Hasta La Ideas

Milan 2014: steel tubes slot into an oak base to create this clothes rack by Swedish firm Note Design Studio, which will debut in Milan.

Note Design Studio‘s Plateau storage unit for Spanish company Punt was designed for storing outerwear such as coats and footwear.

“In Scandinavia it is very common to take off your shoes when you come home and there is always a problem with where to put them,” Cristiano Pigazzini of Note Design Studio told Dezeen. “Everyday stuff like shoes and bags in the hallway or sleeping room that lands on the floor looks messy and out of order.”

Two white steel bars are bent to create rails for hanging garments and accessories. An oak shelf to place footwear on hovers above the ground, punctured by the rails that also form the feet.

“When the same stuff is placed on a podium or a plateau it suddenly has another value,” said Pigazzini. “The function of the plateau is to elevate your belongings from the floor and to create order in chaos.”

The two rails are different heights, offset and sitting one in front of the other. The larger includes a circular tray for storing small items on one side.

The design will be exhibited on Punt’s stand, Hall 6 Stand E22, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan from 8 to 13 April.

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The wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table.

The low table was formed by continuing the ash wood platform out from one end of the sofa, which is part of Note‘s Rise collection designed for Swedish furniture brand Fogia.

“The integrated side table becomes a bridge between the piece of furniture and the rest of the room,” said the designers. “A surface for a still life, a favourite book, plants or whatever you choose to have close at hand.”

Rounded soft cushions covered in quilted upholstery sit on top of the base. The collection is named Rise because the seat backs are shaped to resemble the sun coming up over the horizon.

Note created the range for use in both domestic and commercial settings. The high back is designed to shield the sitters from an open-plan office space that could be situated behind.

“It’s a sofa with is own expression,” Note’s Cristiano Pigazzini told Dezeen. “We got inspired by the shape of the rising sun to create a piece of furniture that stand alone, a elegant centrepiece for both home and public spaces.”

The sofas are available with or without arms, and the range also includes a footstool with a matching base and fabric.

The series will be on show at the Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair and Note’s open exhibition at the Old Luma Factory during Stockholm Design Week, which starts on Monday.

Photographs are by Mathias Nero.

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Stockholm 2013: Swedish studio Note has designed a domed table lamp that is dimmed by rotating a wing at its base.

Created for Swedish brand Örsjö Belysning, the translucent blown glass shade gradually becomes fully illuminated as the small handle is swept 180 degrees around a central axis.

The light comes with either a brass wing and black conical steel stand, or the whole base in white or red.

The Vinge table lamps were shown at Note Design Studio‘s exhibition space during Stockholm Design Week earlier this month.

They also displayed their porcelain and wood pendant lamps and lights shaped like grain silos by Zero during the event.

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Swedish firm Note Design Studio devised a set of mobile metal trolleys to display shoes at this store for footwear brand Camper.

Display furniture at the shop in Malmö, Sweden, is made of perforated metal painted in pastel shades, and features wheels and handles for easy maneuvering when the shop is reconfigured.

The stockroom at the back of the space comprises 2000 shoe boxes housed in an archive of rolling bookshelves on rails, clad with mirrors on the ends and operated with big red winding handles.

The space also features an arched mirror leant against one wall, a cluster of Note Design Studio’s Trapets for Swedish brand Zero and their Bolt stool for French brand La Chance.

The walls are painted in dark grey to contrast with Camper‘s distinctive red branding.

“We created a space that conveyed the wayward energy in many of the Camper shoes, but still an environment where the products remained in focus,” said Cristiano Pigazzini of Note Design Studio. “Together, the various objects create a calm, inviting whole that can be easily altered just by manual power.”

See Note Design Studio’s collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips in our earlier story.

Camper often work with high-profile designers on their stores, and collaborations in the last year include Shigeru Ban, Nendo and Studio Makkink & Bey. See all our stories about Camper retail design »

Photos are by Felix Gerlach.

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Stockholm 2012: Note Design Studio present a collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips at Stockholm Design Week this week.

The Marginal Notes series was developed from doodles the team made in the margins of their sketchbooks and notebooks over the year, revisited and worked through to physical objects.

Pieces include benches resempling logs on a sawbuck, a lamp like a butterfly net plus storage boxes and shelves based on cages for trapping specimines.

This is the second Marginal Notes series by Note Design Studio – see last year’s here.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February and you can see all our stories about it here.

Photos are by Mathias Nero.

Here are some more details from Note Design Studio:

Marginal Notes 2012 – Collection
In collaboration with Lerch Träinredningar
Stockholm Design Week February 8-10

The Excursion

We went deep into the forest to explore, measure and collect. With warm clothes, good shoes and woolen caps to protect us, we collected samples and took notes. Butterfly nets and soil sifters worked hard to catch the tiniest living things. When all our cages and boxes were filled we went looking for a shaded glade. With tents, mosquito screens, and some logs to sit on we set up a base camp for the night. After a long expedition, we now had plenty to look through back home.

For the second year (over a cup of coffee) we examined our note books in search of the ideas in the margin, those unique sketches that pop out when you look again, the ones you just need to realise.
Many seemed to have a common theme that we simply called “Base Camp”; the simplistic materials and shapes of scientific field expedition tools adapted to stand wear and tear. Screens, filters, cages – to keep things inside, to let things through – were transformed into a few different pieces. Objects that separate, structure and sort Nature (or space) into understandable amounts. Other ideas connected more to the culture of exploration.

After intense discussions, a few eventually left the paper and materialized into the physical world. Just like last year, we ended up with a diverse collection of colours, shapes, materials and expressions; just the way we like it.

A biologic excursion, why did we end up there? We think it may be the inqusitive approach: to explore your surroundings, to find the beauty and detail in them, to find the respect for them, and to find a way to interact in a fair way with them.

Tuck

We came across a picture of a bearded man in a choral red tuque (pronounced “tuck”) – or burglar beanie hat – and the color caught our attention. The hat became poufs to sit on, and the their edges were folded just like the edges of the hat.  It added the function of a pocket for magazines and such, something that made us like the piece even more.

Sifter

A gigantic sifter in the center of an excavation site, turned out to be a tall and handsome coat-hanger. Well, we discussed for a long while if it should work as a lamp or a clothes-hanger, but the first thing that comes to mind is usually the best. The net in the sifter helps with the catching of your keys falling out of your pockets, or just as a basket for your hats and gloves.

Nour

Alexis´ girlfriend Maryam came by the studio, and showed us her fascinating multi-colored origami polyhedra. We thought they would look interesting with a light inside, and a process of finding a paper with the right properties ensued. We gave the many sheets the right play of colours and patterns, and then Maryam put them all together by hand.

Mosquito

We needed backdrops for our exhibition, and with all the time we’ve spent searching for inspiration in the worlds of fieldtrips, excursions and excavations, we had the image of an insect screen in our minds. It is the perfect frame to make things in front of (or behind) it look even better.

Peep

How can boxy storage furniture let more light through? We went for making their walls more transparent. After some material tests, we had a colorful group of characters, each with different sizes and functions. They hold your things, and you can decide what you want to show and what not to. The “Keep” boxes complement the Peeps perfectly.

Keep

A frame for display, like a cage in the zoo. Traps to keep things inside and sometimes let things out of. Simple wooden cube boxes where you decide how much you want to show or not. Some have an open side, others have perforated sliding lids really hard to open from the inside.

Settler

To fell a tree, and to cut it up into useful pieces. A thing of pride for a lumberjack or a settler building their first cabin. The iconic shape of a log on a sawbuck inspired these benches, since a dead tree in the forest is really the best
place for a short rest.

The Catch

Gotcha! A firefly in a butterfly net was the visual cue that led up to this swing-arm lamp. Through its central pivot-point it can be swiveled around the room and shine a light wherever necessary. Also, it really catches the light.

About Note:

To note something, to get noted: we are named after what we try to achieve.

We like to pay attention to our surrounding, and try to create things that make others to do that as well.. By looking at what is unique in every project and emphasizing that, we transform non-material values into tactile objects and spaces. We work within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design and design management. Maybe we can help you out.

Us: Alexis Holmqvist, Susanna Wåhlin, Johannes Carlström, Kristoffer Fagerström and Cristiano Pigazzini.

A big thanks for the success of this project go to Lerch Träinredningar who have helped us throw the all process with their knowledge for construction and materials.