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Stockholm 2013: Swedish studio Front has designed a collection of glassware with frosted bottoms for Danish brand Stelton.

Inspired by ice forming on the outside of a window, Front has created an ice bucket, two glasses and a carafe with a rounded cork stopper.

The simple vessels have curved translucent bases that gradate into clear glass halfway up.

We’ve previously featured a coffee pot designed by Paul Smith for Stelton‘s 50th anniversary.

Other stories from Stockholm Design Week include blown-glass sculptures that look like trees and an installation of glass objects and robotic arms.

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Stockholm 2013: Japanese design studio Nendo made a mountain range from laser-cut foamboard at the entrance to the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which ends tomorrow (+ slideshow).

As the Guest of Honour at this year’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, Nendo was invited to create a large-scale installation in the entrance hall to mark the start of the exhibition.

The designers laser-cut 80 sheets of five-millimetre-thick foamboard and pulled them out into tall loops to form rows of softly curving partitions.

Above: photograph by Dezeen

The partitions were then arranged in the space alongside matching white lamps and aluminium chairs, which resemble some earlier furniture by Nendo such as the Thin Black Lines Chair.

Above: photograph by Dezeen

Nendo also tried to minimise the installation’s environmental impact by cutting the sheets of foamboard on site so that they could be delivered on just one truck.

Also in Stockholm this week, Nendo unveiled an installation of 30 lamps made from modular parts in collaboration with Swedish lighting brand Wästberg.

We’ve been reporting on product launches and events in Stockholm all week, such as brass coat hooks and flower pots made by a 400-year-old Swedish brassworks and an installation of robotic arms and delicate glass – see all news and design from Stockholm 2013.

Other Nendo products launched recently include bowls so thin they quiver in the wind and a collection of furniture inspired by splintered wood– see all design by Nendo.

Above: photograph by Joakim Blockstrom

Photographs are courtesy of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, except where stated.

Here’s some more information from Nendo:

Nendo has been selected as the Guest of Honour of the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2013

80 sheets of mountains / Guest of Honour Installation

An installation created for the entrance hall for the main exhibition space at the Stockholm International Furniture Fair 2013, at which we were honoured to be the Guest of Honour.

We laser-cut and stretched 80 sheets of 3mm aluminium into a set of partitions shaped like mountains, and arranged them to create a landscape of snow-capped mountain ranges in the space. It expresses the way design expands, starting from a single small idea – a method at the basis of our design philosophy.

We also wanted to minimise the exhibition’s environmental impact. We stretched the steel sheets on site so that the delivery only needed one truck, and the sheets could be flattened for clearing from the site and recycled.

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Stockholm 2013: robotic arms move across a landscape of delicate glass objects at this installation inside Stockholm’s Skeppsholmen Caverns (+ slideshow).

Above: photo by Ann Wåhlström

Glass Elephant is an installation of glass pieces by Swedish designers inside the grotto-like Skeppsholmen caverns belonging to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

Above: glass objects by Ann Wåhlström

Each designer’s collection is paired with an industrial robot carrying out tasks such as brushing the objects with a feather duster, shining a spotlight on them or gently wobbling them.

Above: glass objects by Carina Seth Andersson

Participating designers include Whatswhat, Magnus Elebäck and Chris Martin of Massproductions, Note Design Studio, Johannes Carlström and Åsa Jungnelius.

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

“I wanted to personify the robots, to make them as much human as machine,” says Jungnelius. “They could be about to engage in some kind of jerky wrestling match.”

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

The objects are glamourised consumer items, she adds. “The desire for material things is universal, but what exactly do we become without our fetishes and the props we surround ourselves with? Cave people?”

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

The exhibition also includes work by Simon Klenell and John Astbury, Ann Wåhlström, Carina Seth Andersson and Katja Pettersson.

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

Designed by Stockholm-based studio TAF Arkitekter, the exhibition is a collaboration between Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and ABB and is open until 9 February at the caverns – called Bergrummen – on Skeppsholmen, Svensksundsvägen 5.

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

Also in Stockholm this week, Swedish lighting brand Wästberg unveiled an installation of 30 lamps by Japanese designers Nendo – see more design installations on Dezeen.

Above: glass objects by Simon Klenell

We’ve reported on lots of products at Stockholm Design Week so far, including a chair that can be dressed up in an assortment of garments and a tiered spun metal lamp – see all products and news from Stockholm Design Week.

Here’s some more information from the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair:

Glass Elephant – fragile glass and heavy industrial robots in a poetic installation

An elephant in a china shop? No – just heavy industrial robots in a landscape of glass. As part of Stockholm Design Week 4-10 February 2013, Glass Elephant, a design installation in the borderland between industrial design, craftsmanship and performance, is on show in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities’ Skeppsholmen Caverns.

Glass Elephant is a unique, creative collaboration between Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and ABB.

“The purpose of the installation is to diversify and vitalise Stockholm Design Week’s image as an innovative and dynamic meeting place for the best in Scandinavian design. We want to create inspiring experiences and added value for both industry professionals and interested members of the public,” explains Cecilia Nyberg, Event Manager of Stockholm Design Week and Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which acts as the hub around which Design Week has developed in the last decade.

The exhibition explores the properties of glass as material and muse, and tells a story about the meeting of contrasts. Gossamer glass meets robot arms of steel and the advanced tactile technology of the hand meets the indefatigable precision of the machine in a floating, inquisitive interplay. The exhibition architecture has been designed by TAF Arkitekter.

“Our basic concept originates in the cavern setting, which is completely without natural light. We want to emphasise the existing space and have added what was not already there. So the installation design has windows as a theme – they are symbolic, as you can’t see out,” says Gabriella Gustafson, TAF Arkitekter.

The work of some of Sweden’s most trendsetting designers is featured in Glass Elephant, including Åsa Jungnelius:

“I’ve chosen to concentrate on the rock and the forces living within it. That’s why I wanted to personify the robots, to make them as much human as machine. They could be about to engage in some kind of jerky wrestling match. There’ll be a number of glass objects around the robots, fetishes from the consumer society, including a giant pink diamond. This is intended to create a somewhat abrasive image of the love of consumerism, something that’s in the process of changing. The desire for material things is universal, but what exactly do we become without our fetishes and the props we surround ourselves with? Cave people?” wonders Åsa Jungnelius.

Other designers taking part are Ann Wåhlström; Carina Seth Andersson; Katja Pettersson; Magnus Elebäck and Chris Martin, Massproductions; Johannes Carlström, Note Design Studio; Simon Klenell and John Astbury, Whatswhat.

The installation is open to the public 5-9 February 12-6 pm and is located in the Skeppsholmen Caverns, the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

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Stockholm 2013: these porcelain and wood pendant lamps were created by Stockholm-based Note Design Studio for Italian design brand Ex.t.

The Fuse lamps by Note Design Studio for Ex.t combine a porcelain shade with a wooden pendant holder, and are available in two sizes and three colours.

The lamps will be on show during Stockholm Design Week at Note Open 2013, a pop-up exhibition space in the old Luma bulb factory, at Ljusslingan 1, until 9 February.

Other products launching in Stockholm this week include a chair that can be dressed up in an assortment of garments and a cluster of blown glass trees – see all products shown at Stockholm Design Week 2013.

We’ve featured lots of products by the same designers, including an aluminium lamp inspired by a circus trapeze and a herringbone-patterned architect’s desk – see all products by Note Design Studio.

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Photographs are by Mathias Nero.

Here’s some more information from the designers:

Fuse

Inspired by traditional Italian craftsmanship and mixed with Nordic simplicity, Fuse is a lamp in which the tactility of the materials plays an essential role. The result is a soft porcelain pendant lamp accentuated by a wooden pendant holder that together emulate the warm glow created within each cylindrical shade. Available in two sizes and three colours, there’s a style for every taste.

The FUSE Pendant Lamps will be on show at Note Open 2013, our new concept for this year Stockholm Design Week, in collaboration with Fabege (www.fabege.se), a pop-up office and exhibition space in the quite unusual location of the old Luma bulb factory. Here we will show this year’s great collaborations with Zero, Nola, Mitab, Örsjö belysning, Ex-t, Seletti, Boxit Design and Zilenzio. The space will be open to the public 9 – 18 hrs every day Mon 4th-Sat 9th of February.

Title: Fuse
Object: Pendant lamps
Client: Ex.t
Material: Wood/ceramic
Year: 2013
Art Direction: Note
Location: Strandhuset Luma Stockholm

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Stockholm 2013: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate a talk about the future of designers and commerce at the Form Us With Love market tomorrow evening as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Form Us With Love will host the panel discussion at their exhibition at Birger Jarlsgatan 15, Stockholm from 6pm – 6:45pm on 5 February.

Fairs will lead the discussion titled Commerce, Communication and Inspiration, between Form Us With Love, Tictail co-founder Siavash Ghorbani, One Nordic CEO Joel Roos, designer Karin Wallenbeck and Residence editor-in-chief Hanna Nova Beatrice.

Nova Beatrice’s new book Behind the Scenes – Stories from the Design Industry will be launched the same day and includes contributions from Fairs and other established design writers.

Themes from the book will also be discussed by Nova Beatrice, Fairs and Strelka Press director Justin McGuirk in a talk moderated by Disegno editor-in-chief Johanna Agerman Ross called Designology – the art of communicating design, at 2:45pm on 5 February during The Hello! Show at Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Form Us With Love will launch tiered spun-metal lamps during Stockholm Design Week, which takes place until 10 February – see all our coverage of the event so far here.

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