slot together like pieces of a The Offecct group includes puzzle. In the restrained elegance of Interstop, the brand under which it this collection complexity blends with designs and creates home furnishsimplicity. ings for design-conscious customers. “The series was developed in line The furniture is made at their own with our CMP concept”, Kurt Tingdal production unit, to ensure full control tells us. of the quality process. Annual turnoThe Doppio collection was prever is SEK 60 million; employees viewed in the spring and will be number 43. Offecct has a permanent shown at Orgatec in Cologne. showroom in Stockholm. The Head Offecct Interiör designs, develops Office is in Tibro. 6

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EDSBYN REPOSITIONS ITSELF FOR THE NEW ECONOMY

Edsbyn, a major supplier of hardware normally not associated with the IT sector: office furniture for a totally new work environment.

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Companies in the new economy are developing at a hectic pace. The image and manpower requirements of IT companies are changing rapidly, and entire departments can expand or shrink from one day to the next. “This makes high demands in terms of flexibility when designing an office,” says Josef Höbenreich, President of Edsbyn, which has already furnished offices for companies such as Ericsson, Nokia and CAP-Gemini. The new economy, with IT and telecom companies among the predominant players, is developing remarkably quickly. These developments have also left their mark on the activities of AB Edsbyverken, the 101-year-old company that now plays an active role as supplier to leading companies in the new economy. State-owned companies and institutions have always been among the major customers for Edsbyn’s traditional office environments. The customer range is now expanding to include companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, General Electric, Rank Xerox and CAP-Gemini (Oslo), and these customers make completely different

demands when it comes to office design. QUICK MOVES

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“Nowadays, nobody creates an office for life,” says Josef Höbenreich. “Instead, new companies want to be able to move their offices as quickly as possible. “An IT company may run a project involving numerous people for a couple of months. After this, the group might split up into smaller subgroups for whom a new office layout is required. And we have adapted our product range to handle these quick moves.” At Edsbyn, this is certainly reflected in the sales figures. This year, turnover will pass SEK 300 million and in order to meet the strong growth in demand, the company has invested in new production and taken on 30 more employees, with more to come. Before the end of the year, a range for quick delivery will be introduced. The aim is to deliver a work station from the factory no later than five days after receipt of order.

“Angles Suédois” on tour in Europe A travelling Swedish exhibition of modern furniture and interior fixtures and fittings had its première this autumn in St. Etienne as part of the Biennial celebrations, before moving on to the Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris in November and December. From there, it will travel to Luxembourg, Nice, Athens and Caen on the way to its final destination at Svensk Form’s new premises in Stockholm in 2002. The lady behind the tour is project manager Pascale Cottard-Olsson, a Stockholm gallery proprietor and something of an ambassador for Swedish design in the Francophone world. “I love Swedish modernism in so many different fields, and as I’m very keen to spread information on what’s new on the design front in Sweden in France and other French-speaking countries, it feels as though it is a matter of some importance to serve as “exhibitions commissioner”. I am 8

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getting financial support from the Swedish Foreign Office and have a close relationship with Svensk Form.” The main section of the exhibition is devoted to design work by Jonas Bohlin and Claesson, Koivisto and Rune. Jonas is always in the news, most recently for his interiors in Svensk Form’s new premises on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. The others are international names, known for designs that include the interior of the Swedish Embassy in Berlin. A number of young designers are also represented. “This is a nice way to do PR for Swedish design and Swedish interiors,” says Mårten Claesson. “We can design our own exhibition with everything in pure white, and put on display collections of furniture from Offecct, SkandiForm, Asplund, Cappelini, Swedese and David Design. It will be exciting to see what response there is to our modern furniture concept in Europe.” GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

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The Home of Tomorrow at Salon du Meuble ing a variety of projects on the “Home of Tomorrow” theme. Apart from this, the fair also includes the “le Village” expo, which includes displays of traditional and rural furniture in Hall 4, modern basic furniture in Hall 3, and mass-produced furniture in Halls 1 and 7 – as well as parallel fairs for accessories and lighting in Hall 4 and sub-contractors in Hall 7.

The theme of Salon du Meuble 2001 in Paris, Jan 11–15, is “The Home of Tomorrow”. The purpose of this furniture fair is for a number of international designers to highlight this theme from two different angles: luxury and general. A select group of exhibitors has also been invited to demonstrate how tomorrow’s home environment might create entirely new lifestyles.

SCANDINAVIAN PRESENCE

At the time of writing (October 2000), the Scandinavia presence consists of 20-plus exhibitors, half of which are Danish and mainly in the Carryhome section in Hall 7. Seven exhibitors have also registered from Norway, while the number from Sweden, at the time of writing, has not yet been settled. The situation on the French market this autumn has been described in very favourable terms. The economy is on the way up and so far this year purchasing power within the retail sector has shown dramatic growth.

At 150,000 m2, the fair will have just as much stand space as in the past, with some 1,500 exhibitors attracting an estimated 50–60,000 visitors. Metropole 2001 in Hall 3, Salon du Meuble’s exclusive design section, has been given a new layout, and will be divided into two main areas on each side of a central axis, with set design by French architect Chrispohe Pillet. This will also be where Ecole Francaise will be display-

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Meet Nordic design in Stockholm It used to be one of the best kept secrets in Europe. Now it´s a fast growing story of success. Yes, it’s here it all happens! the one interior design fair to bring together everything that Nordic design stands for. Stockholm as a city has also put itself on the world map as regards design, music, IT and food, so during the fair days there will be plenty of events around the city with design as True, Nordic design might be seen the main theme. around the world but it is just a fracThe Furniture Fair in Stockholm, tion of what Nordic design has to February 2001, is a fair dedicated offer. The Stockholm Furniture Fair is entirely to interior design, with each hall having its own distinctive image; the new C Hall, for instance, will be displaying furniture, The Stockholm Furniture Fair received in February 2000 a interior design and lighttotal of 41,000 visitors, which is an increase of 30 per ing for the contract marcent; a new record. Over 25,000 were trade visitors, and the open day, which is always a Sunday, attracted 15,000 ket with names like members of the public with an interest in interior design. Kinnarps, Lammhults, There were a total of 855 exhibitors at the Stockholm Blå Station and other Furniture Fair, which is also a 30 per cent increase on well-known companies. previous years. Of the trade visitors, a full 18 per cent were from abroad, Hall C will also house while 64 per cent had a decisive influence over purchasing a separate exhibition of within their companies. kitchen manufacturers The Stockholm Furniture Fair is arranged at Stockholm as well as group stands International Fairs, which is the largest exhibition and conference centre in the Nordic region. with such well-known Over the past three years, the centre has been extensively Danish and Finnish furnirebuilt and extended. This has included the completion of ture makers as Bent an entirely new hall with a floor-space of 21,800 square Krogh, Erik Boisen, metres, bringing the total area of Stockholm International Fairs up to 55,000 square metres. Vivero and Avarte.

No other furniture fair in Europe has grown so rapidly in size, in the number of visitors and with a distinctive image of high-quality Nordic design as the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

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MODERN HOME FURNITURE GET ITS OWN HALL

In 2001 Hall B will be dedicated exclusively to modern furniture. From the first time the section was organised, Area Modern was a success. It contains furniture and interior design in the grey-zone between home and contract market. Area Modern displays tomorrow’s most advanced and contemporary designs for furniture, textiles and quality items. The exhibitors of Area Modern are hand-picked by a special committee.

design also has a place at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, with home furniture, textiles and interior fittings in Hall A. The Victoria Hall, named after Swedens crown princess Victoria, will house a wide variety of carpets. SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS...

The Fair will also be arranging some special exhibitions; these include a section dedicated to “the chair” as seen from a Swedish and international perspective as part of the 2001 Year of Architecture in Stockholm.

HOME 2001

Next year, Hall B will house Home 2001. This section was arranged on a small scale in 2000 and, rightly so, aroused the interest of both exhibitors and visitors alike. Home 2001 will exhibit products that give a clear insight into the main trends in interior design for the new century. The hall will also be displaying modern furniture with a distinct design image as well as the work of the Nordic design schools in the Young Nordic Design section. However, classical and traditional

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...AND SEMINARS

Seminars and talks on a wide range of subjects are key features of the fair. One of next year’s speakers is Milou Ket from the design studio Milou Ket Design in Amsterdam, who will be speaking about trends, colours and styles for 2002. LIGHTING 2001

Chair Ambassad Mats Theselius´ Bruno armchair designed in copper tubing and light-coloured leather especially for the Swedish embassy in Berlin.

Arranged parallel to the Stockholm Furniture Fair, between February 7–11, is the trade fair for home lighting, Lighting 2001. GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

DESIGN TRENDS by Love Arbén, architect SIR, SAR.

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“mobility” “The problem is that our new mobility no longer defines the workplace unambiguously in time and space”, says Love Arbén in this article on the modern way of working. “We are reverting to a nomadic existence”. >>> 14

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Sofa “Avec”. Design Birgitta Lööf. Produced by Klaessons

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DESIGN TRENDS & SWEDISH

DESIGN ON DISPLAY

T Flexible and expressive clothes-hanger. Design Sandin & Bülow SIR/SID. Produced by Materia.

Easy Chair Nobel Forum. Design Johan Celsing. Produced by Gärsnäs.

oday’s buzzword is without doubt “mobility”; a word that could refer to getting Internet direct to your mobile, to a continual dashing about with some communications gadget, or simply to a generally free look on life in the global rat-race. Not so long ago, “flexible” was the word on everybody’s lips. But then again the step from “flexible” to “mobile” is not so great. What has taken us from yesterday’s view that limits can be stretched to today’s nigh on limitless fluidity is mainly the runaway development of IT and the new opportunities it opens up. Every week we see new products and services, which, recently totally unheard of, are now self-evident and absolutely indispensable tools for running our everyday lives. New concepts such as Wap, Bluetooth or MP3 are already contrivances to reckon with, and much more is just around the corner. The main driving force behind the accelerating pace of technological development in the data processing field is the fact that applications that were once separate phenomena are now interlinked, which opens up entirely new perspectives. ONES AND ZEROS

We come up against digital ones and zeros pretty much wherever we turn. And step by step the advances are starting to influence even the most fundamental aspects of our lives. We’re having to re-educate ourselves, and the lessons can sometimes be hard going. For example, banks have introduced new deterrent fees to encourage us to make our payments on line instead. The Post Office will soon be little more than a distant memory; a letter no longer means so much now that we can talk to each other all the time via email and mobile phone anyway. Instead, we’ll have to take our Christmas parcels to the petrol station. And while e-commerce may have had a few teething troubles, many of our routine purchases will probably soon be made in this way. We have already been shown “intelligent homes”, where the fridge itself works out what needs replenishing… yes, the list of new inventions seems endless, and of course it is getting longer by the day.

Chair Cosmos. Design Gunilla Allard. Produced by Lammhults

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Stackable chair “ECO”. Design: Peter Karpf. Produced by Iform. Earlier this year ECO was awarded the Ecology Design Award by Industrie Forum Design, Hannover. A total of 1 650 products were entered of which 1 144 from 30 countries went further in the 15 categories. 357 were nominated for the final. The ECO was chosen as best in the “Home” category.

THIRST FOR INFORMATION

Our thirst for information seems unquenchable. And ahead of all these innovations, the most worrying thing is probably what is considered the weakest link in the chain – man himself. Genetic manipulation and cloning represent a golden opportunity for upgrading human abilities – maybe a small surgically implanted chip will enable us to speak fluent Chinese at the blink of an eye or at least help us struggle through a software manual. Nonetheless there is still a certain sentimentality attached to our faults and shortcomings that makes them hard to part with. HUMAN MIND STILL UNBEATABLE

Koncept is the name of a new series from Form3. Here “Lobby” armchair & table, design Stina Sandwall. 16

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It was some consolation to hear a brain surgeon explain the other day that the human mind is still unbeatable. Converted into the storage capacity of millimetre thin CD-ROM disks, it corresponds to a stack of disks 300,000 miles high. I do not know how high the pile would be if converted into regular 1.4 MB floppy disks, but the question will, nevertheless, soon be passé. These disks are already on their way to history’s refuse tip. The word “mobility” is hardly an innovation in the furniture industry. The word “mobile”, after all, means a movable item of furniture. Hence the name. In olden times furnishing consisted of cabinets and benches that were fixed to the wall, not objects that could be moved around. New lifestyle

patterns during the mediæval period made demands for greater flexibility, and “furniture”, mobile furnishing, was born. Nowadays, it is just as natural for us to surround ourselves with furniture as it is to cover our bodies with clothes. However, for primitive man both these ideas were totally unknown. Our lifestyle patterns and the things we surround ourselves with, differ totally from those of ancient times, even though human needs have barely changed during man’s short time on earth.

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A SYSTEMATIC CHANGE

Step by step, new technology and new tools have helped mankind advance from the stone age to the computer age. What we are experiencing right now is just the beginning of a systemic change, the immediate consequences of which can already be seen in our homes and workplaces. Mobility involves, among other things, a blurring of the demarcation line between our private sphere and our vocational role. Work no longer requires our presence; the important point now is not when and where we do our work, but what result we achieve. In actual fact, things have always been like that, but the Good Lord, with a bit of help from Luther, put moral impediments in the way. With constant access to a global flow of information via the Internet our work and the way we search for information have also changed radically. The world’s accumulated knowledge is all there for us to access, regardless of where we are. And this, the amount of information available, is one aspect of the main problem. How do we navigate on this new, uncharted sea? Developments in our homes mostly involve acquiring some new electronic friends to put up and learn to live with. The basic role of the home as the fixed star in our everyday firmament does not change. However, at work the opposite is true. The pocket office has become a reality. The factors that help us to develop at work are not the conventional nine-to-five routine tasks, but the new ways of thinking that emerge in a more informal manner, in conversations and encounters with others. Our social competence is becoming an increasingly important factor as we become network builders. “Management by walking around” is the new leadership model.

Moby Disc. Design: Ruud Ekstrand. Produced by Skandiform

“It was some consolation to hear a brain surgeon explain the other day that the human mind is still unbeatable. Converted into the storage capacity of millimetre thin CD-ROM disks, it corresponds to a stack of disks 300,000 miles high”

Gate from Blå Station. Design Börge Lindau.

A NEW SITUATION, NOMADIC EXISTENCE

Naturally, this requires a completely different work environment from today’s, which focuses on desks and storage furniture. As the office comes increasingly to resemble a second living room, so we make the same demands for well-being and comfort there as we do at home. The problem is that our new mobility no longer defines the workplace unambiguously in time and space. We are reverting to a nomadic existence. Paradoxically enough, technical development has brought us back into the environment that existed before we built our first settlements, began to cultivate the soil and keep cattle, and started to create a civilisation. What will our work places look like in the future? As the most important task at work will be to meet colleagues and exchange experiences, the social scenography will obviously be of the greatest importance. We have to be content if we are to socialise effectively. Naturally, we must also continue to be able to “empty our pockets” of the results that we have achieved. However, this routine work does not necessarily have to involve sitting at a desk at >>>

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Kinnarps new range of furniture: e™. Design: Kinnarps/Kenneth Österlin. Colour-psychology is a special field of ergonomic studies, being particularly important when designing a new office. The issue of colour ergonomics will be discussed further in the Orgatalks by Karl Ryberg, which take place during the Orgatec (October 19 until 24, 2000; Cologne) and at the Kinnarps booth (hall 12.2, aisle F/G, booth 10/19).

A new range of furniture from Lustrum. Here “Lollo”. Design Pelican & Co. GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

DESIGN TRENDS >>> the workplace. Much effort has been devoted to providing us with the most ergonomic workplaces possible: good lighting, the ability to alternate between standing and sitting, and flexibility in the positioning and design of the work place. The need for a fixed time and space has, however, stood in the way of more radical ideas, even if we have tried both “flexi-offices” and “paperless offices”.

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THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE

The office of the future could possibly resemble a city that offers its citizens an extensive range of services, entertainment and venues, but that will require active participation if it is to be used to the full. Admittedly, we have the whole world at our fingertips, on display screens and keyboards. However, the factor that decides how successful we are will be is how well we process this information. Discussing and evaluating things with others will become the most important task of tomorrow. No longer a place for office slaves, our work places are being transformed into “think tanks”. The major lines of development will be established here. This is where creativity will flow. We can see, for example, how the latest frenzy on the stock market has shifted the focus onto an entirely new occupational category, namely the “analyst” – an individual who gathers information and attempts to say something about the immediate future in the world of business. Our living standards and general prosperity appear to depend on the more or less qualified guesses of these oracles. At tomorrow’s work places, it is the analysts among us who will be in demand to help us sift

Bamboo King. Design Mats Theselius. Produced by Källemo.

the wheat from the chaff in the constant flow of information. A large part of the new technology is also about recreation and entertainment. New games, DVD films and digital TV channels fill up the time that used to be dedicated to hard work. DO WE NEED TO WORK?

The terrifying truth could be that many of us won’t need to work in the future. The brave new world is already here, with problems of obesity, depression, and feelings of emptiness, not to mention

the unwanted and uncontrollable camp followers accompanying our human army along its march of progress. No longer having to work by the sweat of our brow, we in the western world find ourselves facing the problem of what to do with our spare time. Happily, there is a solution – “back to nature”. The phenomenon known as “adventurism” is a clear example of this. Perhaps man’s first period on earth has come full circle. What should we do next? Well, that’s another story…. by LOVE ARBÉN, architect SIR, SAR.

The Big Step

The Swedish participants at this year´s Orgatec 10 11

Klaesssons Lammhults Lustrum Zero Configura

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Stand B 10 / C 11 Stand D 10 / E 11 Stand A 25 Stand A 25 Stand Q 40

At Orgatec – from October 19–24,around 1 100 suppliers from 46 countries will

Be-Ge Industri Formträ Nordic Höganäsmöbler Inergoskandia Miljö-Expo Swed-Style

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Stand E 63 Stand B 61 Stand D 21 Stand B 50 Stand J 48 Stand A 70

office furniture fair in the world – tough competition, no doubt about it!

Signs of Sweden: Blå Station Iform Källemo Materia Kinnarps Kinnasand Malmstolen RH-Form

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Stand F 10 / G 19 Stand E 30 Stand A 11 Stand D 11

Albin i Hyssna Bogesunds Väveri Diafax Gabriel Glimåkra Akvamatik Håg Marks Pelle Vävare Mitab Offecct Office Line SMD Office Design Swedish Trade Council Texmads Kvadrat UllmanStolen Vemo Kasthall

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Stand L 39 Stand H 9 Stand Q 39 Stand H 20 / J 19 Stand L 39 Stand S 1 Stand L 50 Stand Q 47 Stand S 48 Stand Q 29 Stand N 30 Stand Q 44 Stand L 28 / M 29 Stand Q 48 Stand Q 40 Stand Q 47

Abstracta Gärsnäs Ludwig Svensson

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Stand A 19 Stand H 28 Stand A 79

present themselves, including all the world´s leading office furnishers. 85 000 professionel visitors from around 100 countries are expected. This is the largest More than 40 Swedish companies are participating with top products, many new

After 100 years on Lilla Essingen, an island near the center of Stockholm, Electrolux has moved to another part of the city.

items and attractive stands. Here is our guide to the Swedish part of the show:

Naturally, it’s a big step when a world-wide corporation makes a decision to move its headquarters. An old hospital building was transformed into a modern, efficent and attractive office complex of international style.

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Something special about this move is the fact that the company has taken over a former hospital, a building erected at the end of the sixties based on architectural principles that are completely different from what is sought after today. The result has exceeded all expectations: a modern, efficient and attractive office complex of international style with great flexibility. Tengbom Arkitekter, the same architectural office that designed St. Göran’s Children’s Hospital in 1968, has now transformed the clinic into Electrolux Forum. Åke Bejne and Jesper Husman share overall architectural responsibility for the project and Ahlsén & Tengbom, from the same office, are in charge of interior design. We met SIR architects Nilla Cronstedt and Olle Almgren who took on the greater part of this design challenge. “This project turned out to be an extremely complicated design concept␣ and we’re not exaggerating when we say that the task has been a tremendous challenge for us,” the architects say in agreement. “At this stage in development, we are quite satisfied with the results even if everything hasn’t gone exactly as we had planned from the beginning. “The building has an area of 34,000 m2 and GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

our plans from the beginning included 900 work areas. However, during the course of the project, the situation changed somewhat. Areas planned for offices became showrooms instead. And at the same time, the number of work areas needed to be increased to 1,100 due to the company’s rapid expansion. So you see that it has become a little crowded in the office section and we ended up with 10.6 m2 per person.” 10 PER CENT INDIVIDUAL ROOMS

“We had planned on having 20 percent for the offices as individual rooms but this figure␣ had to be halved. The small glass rooms can easily be moved since demands for flexibility are of greatest priority in this dynamic company,” Olle Almgren points out. The remaining work spaces are arranged in an open office landscape. “It’s not just a question of utilizing floor space to a maximum even though this is of course an important demand. The openness of the office area has other advantages too. New employees can settle in faster. It is more conducive to direct communication among members of work groups, which in turn leads to the continual development of staff competence.” >>> 19

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An old building with massive outer walls, full of large supporting columns and long corridors can go through a remarkable change and work extremely well

The layout is clear and easily understood: conference and group rooms are placed along the outer wall, as well as the staff kitchenette. Seating by Charles Eames

>>> But there are disadvantages as well. Staff members lack the privacy they enjoyed in the old office modules.␣ Disturbance from people going by one’s desk is considerable, as is the general level of noise in the office landscape. A NEW APPROACH

“To make these open areas work satisfactorily, a new approach is necessary when it comes to looking at one’s way of working. Making the most of this new work environment may require a completely new organization based upon the new situation. I think that we have made some significant progress in the direction of a new “office culture” after all the experimentation of the 90’s. But I see that a lot of people in management seem to underestimate the psychological value of preparing

employees for this type of office concept. “Our layout is clear and easily understood: conference and group rooms are placed along the outer wall, as well as the staff kitchenette. All areas intended for meetings and discussions are glazed in and separated from the office area by a passageway and a storage area that also houses copying machines, fax machines etc. Electrical installations, ventilation and computer wiring are all housed in a special floor installation, not in the ceiling as is usually the case. In this way, we provide open office space free of suspended cables with a ceiling height of up to 2.7 meters.” LIGHT AND SPACE

The results of these efforts provide evidence for the fact that an old building with massive outer walls, full

of large supporting columns and long corridors can go through a remarkable change and work extremely well for the corporate needs of today and tomorrow. The prominent glass structures at the entrance to the building greatly contributes to this result, as do the four lofty glassroofed light wells that bring light and space into the dark center parts of the building. In the evening, the towering glass cubes are illuminated, spreading light in the dark ceiling landscape outside. A striking effect! Electrolux Forum’s ultra-modern restaurant, in the heart of the building, is a natural allusion to the company’s well known focus on kitchen appliances. In the same area, guests may visit an exhibition of intelligent home appliances such as a charming little vacuum-cleaning robot that takes care of its cleaning duties all by itself!

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN

“We have chosen to concentrate on an international image,” Nilla Cronstedt adds. “Conference tables, desks and storage furniture are specially designed in our own offices. Tables from Lammhults and Gärsnäs as well as net seating furniture from Alias provide a recurrent theme throughout the entire building. In addition, we have chosen sofas from Capellini, armchairs from Walter Knoll and lighting from Foscarini.” The serious work of organizing orders and deliveries for a project of this size was handled by Nordiska Galleriet in Stockholm. This well-known, and respected furniture store offers a quality range of design furniture from all over Europe with an emphasis on Italian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish design. However, for many years Nordiska Galleriet has also worked successfully as an interior decorating company within the sector of the contract market. “We have worked with coordinating deliveries for Electrolux Forum and this has been a stimulating task,” says Tommy Svensson, project manager at Nordiska Galleriet. “One of our advantages in this undertaking has naturally been our well-developed network of contacts on the Swedish market. But we are also general agents for several of the leading Italian manufacturers. Good design and top quality have been our trademarks since 1913 – and this background makes things easier for us on today’s competitive market. We can provide the necessary knowledge and experience that are required when a big project like this is to be carried out without delays and logistical problems when it comes to deliveries,” concludes Tommy Svensson.

CORPORATE COLORS

The glass rooms can easily be moved since demands for flexibility are of greatest priority, the remaining work spaces are arranged in an open office landscape. 20

“Our objective has been to allow in as much daylight into the rooms as possible,” Nilla Cronstedt points out. “And our choice of colors is an important ingredient in this respect. The various colors signal the corporate identity of the different subsidiary companies. Zanussi is represented by yellow, AEG and Husqvarna by orange and Electrolux by its own dark blue. “Office areas are painted in a classic shade of grey, allowing for different color accents to be added later on. Perhaps it might have been more interesting with a striking contrast between black and white, but then grey is also a color of timeless quality.”

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STOCKHOLM DESIGN By Imke Januschek Photo Peter Knutson

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A chair out of the ordinary from Blå Station

THE OLD TOWN & THE NEW DESIGN Stockholm is the place to be. Ask any IT consultant in New York what his favourite destination is and a dreamy look will come into his eyes as he speaks of “Mälardrottningen” (the Mälar Queen) and its inhabitants. All those connected dot.com people, who dress in the right clothes, live with the right furniture and eat at the right restaurants. For some years now the international lifestyle press has been carrying on a passionate love affair with most of what the Swedish capital has to offer, in particular design made in Sweden. 22

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So when you come to Stockholm to explore the last word in design, you can be sure that you have come to the right place. This is where the inpeople stroll, shop and display themselves. The IT and media pulse beats loud and strong in the oldest part of the city, Gamla Stan (the Old Town). Its narrow streets house many start-up ITcompanies and a lot of the new Scandinavian design. A suitable starting point for an update-tour of Scandinavian design is Tullhus 3, a glass pavilion located in a breathtakingly beautiful setting on Skeppsbron, by the quayside, with a panoramic view of the harbour entrance, the island of Skeppsholmen and Södermalm (the south-side).

Addresses

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“All those connected dot.com people, who dress in the right clothes, live with the right furniture and eat at the right restaurants”

The Old city Blå Station. Stora Nygatan 22 Jonas Bohlin. Södermalmstorg, Kinnasand. Skeppsbrokajen Klara. Nytorgsgstan 36 Lammhults. Mälartorget 19 Skandiform. Stora Nygatan 40–43

Östermalm David Design. Nybrogatan 7 Nordiska Galleriet. Nybrogatan 11 Asplund. Sybillegatan 31 Kungsholmen Room, Alströmergatan 20 City CBI. Birger Jarlsgatan 34 Gallerie Stolen. Birger Jarlsgatan 57

The Lammhult showroom is situated in the small square known as Mälartorget. Here Gunilla Allard’s prize-winning armchair Chicago Lammhults, Mälartorget 19

ALVAR AALTO CLASSICS

After a breath of fresh sea air, one can enjoy a splendid triad of Alvar Aalto classics, Swedish textile design and bold Finnish innovation in the exhibition hall. Finnish Artek, Swedish Kinnasand and, yet again, Finnish Snowcrash share the space in this airy pavilion. The doors of the showroom are flung wide and a gentle sea breeze stirs the Kinnasand textiles. The Snowcrash lamp, “Globlow”, stands in the middle of the room, its big white nylon cushion elegantly balanced on a thin metal rod. When the lamp is switched on it automatically inflates like a balloon; when turned off, it slowly crumples to a heap. Snowcrash is a joint venture between four Finnish architects, who have aroused much interest at furniture fairs across Europe. The economic boom of the last few years has certainly set Sweden’s wheels a-spinning. The price of housing has risen astronomically. The aforementioned IT consultants, now known as IT millionaires, are a veritable goldmine for the furniture trade. They love to invest in new, forwardlooking design, and are willing to pay for it. For instance, “Netsurfer”, the extravagant IT furnishing from Snowcrash, has found a customer or two, according to Hans Röstlund at Tullhuset.

The private showroom of Jonas Bohlin. Elegant metal tables and chairs, playful “tulle” lamps that resemble ballet skirts, dangle from the ceiling, a lovely carpet strewn with signs of spring – linger here a while, in the world of Bohlin. Bohlin, Södermalmstorg.

After a breath of fresh sea air, one can enjoy a splendid triad of Alvar Aalto classics, Artek, Swedish Kinnasand and Snowcrash. Tullhus 3: Skeppsbrokajen. 24

The locale also contains an exhibition by the Swedish textiles company, Ludwig Svensson: a number of magnificent curtains, in which the Scandinavian ascetic has been spiced up a bit by the addition of glittery details. A COLOURFUL SHOP

“A lot of IT-companies want it for their reception area. They say it boosts our credibility”, he tells us. The furniture people we encounter in showrooms and boutiques assure us that the blurring of boundaries between public and domestic environments has grown stronger of late. More and more people are able to afford contract furniture for their homes. Among those working within this borderland is the team of young architects, Claesson, Koivisto and Rune, who have made a name for themselves with such prestigious projects as the interior design for the Swedish Embassy in Berlin. SKANDIFORM ON STORA NYGATAN

If we want to see some of the trio’s

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latest creations, we must leave the seaview behind and weave our way through the alleys of the Old Town. In Stora Nygatan, one of Stockholm’s main parades during the 18th century, we find SkandiForm, famous a few years back for it’s ergonomic furniture for the aged. Now the company is prominent on the contract market. Be sure not to miss a tour of the vaults – a typical Old Town feature – where you can admire Claesson, Koivisto and Rune’s upholstered “Dropp” series. Jonas Lindvall’s oak tables and chairs, appropriately named “Oak” were recently awarded the Excellent Swedish Design distinction. Note also SkandiForm’s elegant writing-desk series, ’Moby Disc’.

Further down the street is a brand new boutique owned by the Scanian furniture company, Blå Station. Here is further proof that Swedish designers are also daring to attempt colour. Blå Station has, in recent years been incorporating more fabrics and more colour into its earlier Swedish blonde furniture. The very first upholstered BS sofa can now be seen here. Architect Börge Lindau who founded the

company together with his children, Mimi and Johan, in the mid 1980s, died in 1999. His design is rooted in the sixties, when the well-known partnership of Lindau and Lindekrantz attracted much attention at Lammhults. Try out one of the Blå Station chairs – or why not the sofa? See how the dot.commers hurry in to take a look at the exciting lamps being offered for sale by Magdalena Edlund for the firm “Ljus i Hus” (Light in the House). A SWEDISH PACE-SETTER

A stone’s throw away lies a Swedish milestone in the area of bentwood design: Lammhults. The Lammhult showroom is situated in the small square known as Mälartorget. First, a glance at the view across Södermalm, to which we will shortly wend our way, then a dive into the Lammhult design universe: the complete collection of well-known “Campus” chairs, by Peter Hjort Lorensen and Johannes Foersom, now enjoying a sales success in Europe; Gunilla Allard’s prize-winning armchairs and

When you are visiting SkandiForm be sure not to miss a tour of the vaults, where you can admire Claesson, Koivisto and Rune’s upholstered “Dropp” series. SkandiForm. Stora Nygatan 40–43 GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

A brand new boutique, owned by the Scanian furniture company, Blå Station. Here is further proof that Swedish designers are also daring to attempt colour. Blå Station, Stora Nygatan 22

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sofas, and the exciting (chair) creations by the new star, Anya Sebton. One last look at the Jonas Bohlin chairs, with names like “Stockholm” and “Paris”, inspired by his project, and “Life”, that entailed crossing from Stockholm to Paris in a rowing boat. Wondering how anyone could hit on such an idea, you begin the climb towards the “southern heights”. On the way up to Slussen, your gaze sweeps over Lake Mälaren, while you continue to muse on the idea of rowing all the way from Stockholm to Paris. In summertime, by way of amusement, many Stockholmers stand gazing at what is known as “the channel of divorce”, the lock between the fresh waters of Lake Mälaren and the Sea. Here many a marriage has been severely tested in “locked” boats on the passage through Slussen, (the lock). But, we haven’t time for schadenfreude, we must continue the climb. Arriving at Södermalms Torg, there’s reason to ponder the subject of boats in a wider sense; for we are now at the private showroom of Jonas Bohlin. Bohlin is one of the big names within Sweden’s design elite. He has always been fascinated by boat construction, and here are several examples of furniture inspired by the “Life” project. Elegant metal tables and chairs, playful tulle lamps that resemble ballet skirts, dangle from the ceiling, a lovely carpet strewn with signs of spring – linger here a while, in the world of Bohlin.

A recital of the brand names represented at Nordiska Galleriet reads like a contest in namedropping: Capellini, Cassina, Flexform, Vitra and Jorgensen jostle with Citterios, Källemo, Fritz Hansen and Artek, to name but a few. Nordiska Galleriet, Nybrogatan 11

A good time at work colours the rest of the day

The trendies usually stroll towards Asplund’s. Sibyllegatan 31. THE NORDISKA GALLERIET IS A MUST

After that, it’s time to leave the Old Town for a tour of the city centre. To the east is the district of Östermalm, home and pleasure-ground to the bourgeoisie, and which sports a number of exclusive furniture boutiques. Nordiska Galleriet in Nybrogatan, for instance, is a must, specialising as it does in international design on a high level. A recital of the brand names represented here reads like a contest in namedropping: Capellini, Cassina, Flexform, Vitra and Jorgensen jostle with Citterios, Källemo, Fritz Hansen and Artek, to name but a few. One floor down brings us to the

department for public environmental and office furniture, and a corner devoted to chairs. The lighting section has a wide range of lighting equipment, which includes Flos and Foscarini. This is where Stockholmers come to purchase a Wegner Oxchair or a Corbusier easy chair. Or merely to yearn a little. If you’re looking for a piece of pocket-sized furniture, the Gallery gift shop has a stock of miniatures from the Vitra Museum of Design. ASPLUND’S

After a visit to NG, the trendies usually stroll towards Asplund’s, which carries both its own and other

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Energy is the basis of a good day’s work. That’s why

brands of furniture. A rich assortment of Swedish artefacts, such as Pia Wallen carpets and Thomas Sandell chairs, mingle with international creations like Living Divani easy chairs. A wide range of accessories includes glass by Ingegerd Råman, and kitchen equipment from Alessi and Marc Newson. Travellers with a serious interest in furniture should also pay a visit to Klara, Room, & David Design, three ultra-modern Swedish boutique concepts; for which young urban professionals will gaily sacrifice a Saturday morning, and make a pilgrimage to join the jostling crowds.

Kinnarps designs office solutions that let the power and the inspiration of the personnel flourish. In a good working environment, which is formed to release energy, people feel committed and full of creativity. A good time at work colours the rest of the day. A body and a soul that are satisfied during working hours, effects you the same way on your leisure time. www.kinnarps.com

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MARKET NEWS By Bertil Arwidson. Photo PeO Eriksson

SVENSK BIS IN PARIS

and his life’s-work, Källemo, are well known concepts in the furniture industry even far outside the borders of Sweden. With impressive enSven Lundh thusiasm and consistency and by commissioning hand-picked designers of distinction, he has developed a collection of furniture of exceptional beauty and power. A few famous names will suffice to prove the point: John Kandell, Jonas Bohlin, Mats Theselius. Some of Gunnar Asplund’s classics are also a part of Källemo’s collection of heirlooms for today and tomorrow. And Sven Lundh practises what he preaches. For the past few years he has been residing in a home which embraces nearly the entirety of his artistic values – a remarkable and interesting home in which interior furnishings and exterior design are congenially combined in an all – encompassing totality. SVEN LUNDH

John Kandell is the architect of this personal and interesting little building that Sven Lundh has commissioned to be built right next door to his furniture company. Bright blue, white and black – the color scheme alone makes the house stand out in the middle of the southern Swedish birch forest. A cube with a living area of 75 s.q.m and with exterior dimensions of six by six meters. Plus a roofed-in patio. The entire ground floor has been furnished with Kandell-designed furniture in his particularly powerful style. His artistic touch is well defined in red, blue, black or white. Upstairs we meet Bruno Mathsson’s celebrated furniture both in the bedroom and in the study. Here it’s white and natural colors that dominate in a classic blonde Scandinavian style. The pride of the town of Värnamo, Bruno Mathsson was natural for

A cube with a living area of 75 s.q.m, with exterior dimensions of six by six meters.

1998, Charlotte Christiansson introduced SVENSKT (meaning Swedish), a design shop selling and promoting quality design products from Sweden, centrally located at 11, rue Payenne in Paris. Now, two years later, she is starting up SVENSKT BIS expanding her concept to sell not only Swedish design items but also Scandinavian ones. The company will also work as representative and distributor for these products. As a first step in this direction, SVENSKT BIS opened a special exhibition in the elegant Romeo Gallery, two blocks from her shop during the time of Salon de Maison et Objet. In the picture are shown design items from Galleri Stolen, Norell, CBI, Karl Andersson & Söner, Jonas Bohlin, Mathsson International, Box Design, Nina Jobs and Zara Szyber. Also shown in the Romeo Gallery were Marimekko, Formtanke, Playsam and Åsa Lindström. The opening party of this exhibition was visited by 600 people representing press, buyers, designers and architects. The exhibition lasted two weeks in September.

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blå station

SWEDISH DESIGN HAS FOUND A NEW HOME IN STOCKHOLM During the autumn, Sweden’s and Stockholm’s new design centre was opened on Skeppsholmen, a stone’s-throw away from the Museum of Modern Art and close to the Swedish Museum of Fine Arts.

A remarkable home in the Källemo spirit John Kandell is the architect of a personal and interesting little building that Sven Lundh has commissioned to be built right next door to his furniture company. Sven to have represented in his home collection. Both Sven and Bruno grew up in Värnamo and have collaborated for many years. “While Bruno was designing a house for me in the middle of the 50’s, he was contacted by Piet Hein and the super-ellipse table with steelstrap legs came into being,” Sven relates. “I got a start in the world of furniture when I became marketing manager for Mathsson International which was just getting going then. I learned how to tell the difference between good and bad product design by working with the first table exhibits. The super-ellipse is not something you ever throw away.” Everything seems so modern and

futuristic when you come in and get an overall view of this new construction from the inside. But still, we are quite conscious of the fact that the artistic idiom both of the furniture and of the architecture of the building itself comes directly from the world of the 1950’s. And this insight demands a moment or two of reflection and respect. We realize that this is just one more proof of the fact that good design bridges all gaps, even the gap

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of time. “A good piece of furniture will stand the wear and tear of the eye,” is a way Sven Lundh usually sums up his view of ageless design.

With its 155 years, Svensk Form – the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, is the world’s oldest design organisation. After many years it has finally acquired its own meeting place in which exhibitions, a design library, a photo library, discussion evenings, lectures, retail shop, coffee shop and a room for journals are housed. Here in the bright, new premises in the Swedish Museum of Architecture’s old but recently renovated building, everyone who is interested in design can experience modern Swedish design, ranging from product design, graphic design, and industrial design to interior design culture, fine craftmanship and the art industry. Jonas Bohlin, SIR, has designed an interior worthy of the prestigious commission. He has not hesitated to recommend his own spiritual furniture which dances elegantly through the modern environment like a sign of the times.

This is naturally a major step and a joyous occasion for Swedish Design”, says a pleased and smiling Johan Huldt, MD of the Society.

The public flocked to the opening ceremony, performed by Minister of Culture Marita Ulvskog. Not everyone could be accommodated in the large hall and the windows had to be opened so the general public outside could hear her words of praise about the new home for design. A new colour for the corporate identity was also introduced – a shade of spring yellow – and a new graphic programme, worked out by Stockholm Design Lab. “Skeppsholmen is a good address although it still mainly attracts what we can call the already initiated public. We wish to go beyond that, and the ideal address would therefore be a permanently busy roundabout in the middle of town.” The present project has been realised mainly thanks to the support of the Swedish Ministry of Culture and the Foundation for Future Culture, and in the nick of time given that the government has decided that 2001 is to be the year for architecture and design. This, in turn, is associated with Sweden’s spell holding the Jonas Bohlin, SIR, has designed an interior worthy of the prestigious presidency of the EU. commission. GOOD NEWS AUTUMN EDITION 2000

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EXCELLENT SWEDISH DESIGN AWARD TO KLAESSONS SALONE 2001 IN MILAN Klaessons Möbler has once again been honored 40 YEARS OF SUCCESS with the Outstanding Swedish Design award. This year’s distinction has been shared by two products: – Longo, a sofa designed by KOMPLOT and Eva, a chair designed by Simo Heikkilä and Yrjö Wiherheimo. Longo is quite a harsh looking sofa, one part of a flexible system that can be tailor made according to the wishes of the user. The series includes sofa, bench, stool and table with enclosed or open sides. Longo can stand by itself or connect up with other sections. Two seats can share a wider back piece, Longo Double. Various accessories may be chosen, including arm rests, and Longo can also be ordered with removable textile covering. In spite of the austere design, Longo is comfortable to sit on thanks to an advanced upholstering technique. Longo is an ideal piece of furniture for entry halls, restaurants, schools, shops or waiting rooms. Eva is a charming and “sensual” little chair with an expression all of its own. With varying colors

Eva, a chair designed by Simo Heikkilä and Yrjö Wiherheimo.

and coverings, its mood can be transformed from cool to sensual, from alluring to quite proper. Orgatec in Cologne: Klaessons will be very visible at the huge furniture trade fair Orgatec, October 19–24, with a exhibit area of 140 m2. Longo and Eva will be on show alongside a new table range designed by KOMPLOT – Agenda Link

The world class event that every year showcases the very finest Italian and international furniture and furnishing designs, Saloni Internazionale del Mobile, and Euroluce will take place in Milan in April 2001, from April 4 to April 9, which is from Wednesday to Monday. 2001 marks the 40th anniversary of the Fair, a time to celebrate a successful story, today a landmark event for the world furniture industry. The winning combination of Salone del Mobile and Euroluce has reported records at the previous edition of the Fair: 165 000 visitors, including 76 000 from overseas, and 3 000 accredited members of the press. The biennal lighting show Euroluce will henceforth be held in odd years. The other two biennial events, Eurocucina and Eimu, the shows dedicated respectively to kitchen and office furnishings, will instead be held in even years. Their next appearance will therfore be at Saloni 2002.

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TAIWAN Grand Union Co. Ltd. P.O Box 11-48, Mucha Taipei Taiwan R.O.C Tel: +886 2 2662-7268 Fax: +886 2 2662-7258

Since August of this year Maria Lehmann has been in charge of export management, responsible for the development of existing markets and for finding new ones for Blå Station’s elegant Scandinavian furniture. Exports will increase by over 40% this year and the future continues to look bright. The most vigorous market at present is the Norwegian, though Canada, for instance, is showing great promise, following a contact established at IMM in Cologne earlier this year. Japan, which rose steeply at the beginning of the 1990s, slumped in conjunction with the fall of the Japanese economy in 1997. Happily, Blå Station’s associates in Japan are beginning to recover and today the outlook is more positive than it has been for a long time.

comfortable sofa group including table from B&B. In addition, furniture from Fritz Hansen has been chosen, including an armchair called “the Egg”, and a number of chairs and tables from Lammhults. Cinema seating in the lecture hall is from Giuliac while glassed-in areas are from Greenhouse. The reception desk has been spe-

cially designed to match the oak walls of the entrance area. “You can’t allow comfort and luxury to be peeled away in order to increase efficiency. You just can’t think in those terms. You ask how we choose our furniture. There are a number of factors that have to be taken into consideration – price, flexibility, performance and, of course, appearance is also an important function.” ERGONOMICS IS MOST IMPORTANT

“You can never ignore good ergonomics in a working area. And this includes lighting, noise and the choice of furniture. Generally speaking, I mean that if you choose a furniture item that costs twice as much as another, you don’t get one that is twice as good. No, as a rule it is three times as good! Investing in good design and top quality pays off in the end. “It’s a natural part of our job to reach a sound balance between various desires and needs. But no matter how well-designed the office environment is, nothing helps if management isn’t interested in its human capital, employee health and well-being. This is a central management issue just as is the question of breaking down hierarchies and “You ask how we choose our furniture. There are a number of factors that have creating a satisfactory working to be taken into consideration – price, flexibility, performance and, of course, climate.

JAPAN BEZONE 7-6-7-302 AKASAKA MINATO-KU TOKYO 107-0052 TEL: +81 3 3582 0570 FAX: +81 3 3582 1974 E-MAIL: tokyo@bezonejpn.com

NORWAY CANVAS HAFRSFJORDGT 11 N-0268 OSLO TEL: +47 22 55 82 55 FAX: +47 22 55 39 40 E-MAIL: kalle@canvas.no

SWITZERLAND W. HABERTHÜR INTERNATIONAL TRADING FLORASTRASSE 11. CH-4005 BASEL TEL: +41 (0)61-681 86 87 FAX: +41 (0)61-681 86 92 E-MAIL: w.haberthur@datacomm.ch

IFORM AB BLÅ STATION AB P.O Box 100 SE-296 22 Åhus. Sweden Tel: +46 44 24 90 70 Fax: +46 44 24 12 14 E-mail: info@blastation.se

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ENCLOSURE 33 SOUTHERN CROSS BUSINESS PARK BRAY CO.WICKLOW TEL: +353 1 276 50 00 FAX: +353 1 276 50 55 E-MAIL: info@enclosure.ie

“It’s extremely important for us architects that we work closely with our clients. The entire creative process in working near the client generates many new ideas. They have to tell us how they want their new office, how it is intended to work. “Then it’s up to us to combine these demands into complete solutions. It’s our job to collaborate both with technical, electrical, ergonomic and management consultants. It’s a complicated process and is based on the condition that you get to know your client. Short-cuts usually don’t pay off! “Sweden has come a long way in IT development compared with many other European countries. And this is reflected in Swedish IT companies’ roll as clients – a high level of professionalism even here. We architects use the same tools as within the world of IT – drawings, texts, images – and enjoy a comparable level of computerized technology. And this makes it easier for us to understand our clients,” Peter Sahlin concludes.

Facts & Figures Icon Medialab is one of the world’s leading consulting companies within the area of integrated electronic services and Internet. Their job is to help their clients take advantage of the new possibilities in network economy by creating new areas of operation, renewing present operations and finding new business solutions through the latest technology. Thanks to a global network, it is now possible to use multinational network trading strategies on local markets. Today, 2 200 persons are employed in 34 Medialabs in 19 countries. The company has increased its geographical scope via growth and acquisition. Six new Medialabs have been established in four new countries.

AUSTRIA PROFORM LASSERSTRASSE 10 A-5021 SALZBURG TEL: +43 (662) 87 04 02-0 FAX: +43 (662) 87 04 02-91 E-MAIL: moebel@proform.at PROFORM TÜRKENSTRASSE 17 A-1090 WIEN TEL: +43 1 319 71 07 FAX: +43 1 319 71 07-33 E-MAIL: moebel@proform.at

P.O. Box 5055 SE-200 71 Malmö, Sweden Tel: +46 40 30 36 10 Fax: +46 40 30 22 88 E-mail info@iform.net www.iform.net

Showrooms: Iform Davidshallsgatan 20 SE-211 45 Malmö, Sweden Iform Pipersgatan 28 SE-112 28 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 651 20 45 Fax: +46 8 651 20 44

SKANDINAVISCHE AGENTUREN Bernhard Blättler Senhüttenweg 1 CH-8165 Schleinikon, Switzerland Tel: +41 1 856 08 68 Fax: +41 1 856 17 88

TRANSAT Jean Yves Gueranger 16, rue Jean Bart FR-59000 Lille, France Tel: +33 3 20 54 01 01 Fax: +33 3 20 54 88 52

NORDHOUSE Ulf Persson Káplár-u 11 – 13 HU-1024 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36 1 316 28 55 Fax: +36 1 316 28 56

FAIREX S.R.O. Tony Shee Trojanova 18 CZ-1200 Praha 2, Czech Republic Tel: +420 2 24 91 94 84 Fax: +420 2 24 91 86 22

INREDA Frank Goodwin 71 Lower Camden Street Dublin 2, Ireland Tel/Fax: +353 1 476 03 62

TANNUM WERNER A.S. Stortingsgatan 30 NO-0161 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 23 11 58 70 Fax: +47 23 11 58 79

CASUARINA Fredrikinkatu 30 FI-00120 Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358 9 68 55 85 80 Fax: +358 9 68 55 85 85

BOL INTERIEUR

GARRY MONK CONTRACTS ATT: GARRY MONK 44 NAYLOR ROAD GB-LONDON N20 OHN TEL: +44 181 446 3518 FAX: +44 181 445 7385

Zoltán Renes Dirk Tersteeglaan 11 NL-1411 ME Naarden, Holland Tel: +31 35 683 26 41 Fax: +31 35 685 14 73

VAN LAAR AGENTUR HIMMELGEISTER LANDSTR. 167 D-405 89 DÜSSELDORF TEL: +49 211 75 74 43 FAX: +49 211 75 72 30 E-MAIL: vl@vanlaar.de

Garry Monk 44 Naylor Road London N20 0HN, UK Tel: +44 20 8446 35 18 Fax: +44 20 8445 73 85

Agents and subsidiaries:

AUSTRIA Gnesta GmbH Wilhelminenstrasse 11 1160 Wien Tel: +43 1 486 707016 Fax: +43 1 486 707070 e-mail: office@gnesda.com

BELGIUM Kinnarps NV S.A. Heide 15 B-1780 Wemmel Tel: +32 - 2 456 04 56 Fax: +32 - 2 456 04 44 e-mail: kinnarps@be.kinnarps.com

72 Wigmore Street W1H 9DL London, United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7935 2077/2088 Fax: +44 20 7224 2099.

LIMN CO. 290 Townsend Street San Fransisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. Tel: +1 415 543 54 66 Fax: +1 415 543 59 71

THE NIENKÄMPER STORE 300 King Street East Toronto Ontario, Canada M5A 1K4 Tel: +1 416 362 34 34 Fax: +1 416 362 38 43

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UKRAINE KINNARPS OY Turgenevskaya 16, ap. 57 252054 KIEV UKRAINE T./F. +380-44-216 0410 e-mail: kinnarps@iptelecom.net.ua

USA Kinnarps Office Furniture Inc. 8120 S.W.Nimbus Avenue Beaverton, OR 97008 Tel: +1 503 641 18 45 Fax: +1 503 641 21 57 e-mail: info@kinnarpsusa.com

Kinnarps Kontormöbler A/S Grinidammen 4,Postboks 93 N-1332 Österås Tel: +47 67 16 71 00 Fax: +47 67 14 97 66

POLAND Kinnarps DC Potamkin International Polska ul. Miedziana 11 00-835 Warszawa Tel: +48 22 654-64-73 Fax: +48 22 654 64 75 e-mail kinnarps@officedepot.pl

ESTONIA AS SANTOR Tartu mnt. 63/Hermanni 1, 2.korrus EE0001 TALLINN ESTONIA T. +372-6-115 466 F. +372-6-115 465 e-mail: santor@trenet.ee

FINLAND Kinnarps OY Kultasepänkatu 2 SF-04251 Kerava Finland Tel: +358 9 274 800 Fax: +358 9 274 802 00

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appearance, these are all important functions.” Peter Sahlin. 30

Kinnarps Nederland B.V. Postbus 434 Litauensestraat 11 NL-7200 AK Zutphen Tel: +31 5750 - 144 22 Fax: +31 5750 - 150 58 e-mail info@kinnarps.nl

CZECH REPUBLIC

1/F 34-38 Queens Road East Wanchai Hong Kong, China Tel: +852 2528 08 08 Fax: +852 2865 31 65 5 Purvis Stree #01-01 Talib Court, Singapore 188584 Tel: +65 333 91 15 Fax: +65 333 91 16

NETHERLANDS

Kinnarps of Sweden P.O.Box 88 Dubai United Arab Emirates Tel: +971 4 31 88 80 Fax: +971 4 31 86 57 e-mail: kinnarps@emirates.net.ae

Kinnarps DC Polus Center Szentmihályi út 131 1152 Budapest Tel: +36 1 419 4151/251 Fax: +36 1 419 42 18 e-mail:kinnarps@officedepot.hu

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Sashena Trading Co. Ltd. Block A, Vacoas Phoenix Industrial Estate Tel: +230 696 7983 Fax: +230 696 7986

Allscan Distributors Inc. 1918, 9th Avenue S.E. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G OV2 Tel: +1 403 262 4434 Fax: +1 403 233 2439

CANADA

Kinnarps A/S Egebaekvej 98 DK-2850 Naerum Tel: +45 70 15 10 10 Fax: +45 45 80 47 88 kinnarps.dk@kinnarps.se

ENGLAND

GERMANY

Kinnarps (UK) Ltd Comfort House, Poyle 14 Newlands Drive Colnbrook Slough SL3 ODX Tel: +44 1753 68 18 60 Fax: +44 1753 68 32 33 e-mail: sales@kinnarps.co.uk

Smedeholm 16 DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark Tel: +45 44 50 12 12 Fax: +45 44 50 12 11

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U.K.

UAB KINNARPS Pamenkalnio g. 23/5 2001 VILNIUS, LITHUANIA T. +370-2-225 117 F. +370-2-225 117 e-mail: kinnarps.vilnius@taide.lt

DENMARK

347 Fifth Avenue # 1009 New York, NY 10016, U.S.A. Tel: +1 212 213 00 09 Fax: +1 212 684 79 31

TRANSAT 24 RUE DE POSTES F-59000 LILLE Tel: +33 3 20 54 01 01 Fax: +33 3 20 54 88 52 E-MAIL: transat@transat.fr

LITHUANIA

SE-521 88 Kinnarp, Sweden Tel: +46 515 38 000 Fax: +46 515 33 701 e-mail: info@kinnarps.se

BONDO

COLLECTION CREATIVE APS. STORE KONGENSGADE 36-38 DK-1264 KÖPENHAMN TEL: +45 33 13 07 00, FAX: +45 33 13 27 00 E-MAIL: info@collectioncreative.dk

Peter Biehl Parkstr. 46 DE-65582 Diez, Germany Tel: +49 6432 24 88 Fax: +49 6432 25 27

KINNARPS AB

Christophe Bourg 32 Rue Blanche BE-1060 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 537 25 09 Fax: +32 2 537 34 91

A_RONNE

SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN INC.

MÖBEX

ZAO KINNARPS Ltd. Kazanskaya st. 44, office B 36 190031 St.Petersburg RUSSIA T./F. +7812-219 9294 e-mail: kinnarps@peterlink.ru

Fairex s.r.o. Trojanova 18 120 00 Praha 2 Czech Republic Tel: +420 2 24919560 Fax: +420 2 24918622 e-mail: fairex@friends.cz

Agents/Representatives; and some retailers:

FRANCE

RUSSIA

SIA KINNARPS Kr. Barona 13/15 - 31 LV1011 RIGA, LATVIA T. +371-7-288 895 F. +371-7-289 888 e-mail: kinnarps@apollo.lv

MAURITIUS

Marc Burkhalter Pasaje de Dona Carlota 8 ES-28002 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34 1 519 53 39 Fax: +34 1 519 53 38

SKANDIUM

Klaus Thomassen Rønne Allé 22 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Tel/Fax: +45 46 32 42 53

LATVIA

Monumentenstr. 23 DE-10965 Berlin, Germany Tel/Fax: +49 30 7889 91 02

SCANDESA

Iform Tokyo Office Adret Shibuya Honmachi 102 2-18-10 Honmachi, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 151-0071, Japan Tel: +81 3 33 78 41 47 Fax: +81 3 33 78 31 67

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KLAESSONS Head office and production: Klaessons Möbler AB Box 18/Vallgatan 43-45 SE-716 21 Fjugesta Tel: +46-585-816 00 Fax: +46-585-816 29 email: info@klaessons.com www.klaessons.com Export Sales Office in Gothenburg: World Trade Center Klaessons Möbler AB Box 5264/Mässans gata 10 SE-402 25 Göteborg Tel: +46-31-335-7522 Fax: +46-31-16 42 00 Scandinavian representatives:

NORWAY Vidar Ottesen AS Sköyen Design Center Drammensvn. 130 B NO-0277 Oslo Tel: +47-23-28 33 70 Fax: +47-23-28 33 71

DENMARK EH Möbler AS Postboks 640 DK-5270 Odense N Tel: +45-66-18 18 10 Fax: +45-66-18 18 99

FINLAND Martela Oy Strömbergintie 5 FIN-00380 Helsingfors Tel: +358-10-345 50 Fax: +358-10-345-5350 Outside Scandinavia: Please contact Klaessons for further information

MARKS PELLE VÄVARE AB Box 4039 SE-511 04 Kinnahult, Sweden Tel: +46 320 20 55 00 Fax: +46 320 20 55 44/45 E-mail: info@markspellevavare.se

MARKS PELLE VÄVARE GMBH Detlef Jung Jägerhausstrasse 70 DE-74074 HEILBRONN Tel. 07131-16 59 84 Fax. 07131-16 59 65 Auto 0173-657 77 17 E-mail: detlef_jung@t-online.de

JAPAN

DENMARK

NORWAY

BORKS ATELIER APS Anna Bork Hjortekærsvej 119A DK-2800 LYNGBY Tel. 45 93 91 22 Fax. 45 93 81 22 Biltlf. 20 27 85 89

REPRESENTATIVES/ EXHIBITIONS

AUSTRIA WIENER TEXTIL Franziskanerplatz 6 AT-1010 WIEN Tel. 01-513 43 31 Fax. 01-513 92 87

FRANCE

Oberarnsdorf 15 AT-5112 LAMPRECHTSHAUSEN Tel. 06274-77 071 Fax. 06274-77 072 E-mail: wiener.textil@magnet.at

EDMOND PETIT S.A. 18 Rue Pierre Grange ZI De la Pointe FR-94124 FONTENAY SOUS BOIS CEDEX Tel. 01-45 14 18 20 Fax. 01-48 76 66 22

BELGIUM

FINLAND

GIT SIT Gustaaf Callierlaan 231 BE-9000 GENT Tel. 09-224 01 00 Fax. 09-233 58 79

GERMANY MPV GMBH Sören Kragelund Am Haferbogen 21 DE-24969 GROßENWIEHE Tel. 04604-98 77 70 Fax. 04604-98 77 71 Auto 0172-420 66 93 E-mail: kragelund@t-online.de MARKS PELLE VÄVARE GMBH Heinz Linz Bedburger Str. 45 DE-41469 NEUSS Tel. 02131-17 79 03 Fax. 02131-10 31 73 Auto 0172-207 53 49 E-mail: heinz.linz@t-online.de

OY ORIENT OCCIDENT Ltd Ruukinkuja 2 FI-02320 ESPOO 32 Tel. 09-26 06 60 Fax. 09-801 12 27 E-mail: info@orientoccident.fi

GREAT BRITAIN Keith James P.O. Box 138 GB-NORTHWOOD, MIDDLESEX HA6 1UP Tel/Fax. 01923-840344 Mobile. 07785-254547

IRELAND FORM & LINE 63 Lower Beechwood Avenue Ranelagh IE-DUBLIN 6 Tel. 01-491 12 01 Fax. 01-491 12 02 E-mail: formline@indigo.ie

NORWAY KJELL MAEHLUM A/S Erling Skjalgsonsgate 21 NO-0267 OSLO Tel. 22-12 86 30 Fax. 22-12 86 40 E-mail: info@mahlum.no

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OFFECCT interiör ab Skövdevägen, Box 100 SE-543 21 Tibro Tel: +46 504 415 00 Fax: +46 504 125 24 www.offecct.se support@offecct.se

Show room: STALLET Storgatan 23 S-114 55 Stockolm Tel: +46 8 665 32 75

NORWAY: Sales manager Norway: Terje Klykken Tel: +47 69 15 33 80 mobile +47 91 78 76 23 terje.klykken@offecct.se

FINLAND Agent Finland: Rita Grotenfelt STANZA Oy Annankatu 24 FIN-00100 Helsinki Tel: +358 9 612 11 33 mobile +358 40 515 11 33 rg@stanza.pp.fi Agent Great Britain: S 21 Ltd Michael A. King Tel: +44 1254 30 60 21 sales@S21ltd.co.uk

HAN HAZEVOET INTERIEURSTOFFEN Prinsengracht 827 NL-1017 KB AMSTERDAM Tel. 020-638 20 30 Fax. 020-635 79 97 Mobile 0651-56 63 33

Vallgatan 1 Box 294 SE-571 23 NÄSSJÖ Tel: +46 380 55 53 00 Fax: +46 380 182 85 E-mail: info@rhform.se www.rhform.se

TEMA form Karl Rebsamen Felseggweg 1c CH-9247 HENAU Tel. 071-950 08 10 Fax. 071-950 08 12 Auto 079-353 55 23 E-mail: temaform@smile.ch

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BOX 340 SE- 573 24 TRANÅS SWEDEN PHONE: +46 (0)140 385600 FAX: +46 (0)140 385601 E-MAIL: info@materia.se www.materia.se

S-LINE OFFICE AB

BECKER ACROMA

Lertagsgatan 10 Box 11 SE-694 23 Hallsberg Sweden Tel: +46 582 120 70 Fax: +46 582 130 55 www.sline.se

Bellö, SE-570 32 Hjältevad Sweden Phone: +46-381 261 00 Fax: +46-381 261 95

Showrooms:

P O Box 2016, SE-195 02 Märsta Sweden Phone: +46-381 261 00 Fax +46-381 261 99

SWEDEN

DENMARK

Svensk Möbelscenter Storängsvägen 10 SE-115 95 Stockholm Tel: +46 666 20 00 Fax: +46 8 782 90 09

Becker Acroma A/S Nystedvej 5, DK-7400 Herning Phone: +45-97 21 61 11 Fax: +45-97 21 62 11

NORWAY

FINLAND

Skøen Design Center Drammensvn. 130B NO-0277 Oslo Norway Tel. +47 23 28 33 70 Fax: +47 23 28 33 71

NORWAY

SMD OFFICE DESIGN AB Box 49 SE-330 21 Reftele Sweden Tel: +46 371 207 60 Fax: +46 371 204 49 www.smdoffice.se info@smdoffice.se

GERMANY Smd Office Design GmbH Regerweg 10 DE-730 87 Boll Germany www.smdoffice.de smdoffice@t-online.de

GREAT BRITAIN

RH FORM AB

MATERIA AB

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VIDAR OTTESEN AS BERG STUDIO NOBELSGATE 18 NO- 0268 OSLO PHONE: +47 22554180 FAX: +47 22553710

NETHERLANDS

SWITZERLAND

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MATERIA TOKYO OFFICE TOSHIAKI TAKIGAMI SHIBUYA HONMACHI 102 2-18-10 HONMACHI SHIBUYA- KU JP- 151-00 TOKYO PHONE: +81 33 37 84 147 FAX: +81 33 37 83 167

Office & Showroom Regeringsgatan 12 Box 16234 SE-103 24 STOCKHOLM Tel: +46 8 545 212 30 Fax: +46 8 545 212 40 E-mail: info.rh.sthlm@rhform.se Södra Stånggatan 2 Box 1792 SE-581 17 LINKÖPING Tel: +46 13 12 17 90 Fax: +46 13 12 73 10 E-mail: info.rh.lkpg@rhform.se

ENGLAND

AGENTS/ REPRESENTATION

RH Form (UK) Upper Tulse Hill Trading Estate 5 Somers Place GB-London SW2 2AL Tel: +44 20 8674 4111 Fax: +44 20 8674 8887 E-mail: info@rhform.co.uk www.rhform.com

GERMANY

FRANCE

MÖBEX INTERNATIONALE AGENTUR PARKSTRAßE 46 D- 65582 DIEZ PHONE: +49 64322488 FAX: +49 64322527

RH Sièges Show room 12 rue de L´Aubrac FR-750 12 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 44 10 44 Fax: +33 1 43 44 11 44

HOLLAND

DENMARK

BOL INTERIEUR AGENTUREN B.V DIRK TERSTEEGLAAN 11 NL- 1411 SH HILVERSUM PHONE: +31 356832641 FAX: +31 356851473

RH Stolen Denmark Aps Åboulevarden 5 DK-1035 KØBENHAVN V Tel: +45 35 36 30 12

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Oy Becker Acroma Ab Kynttiläkuja 2, PL 12, FIN-00741 Helsinki Phone: +358-9 346 911 Fax: +358-9 346 912 00 A/S Becker Acroma Marenlundveien 2, Postboks 70, N-2020 Skedsmokorset Phone: +47-638 710 20 Fax: +47-638 771 81

POLAND Becker Acroma Polska Sp.z.o.o. ul. Owsiana 5, PL-62-052 Plewiska k/Poznan Phone: +48-61 867 68 18 Fax: +48-61 867 68 23

LITHUANIA UAB Becker Acroma Siltnamiy 26, LT-2043 Vilnius Phone: +370-2 448 791 Fax: +370-2 448 791

CZECH REPUBLIC Becker Acroma spol.s.r.o Druzstevní 56, 594 01 Velké Meziríci Phone: +420-619 501 411 Fax: +420-619 520 310

GREAT BRITAIN

Agents for 2001

Becker Acroma Ltd. Rookwood Way, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8PQ Phone: +44-1440 703 611 Fax: +44-1440 761 091

FRANCE

SPAIN

STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR

Sonia Schönstedt 18, avenue Général Mangin F-76016 Paris / France Tlf. +33-1-46 47 43 35 Fax +33-1-45 27 26 44 e-mail: sesb@wanadoo.fr Contact: Sonia Schönstedt, direktør

ITALY Extraexpo Via Giovanni da Udine 34 I-20156 Milano / Italia Tlf. +39-02 38 09 34 95 Fax +39-02 38 09 34 98 Contact: Morena Cambri

SPAIN Organizaciòn y Gestion Cami Nou, pta. 5 E-46910 Benetuser (Valencia) / España Tlf. +34-6-375 1906 Fax +34-6-375 2050 e-mail: ac@xpress.es Contact: Mr. Alexis Casañ

GREAT BRITAIN OTSA/Overseas Trade Show Agencies Ltd. 11, Manchester Square London WiM 5AB UK Tlf. +44-20 7886 3104 Fax +44-20 7886 3101 e-mail: matthew.benyon@montex.co.uk Contact: Mr. Matthew Benyon

GERMANY Ute Medrow International Trade Show Marketing & Consulting Pastoratsstr. 15 D-50997 Köln / Germany Tlf. +49-2233-280-297 Fax +49-2233-280-297 e-mail: umedrow@t-online.de Contact: Ms. Ute Medrow

Becker Acroma España S.A. Poligono Industrial, Foinvasa C/Can Tapiola, nave 13 ES-08110 Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona Phone: +34-93 575 04 40 Fax: +34-93 575 09 66

GERMANY Arti Holzlacke & Beizen GmbH Wasserstrasse 2-10, DE-42283 Wuppertal Phone: +49-202 574 70 Fax: +49-202 55 51 82

BELGIUM Arti Import Benelux NV Ambachtsweg 9, BE-9820 Merelbeke Phone: +32-9 252 43 64 Fax: +32-9 252 27 33

ITALY Oece Industrie Chimiche SpA. Via Volturno 96, 410 32 Cavezzo (MO) Phone: +39-0535 615 611 Fax: +39-0535 490 55

FRANCE Vernis Jacquelin S.A. Rue Boileau, Z.I. les “Prés l´Elie” 91530 Saint Chéron Phone: +33-1 60 81 13 00 Fax: +33-1 60 81 13 13

CANADA Becker Acroma Inc. P O Box 3660 Brantford, N3T 6H2 Ontario Phone: +1-519 758 15 08 Fax: +1-519 758 14 90

ASIA PACIFIC Becker Acroma Thailand Ltd. 283/85 Home Place Building, 16th Floor, Room 1606 Klongton-Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 Phone: +66-2 712 7554, +66-2 712 7555 Fax: +66-2 712 7556

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A new waterborne stain system, which mirrors and enhances the wood’s unique grain. Which offers new ways to achieve higher quality finishes in an environmentally sound manner. Natura Exclusive, from Becker Acroma, produces a distinct positive stain effect, as close to a lye-steeped stain as you can get, whatever the quality of the substrate. Where dark areas stay dark, and light areas light. Natura Exclusive is designed for spray application on pine and spruce, as well as veneers and planed wood. The system is 100% glycol-free, and is available in a delicately balanced range of colours, inspired by Nature’s own palette.

ENTER THE SCANDINAVIAN MARKET for furniture and interior design

An event by: Stockholmsmässan Stockholm International Fairs SE-125 80 Stockholm Phone: 08 -749 41 00 Fax: 08 -749 42 24 E-mail: kajsa.falck-torlegard@stofair.se www.stofair.se/furniture International co-ordinator: Bente Nielsen, International House. Phone: +45 32 473353. Fax: +45 32 503356. E-mail: bente.ifa@mail.tele.dk On our web-site you will find a complete list of our local agents.

Becker Acroma, Bellö, SE-570 32 Hjältevad, Sweden, Phone +46-381 261 00, Fax +46-381 261 95.

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