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Swedish design studio TAF has created offices for a Stockholm branding and design agency with walls that resemble cardboard boxes (+ slideshow).

Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF chose the cardboard motif to reference client NINE‘s work in packaging design.

Partitions made from corrugated metal sheets painted to resemble cardboard were added to create meeting spaces within the open-plan office and existing walls were clad to maintain the paper aesthetic.

“The painted metal sheets create a basic trompe l’oeil effect, like big paper packaging turning into spaces,” Mattias Ståhlbom told Dezeen. “The benefit of using metal is that it is more durable and long lasting than real cardboard.”

Meeting rooms are differentiated by bright orange and green furniture and accessories. “The different colour themes chosen for the furniture create small visible ‘islands’ in the white and paper brown space,” adds Ståhlbom.

The designers also used their own Soft Parcels furniture range made from soft blocks of foam wrapped in fabric that look like paper-wrapped packages to provide casual seating in one of the spaces.

Previous interior designs by the same studio include a shoe store for Camper with tables that look like they’re made from lollipop sticks and a healthcare centre inspired by bandages and plasters.

Japanese studio Nendo has designed an office with meeting rooms surrounded by walls that peel apart to create entrances, while Google has opened a new office in Japan filled with traditional Japanese iconography.

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Photography is by Patrik Lindell.

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Product news: Swedish design duo Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson of TAF have created a table with an upside-down underframe for Danish producers Hay.

The Upside Down furniture by TAF for Hay exposes the wooden construction details that are usually hidden.

“The inspiration in this case was to show the handicraft that you always see when you look under a piece of furniture in a clear and obvious way,” Mattias Ståhlbom told Dezeen. “This is in order to make the product easier to understand and relate to, and the fact that it turned out to also become a constructional advantage is of course a bonus.”

The pieces are made from natural ash and come flat-packed in a range of three sizes that can be used as tables and stools. The collection is on show as part of the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen until 2 November.

Other TAF products on Dezeen include a set of furniture made by prisoners, an adaptable dining table and trestles to make different furniture forms.

Photos are by Petra Bindel and TAF.

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Designers Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF have created a collection of storage cabinets and tables for new brand Pieces with large interchangeable feet made from wood, marble or porcelain.

Called Trotters, the series comprises low birch benches and table tops in glass with optional birch cabinets that can be stacked in different configurations.

Silicon rings in white or orange sit between the feet and the surfaces they support.

The project was presented at NK department store during Stockholm Design Week, which took place from 6 to 12 February. See all our stories about the event here.

You can see all our stories about TAF here, including their new lamp for Zero that was also presented at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair that week.Photographs are by Joakim Bergström.

The following information is from TAF:

A new Swedish platform dedicated to all possible objects related to our everyday spaces.

Pieces are both creators and curators focused on the unique and personal, built through the craft, skill and quality of Swedish production.

Pieces was established in 2011 and grew out of a number of ideas that we wanted to develop in a more independent and free context.

Our name reflects our focus on creating individual pieces and objects. Sometimes a single item, sometimes a family.

One, or many, connected or independent. Every piece will be a new narrative.

The first furniture collection from Pieces is “Trotters” – a small family of low tables and open cabinets designed by Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom from TAF.

Trotters are like characters from a cartoon, or small friends.

Working with proportion and twisting the balance of the expected in a cabinet or table, the attention has been focused on the often forgotten and understated foot.

Playing with simple geometry, the result is both witty and surprising.

By altering only the materials of the foot, the collection provides many possibilities in a very simple way.

The feet are available in wood, marble, or white glazed porcelain, carrying tables and cabinets of wood and glass.

Additional details in pearl white and orange silicone.

High quality materials combined with Swedish craft and tradition.

Accompanying the furniture collection is a first edition print from Kyuhyung Cho.

A contemporary look based on the spirit of Trotters.

Screen printed by hand and framed with the same birch wood used in the furniture collection.

Pieces first exhibition was presented in collaboration with NK Inredning on February 7-11th at Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm. Trotters is exclusively available at NK.

Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.

Called Rubber, the lamps for Swedish brand Zero have aluminium shades and come as pendant or wall lights.

Stockholm Furniture Fair took place 8-12 February. See all our coverage of the event »

The information that follows is from TAF:

It began with a commission from a landscape architect (Grontmij).

And TAF’s first rubber-band inspired pole fittings stood ready at Strömkajen by Grand Hotel in Stockholm just in time for the Swedish crown princess’s June 2010 wedding.

Now, Rubber is also available as indoor pendant and wall-/facade fitting.

By altering ordinary objects and placing them in new contexts, TAF offers the viewer a possibility to see the objects in a new light.

In the Rubber project, the stretchability, flexibility and materiality of the rubber band has given shape, function and expression to the collection.

The final material is aluminum. Rubber is available in white, black and beige as standard.

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