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Our next interactive slideshow features the most recent products by Danish design brand Hay, including furniture by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Hay‘s current selection of furniture, tableware and home accessories has been arranged as it might be found in the home and photographed against pink and blue backdrops.

“Our wish was to present the furniture in very simple set-up without losing any atmosphere,” the company’s founder Rolf Hay told Dezeen, “focusing on the furniture and products in the best possible way, and letting the coloured walls define the room and giving it the atmosphere.”

These items are set up to showcase individual products rather than link them together as a coherent range. “We don’t really consider it as a collection,” said Hay. “It’s very important for us that the products are independent.”

The products include the wooden Copenhague furniture designed by the Bouroullecs for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen.

The moulded plywood chairs comprise seat and back sections that form a crease where they join the A-shaped legs, which allow the chairs to stack.

Stools and tables are also designed with same double-leaf surfaces and angled legs.

Tables and desks in the Copenhague collection are also available with flat tops, either in veneer or coated with linoleum.

Among other furniture pieces in the range is a moulded polyurethane chair supported on wooden legs by Danish designer Hee Welling.

There’s also the blocky modular Mags sofa constructed from sprung upholstered foam, with high armrests and deep seats. This can be decorated with patchwork cushions covered in fabric by Danish textile company Kvadrat.

Hay’s accessories include a coat hanger formed from twisted steel wire and candle holders bent from steel or copper rods.

Notebooks, a desk tidy, a tape roll and a concertinaed cardboard folder for storing loose paper are all part of a stationery range.

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Stockholm 2014: here’s an interactive slideshow showcasing the latest collection from Finnish brand One Nordic Furniture Company, which features flat-pack designs specifically created for online retail.

All the items in One Nordic‘s range are designed to pack flat. The brand recently launched an online platform so the ordering and shipping process can all be managed on the web.

“It’s not innovative to ship effectively or to buy things online, but the idea of us developing every product in this collection with that brief is innovative,” One Nordic creative director Petrus Palmér told Dezeen at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.

He explained that furniture is lagging behind other online retail sectors due to the size of items such as sofas and dining tables.

“The furniture industry is still a bit behind the [online sales] developments of the rest of the world, thanks to the size of the products we’re dealing with,” said Palmér.

This is why all items in One Nordic’s collection can be broken down into parts and shipped more efficiently. “The products have to be adjusted for the world we live in today,” Palmér added.

All the designs unpack and assemble with minimal effort once they arrive. For example, the Bento chair by Palmér’s own design studio Form Us With Love is fixed together with just one clamp.

New items launched at Stockholm Furniture Fair include the Kuu pendant lamp by Jenny Stefansdotter and Kerstin Sylwan, developed from a design released last year.

The lampshade is formed from a structural textile that diffuses the light, and is pulled into a sphere using drawstrings at the top and bottom.

Nicole Losos and Nikolaus Kayser’s circular Vinkel mirror is split in two so the angled halves reflect different areas of a room. The mirror is delivered in two sections to take up as little space as possible.

Prints by fashion photographer Erik Wåhlström depicting photography shoots behind-the-scenes and still life images are also new additions.

Product lines that have been extended include Hai by Luca Nichetto, who has designed an ottoman to accompany his armchair with a folding backrest.

One Nordic’s inaugural Bento family now comes in a walnut frame and leather seat, plus dining and conference tables have been added.

The Lift shelving system by Steffan Holm has been created as a modular piece so it can be formed into a giant storage unit and mounted on the wall or stood on the floor.

One Nordic founder Joel Roos told Dezeen that the way design is sold to the public is “stuck” in the past during an interview last year.

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