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Product news: these large, modular, compressed-felt lamp shades by Stockholm studio Form Us With Love are designed to create a cosy environment around a table (+ slideshow).

Seams folded outward around the edge of each panel are connected with small pegs to form the Hood modular lamp shades, which Form Us With Love designed for Swedish lighting company Ateljé Lyktan.

Three different sections are used to create the shades: four corner panels are attached to create a dome, then the shape can be extended by adding curved side or flat top sections.

These formations create vautled coverings that are circular, oblong or chamfered-square shapes in plan.

The light sources covered in acrylic domes hang from thin wires connected to the ceiling wherever four sections meet.

Hood was launched at the Form Us With Love market at Stockholm Design Week last month, during which the studio also presented spun metal lamps for One Nordic.

They’ve also designed a menswear store where accessories are displayed like tools and vases comprised of quartz compound slabs.

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Hood is a sheltering lamp that creates both room and light. Designed by Form Us With Love as a voluminous illumination shield as well as a modular LED pendant light, the pendant is addressing a modern atmosphere issue.

Much like the recent Plug lamp, Hood is built on necessity. Once again bringing a dual function light, Hood meets the basic desire of shutting things out and concentrating light on secluded areas like work-, conference- or dining tables. At the same time, the three-piece modular function lets you build the Hood to whatever size you need. Starting with basic corner units, one can add the compressed industrial felt sheets to scale the pendant for an extensive illuminating form.

“The Hood lamp is more than a lamp. Itʼs a piece of furniture – the size and material has an interesting effect on the atmosphere, making the piece feel so much more than just a pendant lamp”, says Form Us With Love.

The work on the Hood lamp began three years ago at the Form Us With Love studio. The challenge was to confront the awkwardness of today’s overly undressed communal areas. The solution was found when trying to absorb the focus around the conference table in the design studio. “Open areas become the ultimate flexibility, but emotionally it is not always preferred. In Scandinavia, most offices are too bare and you only have your laptop screen as your protective shield. Hood is built around the emotional value of a shelter, where the intimate room is protected, letting you keep the landscape view”, says Form Us With Love.

“The desire to enable people to improve their quality time by creating a room in a larger room, is much more than merely illuminating things. Comfort should be for everyone. When you sit under the hood you relax and start to think differently, protected by the form and provided with the warm light you feel at ease”, Form Us With Love concludes.

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London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year’s Stockholm Design Week.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Raw Edges used a selection of 20 Kvadrat textiles to make the 1500 ribbons that surround the display stand, which they called The Picnic, at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.

The wooden structure, which was made with Douglas fir from Danish flooring company Dinesen, used angled panels to display fabric swatches.

The stand was intended to evoke “a wooden cabin, soft roof tiles, fish skin and a picnic under a weeping willow,” according to the designers.

Raw Edges was founded by Israeli designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay after they graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2006.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Other projects by the duo we’ve featured on Dezeen include a shelf that splits in two to form a desk and a cork light fitting that lets you attach your own paper shade – see all design by Raw Edges.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Photographs are by Joël Tettamanti, except where stated.

The Picnic by Raw Edges

Renowned design duo Raw Edges has designed the Kvadrat stand for the Stockholm Furniture 2013. The Picnic features a massive wooden construction of Dinesen Douglas Fir and a textile installation consisting of 1,500 straps made out of a selection of twenty different Kvadrat textiles.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

The designers envisioned recreating a picnic in an enchanted forest atmosphere. Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay about the concept: “wooden cabin, soft roof tiles, fish skin and picnic under a weeping willow, all mixed in a massive pot with Kvadrat swatches. Served within a commercial fair with our aspiration to create a bit of relaxing surreal situation but very warm welcoming.”

The stand is built out of two main elements: the wooden structure and the textile straps hanging from the ceiling. The wooden structure functions as display for the Kvadrat swatches and corresponds with the appearance of a wooden cabin. Made from Douglas Fir from the Danish floor company Dinesen, the horizontal wooden panels have been angled in such a way so it can hold the textile samples allowing the visitors a closer look. The impressive textile installation resembles vertical roof tiles and create a three dimensional volume. Functioning as a space divider it was inspired byweeping willow trees, creating an intimate space within the big exhibition hall.

About Raw Edges

Raw Edges is a London-based design studio founded by Israeli designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay. The duo, who attended the Royal College of Art together, collaborate on ideas and have complementary interests: whereas Yael Mer’s primary focus is on turning two-dimensional sheet materials into functional forms, Shay Alkalay is fascinated by how things move, function and react. Their output, which is the product of relentless experimentation, includes lamps, shelving, seating, flooring and museums installations.

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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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Stockholm 2013: Berlin designers Osko+Deichmann exhibited the latest development in their line of kinked tubular steel chairs at Stockholm Furniture Fair.

The Superkink armchairs and sofas were produced using the same folding technique as Osko+Deichmann‘s previous sharply bent chairs such as Kink and the colourful Straw chairs, but uses larger 35 millimetre tubing.

Fabric wraps around the arms whilst an upholstered padded back and seat are propped up by the angular frame.

Other products by Swedish brand Blå Station on Dezeen include a wooden chair with leg warmers and a chair made from a single sheet of felt.

Stockholm Furniture Fair took place from 5 to 9 February and other products launched there were a chair that looks like it’s wearing a cape by Nendo, frosted glassware by Front and pendant lamps by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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Stockholm 2013: talks at last week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair were held beneath an installation of 11,000 patterned paper sheets by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi.

Wingårdh and Saksi staggered the pieces of paper up from the corners of the rectangular area to create a dome accessed by an arch on each side.

Saksi’s illustrations covered the underside of the A3 sheets so the patterns could only be appreciated from underneath. At each corner the paper was threaded onto lengths of string, which were hung closer together than the length of the sheets so each piece of paper buckled into a wave.

Towards the centre of the dome, multiple layers were printed with the same illustration to create a 3D visual effect when viewed from directly underneath. Around the periphery, columns of white sheets extended up to the ceiling to create translucent walls.

Inside, mirrored table tops balanced on a total of 700,000 sheets of A4 paper in rows facing a larger, higher table at one end for a panel to sit at.

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discussed topics from a new book he contributed to at the space last week.

Several installations were unveiled during Stockholm Design Week including robotic arms that danced around glass objects, plus Nendo’s foamboard mountains and modular lamps – see all our coverage of the event here.

Photos are by Tord-Rikard Söderström.

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Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi have joined creative forces to design the installation that will set the stage for talks on design and architecture at the fair. They have each started out from their own perspective while adhering to a shared vision.

“From the very beginning, the idea has been to create a spatiality for communication in which furniture and design have a presence in words and images, as well as a physical presence. To explain the concept behind an item of furniture, what you were thinking and how you arrived at the design, gives a deeper dimension to the object. This is something we’ve wanted to focus on more this year and so we’re giving furniture companies a chance to introduce themselves, their products and designers by communicating through a new program item we call Show ‘n Tell,” explains Sanna Gebeyehu, the producer of the project.

The design suggests a church interior, with rows of high tables in front of an ‘altar’ where panels hold sway. The table tops are made of a mirror laminate and balance on stacks of A4 paper sheets – 700,000 in total.

The entire dome-like structure consists of stacks of paper sheets that hang from the roof in a Venetian blind-like construction. The lowest sheet in each stack carries part of a gigantic illustration that forms the dome-shaped ceiling.

Preparations for construction have been going on for months and the actual raising of the dome is something of a never-ending task.

“Precision in all the preliminary work is crucial. 1,120 stacks consisting of a total of 11,000 A3 sheets in 44,000 points of attachment are being installed across an area of 200 sqm and are then gradually hoisted up,” reports Sanna Gebeyehu.

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