Form Us With Love & Friends: New Designs

One had to walk through a very snowy Skeppsholmen island (Stockholm) to discover design studio Form Us With Love’s new designs, displayed at the Swedish Museum for Architecture. A worthy trip, though: On the occasion of the third “Form Us With Friends” event, designers John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson, and Petrus Palmér introduced 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 (a brand new company based in Finland), as well as the Slab Vases for Cosentino Silestone (Spain).

The Bento chair and table, made of bent birch plywood, come into four parts each, that can be assembled without the need for any tools or fasteners. Form pendant glass lights, blown into geometric shapes, have been designed to be hung in group, each shape complementing the other. As for the PET foam room divider, its name (Plaid) suggests a versatile use: it can be hanged, draped or simply put on the floor and fanned out according to one’s needs. The most poetic objects of the series, the Slab vases display colorful rings of silestone (gravel, coloring and binding agents blended into quartz) piled up over a 40cm-high metal bracket, that can be assembled in an array of different combinations.

Exhibition: Form Us With Friends, Form Us With Love, Photography © Jonas Lindström

Elodie Palasse-Leroux is a Paris-based writer and journalist, the founder and editor of Sleek design.

Monday, February 13th, 2012

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“Form Us With Love & Friends: New Designs”

maupado Says:
February 13th, 2012 at 6:55 PM
french flair.
Sleekdesign / Elodie Says:
February 14th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
@Maupado: Swedish talent ;)
Steve Says:
February 14th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Definitely iPad Smart Cover inspired! ;-)

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