Marcus and Kristoffers bachelor project is rewarded with “Best Student Work” in I.D Annual Design Review. We are very happy about this and thank the jury for selectecting our work with the Konstfack outdoor Café and the furniture concept FRAME.

Words from the Jury:
“It shows that with a very simple set of materials—and without changing them much—you can create this playful, optimistic situation.” –Judge Manuel Miranda

About the Award:
Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic, and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture. Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.’s editorial team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design. The resulting overview is published in the July/August issue of I.D. magazine — the Annual Design Review issue.

EXHIBITION!

The exhibition with us and the other winners is held at the AIGA National Design Centre in New York between the 30th of August and the 10th och September.

Gallery opening hours are:
Monday through Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m–5:00 p.m.

Please RSVP by August 27, 2010 to Nicole Florence at  idcompetitions@fwmedia.com

LOOKLET new head office.

FAGERSTRÖM & ABRAHAMSSON is commissioned to design the new head office of swedish fashion company LOOKLET. This young and exciting company will move in to their brand new office in the during this summer, so please check back for images of that project. For now it will have to due with a picture of Marcus experimenting with the light in this beautiful 19th century factory located at Södermalm in Stockholm.

FAGERSTRÖM & ABRAHAMSSON just delivered 5 brand new FRAME benches to Uppsala Resecentrum (Uppsala Travel Centre). We where asked to fill the FRAME modules with swedish pine painted in the graphic program of Jernhusen AB, the company buidling the Travel Centre. This project is one of biggest architectprojects in the history of the city Uppsala. FAGERSTRÖM & ABRAHAMSSON is off course very proud to be a small part of this huge project. The architects behind the interior is Wester & Elsner through Jenny Söderström.

Description: Outdoor Sofa made with the FRAME Sofa-module.

Description: Another new version of the FRAME Sofa. This time a party in purple has landed in the FRAME modules. The Sofa was shown at this years design week in Stockholm between the 9 – 14 of februari at the group exhibition Check-In.

Tomorrow night you are all very welcome to have a drink with us and open this years Check-In exhibition at Hotel Birger Jarl. The party opens at 8 and closes at 11. We are presenting for the first time, the FRAME Sofa.

Description: The FRAME family just got a new member: FRAME Sofa feat. colourful tubes and FRAME Easychair feat. colourful tubes.

Description: A fling with the fifties danish aesthetics led to this graceful coffee/magazine table for Maze International. First exhibited at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2010, the table will soon be in stores near you.  

Come check out FAGERSTRÖM & ABRAHAMSSONs stand at this years FORMEX fair, the biggest nordic design fair. B07:10d is the number to look for. Opens today and closes onsunday. Welcome!

Concept:
How can Konstfack communicate its inner soul in its external space?

On the basis of our new professional role as interior architects and furniture designers, in our degree project we have taken on Konstfacks outdoor café. The project has been an opportunity to work on this location as a whole and to design a series of site specific items of outdoor furniture.
The current concrete floor, which is part of the main entrance to Konstfack, has been converted from a windy no mans land to a well kept and pleasant outdoor café. Through clear choices of materials and generous design we have made it into a place for relaxation and spending time together in the sun. No pretentions, just a nice lunch in pleasant company.

With the aim of creating an interdisciplinary space, we have created a framework that lets the space react to influences and allows it to change over time. In the future when the wood content of this framework is worn out it is up to the current students to decide the content. By this we hope that the space will develop into a collage of materials. We are leaving something behind us that not only represents us and Konstfack at present but can also represent Konstfack in the future…

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