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Stockholm 2014: the founders of Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have launched BAUX, a new brand taking construction materials such as insulation and turning them into architectural features (+ slideshow).

Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér of Form Us With Love have teamed up with entrepreneurs Johan Ronnestam and Fredrik Franzon to take conventional architectural products and make them more visually appealing.

“To talk about beauty and construction materials is almost unheard of,” Palmer told Dezeen. “We think that building materials pose one of the best opportunities for design and design thinking.”

Their idea was to use materials that would normally be hidden, such as sound and heat insulation, and rework them as elements that can contribute to a design feature.

“Design hasn’t been an important factor [in this industry], but what we’re seeing now is that buyers such as architects or interior designers are actually asking for design values in materials that are normally purely functional,” Palmér explained. “Currently no one is really meeting those demands.”

The brand’s inaugural product is a type of acoustic panel called wood wool. Made of spruce wood, cement and water, the sound-absorbent material also regulates heat and moisture.

Panels of wood wool are usually covered up beneath other surface finishes, but BAUX hopes architects and designers will create decorative feature walls using the colourful modular elements the company has formed from the raw material.

“At Form Us With Love we did a project with the company that makes the material a couple of years back and it was very well received,” said Palmér. “The problem was that the company had trouble coping with the demand, they were used to local demand and serving local clients, and they couldn’t manage.”

BAUX now handles the distribution. The brand takes the material from the manufacturer, cuts it into six new shapes in two sizes and sprays them in six different colour palettes.

The panels can be backed with magnetic pads to attach them to a metal base surface, so they can be rearranged and replaced.

Pettersson, Löfgren and Palmér set up their Stockholm studio Form Us With Love in 2005. BAUX was launched during this year’s Stockholm Design Week, which continues until Sunday.

Here’s some more information sent us by the BAUX team:

Let us present BAUX!

BAUX is founded on the belief that building materials should be surprisingly functional and remarkably beautiful. BAUX designs, produces and markets construction materials that meet the contemporary expectations of architects, engineers and builders – without compromising safety and environmental standards.

BAUX is a joint venture between entrepreneurs Johan Ronnestam and Fredrik Franzon and the founding members of design studio Form Us With Love: Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér.

“We think building materials is one of the most exciting design opportuniites out there right now, we’re here to explore an area where design values hasn’t been present before” – says the founding partners of BAUX.

The BAUX Träullit collection of wood wool acoustic panels is a canny combination of form and function. Available in a range of vibrant colours, the BAUX Träullit collection combines excellent sound absorption with a natural capacity for heat and moisture regulation.

BAUX Träullit panels can be combined to create remarkable structural patterns for residential, industrial or public spaces. Benefits include lower energy costs, a reduced environmental impact and a stable indoor climate.

Designed by Swedish design studio, Form Us With Love, the BAUX Träullit collection features six different geometrical shapes, available in two sizes and five colour sets, offering over 240 creative variations! Let’s build!

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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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Here is some more text from the designers:

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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Stockholm 2012: Stockholm studio Form Us With Love will launch a tiered spun metal lamp for Finnish brand One Nordic at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week.

The Levels lamps are made in three parts that stack inside each other for transportation but can be assembled without tools.

The folded-over rim of each part allows the shades to hang from each other.

“At the factory the metal sheets used for the lampshades are spun and pushed around a rotating mandrel until they reach perfect circle forms,” say Form Us With Love.

“At the very end of the spin you give the shades a fold to support the structure,” they continue. “The spun fold gave us the idea of making the different sized shades hang from one another, allowing for the parts to be stacked when transported.”

Different sizes of shade can be combined in various configurations and they come in three colours: white, grey and copper.

Positioning themselves somewhere between high design and flatpack, One Nordic launched at last year’s Stockholm Furniture fair with the aim of “shipping as little air as possible” while still making their products simple and intuitive to assemble.

Form Us With Love created the Bento chair for One Nordic’s first collection, which assembles with one large bolt under the seat rather than fiddly screws or glue.

Other designs by Form Us With Love on Dezeen include a lamp with an electrical socket integrated into the base, a menswear shop where clothes are displayed like tools and a watch for new Swedish brand TID Watches, which you can purchase from Dezeen Watch Store.

Stockholm Furniture Fair runs from 5 to 9 February and you can see our stories about the event here.

Photographs are by Jonas Lindström.

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Stockholm designers Form Us With Love have integrated an electrical socket into the base of their latest lamp so there’s always a socket to hand when you want to charge a phone or laptop.

Intended for a hotel lobby or bedside table, the Plug Lamp for Swedish brand Ateljé Lyktan has a powder-coated aluminium base and opal blown-glass top.

Form Us With Love presented the lamp alongside other new releases at their Form Us With Friends exhibition during Stockholm Design Week last month – read more about it here.

Photographs are by by Jonas Lindström.

Here are some more details from Form Us With Love:

Plug Lamp from ateljé Lyktan

In today’s society, it seems like we’re always in need of a plug socket to charge our computer, tablet or smartphone. ateljé Lyktan presents a solution to this everyday problem – a lamp with a bonus of an electrical socket.

The design studio Form Us With Love came up with a simple idea based on the new need in today’s society of constantly needing to recharge computers and smartphones. Besides giving you an electrical socket, the Plug Lamp also gives a pleasant aesthetic to the process of recharging.

By integrating the socket in the lamp it also takes away that annoying process of searching for a socket or having to unplug something in order to access an electrical point, says Form Us With Love.

The Plug Lamp has a bulbous shape and a base in moulded and powder-coated aluminium. Here the plug socket is displayed centrally, making it a decorative detail. The light itself is concealed by an opal glass shade and the lamp is dimmable.

The Plug Lamp is great for public places like hotels, cafés and restaurants where people usually are in search for a place to recharge their electrical devices. But it’s also perfect for the home, for example on the bedside table, says Thomas Holm, Marketing Director, ateljé Lyktan.

Available colours: Green, red, grey, black, white

ateljé Lyktan was founded in 1934 by Hans and Verna Bergström. The company moved from Helsingborg to Åhus in 1936 where it still operates in the spirit of the founders. ateljé Lyktan makes lighting for both outdoor and indoor use with a focus on Swedish design. ateljé Lyktan is a part of the Fagerhult Group.

Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love present five new projects at the Swedish Museum of Architecture as part of Stockholm Design Week this week.

The work on show includes their Bento chair for new brand One Nordic Furniture Company (see our story here) pendant lamps for Design House Stockholm, dividers for Swedish brand Abstracta, a lamp for Swedish firm Ateljé Lyktan and vases for Spanish company Cosentino Silestone.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February. See all our coverage here.

Photos are by Jonas Lindström.

Here are some more details from Form Us With Love:

Form Us With Friends 2012

For the third year in a row, Form Us With Love presents the exhibition concept Form Us With Friends during Stockholm Design Week. This year, Form Us With Love has teamed up with the centre for architecture, form and design, The Swedish Museum of Architecture and created a unique exhibition on the scenic island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm.

With the exhibition, Form Us With Love wants to highlight the creative collaborations behind their new work.

A year of intense work has resulted in five projects adding new dimensions to each specific area: lighting, furniture and objects. The exhibition focuses on the story and process behind the projects.

Form Us With Love presents new design for five friends: the Plaid dividers for Abstracta (Sweden), the Plug Lamp for Ateljé Lyktan (Sweden), the Form Pendants for Design House Stockholm (Sweden), the Bento chair & table for One Nordic Furniture Company (Finland) and the Slab Vases for Cosentino Silestone (Spain).