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The Robert stool’s uses robust tubular steel in contrast with thin hand-carved wood to create an aesthetic that is at once industrial and elegant. The seat is curved for seamless comfort and displays a striking diagonal accent inlay. The base’s colorful powder coated finish emphasizes the toughness of the material, ensuring that users can be confident in the durability of the design.

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Stockholm 2014: student designer Nanna Kiil is showing a chair that looks like it’s dressed in a fat suit at the Greenhouse showcase of young talent as part of the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Nanna Kiil modelled the Flesh Chair on an obese body. “The shape is inspired by overweight humans,” she told Dezeen. “I wanted to work with that aesthetic in a positive way.”

She used memory foam covered in a light pink textile to create the flabby appearance of the armchair. A wrinkled breed of dog was also taken as a reference when forming the folds and creases. “I was really inspired by the shar pei dog, where the fat is something I find really attractive,” said Kiil.

The foam was scrunched and wrinkled around a metal frame then sewn together along the edges. Wooden appendages are attached to the end of the frame and poke from the lumpy material to imitate hands and feet.

Kiil designed the chair during a five-week project while studying at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design.

It is on show along with a selection of student work in the Greenhouse section of the Stockholm Furniture Fair, which continues until 8 February.

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Stockholm 2014: design duo Färg & Blanche created this furniture collection by sewing pieces of plywood together (+ slideshow).

Färg & Blanche used a heavy-duty sewing machine more commonly used for making car seats to stitch together sections of plywood.

“No one had ever tried using such a hard material on the machine,” Emma Marga Blanche told Dezeen.

After discovering that it was possible to sew the wood together, the pair experimented with different thicknesses and densities to push the limits of the machine.

“It was really exciting to find that this actually worked,” said Blanche. “We went thicker and thicker with the wood, so the ideas kept coming and developing.”

The first item they created in the Wood Tailoring range was the Pocket Cupboard, a modular storage system with leather pockets attached onto the front of the doors.

“Sewing is so heavily associated with the fashion industry but we like to think we’re tailoring each of these pieces to create Haute Couture furniture,” said Fredrik Färg.

Wood contours that get darker as they become smaller form the back of the Wood Layer Armchair, which arcs around a leather seat.

The pieces of the smaller Bespoke Chair are steamed to bend them before stitching, while the armchair is sewn flat and then glued into its curved shape.

Färg & Blanche also sewed a large freestanding cupboard from a dark grey insulation material, with a topographical motif on the sides similar to the back of the armchair.

Färg & Blanche are a Swedish and French duo who worked independently before combining their efforts and setting up their own studio in Stockholm four years ago.

In 2011 they curated the 20 designers at Biologiska exhibition, where designers’ work was presented among stuffed animals and dried plants.

The products were debuted at Färg & Blanche’s studio last night and are currently on show at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair, which commences today and runs until 8 February as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Here’s some more information from the designers:

Wood Tailoring

Fredrik Färg and Emma Marga Blanche’s latest innovation Wood Tailoring will be presented at the Stockholm Furniture Fair for the first time. Sewing technology is taken to its extreme with a thoroughly researched craftsmanship.

“We have tried extreme sewing technology the past years,” says Fredrik and Emma jointly, “not at least in the Emma armchair for Gärsnäs where the stitch was part of the construction. Now we have gone even further by reducing everything, only a shell of wood with the sewing as pattern generator and a structural element.”

Wood Tailoring employs sewing machine to stitch directly on to the wood in order to join different parts together while at the same time creating patterns which has an aesthetic of their own. Layer on layer of thick plywood is stitched together to make the Wood Layer Armchair, and where the sewing presents a topographical map with an organic pattern that resembles the growth of wood.

“Sewing is usually seen as something, which has to do with soft materials. We use our heavy-duty sewing machines to sew in wood. And, yes, it’s a raw poetry that fuses the hand-made with the industrial.”

Wood Tailoring is a new technology, which explores radical new possibilities in the joining of parts in furniture. The first products are the Wood Layer Armchair, the Bespoke Chair and the Pocket Cupboard, all to be presented at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

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Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a set of ceiling-mounted office dividers for Swedish brand Offecct (+ slideshow).

Luca Nichetto designed the Notes room dividers for Offecct Lab, a branch of the brand that develops sustainable products and furniture for the workplace.

Nichetto took influence from washing hung above the narrow alleyways in his home town of Venice when designing the screens.

“When kids play football on the street, the clothes hanging over the lines muffle the sound of the bouncing football and screaming kids,” he explained. “So I used that as inspiration and tried to transfer it in to an industrial product.”

Each screen is constructed from two upholstered boards with rounded corners that sandwich a layer of recycled felt.

The felt helps to absorb noise from both sides of the division, but the pieces still allows a visual link between the spaces they separate at seated eye level.

“My brief from Offecct was to create a new kind of sound panel that didn’t have to be fixed on the wall but more like a free standing object,” said Nichetto. “At the same time it should work with recyclable felt made of waste from the upholstery production.”

The panels mount on rails so they can be slid side-to-side to create different arrangements. The collection includes five shapes, which can be covered in a selection of fabrics.

Offecct will present the range at this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair, which starts today as part of Stockholm Design Week.

The brand is also launching a modular table system with plug sockets within the structure, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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