Stockholm Design Week: We’re in Sweden this week, and the girls from Front have just completed an installation in the lobby of our hotel, the Nordic Light.
The installation consists of a forest of artificial fir trees, and new chairs and benches that Front have created for Swedish brand Materia.
The chairs and benches are made of soft foam over a steel frame but are upholstered with timber-effect fabric to look like solid wood.
The installation was commissioned by the hotel as part of Stockholm Design Week.
Dezeen is in Stockholm courtesy of the Light Now conference organised by Future Design Days and the Nordic Light Hotel.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
February 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
odd set up.
artificial trees!… does that mean “plastic”? if so, then that’s not very ecological for a set up that’s suppose to inspire nature, err….. woods.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Very Cool
February 5th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
They’re absolutely inviting.
February 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
K. Rimane, the artificial trees tie in perfectly with their design approach. The chairs are foam and steel, made to look like wood. The whole idea of invoking the natural in a way that’s completely unnatural is how they approached the chairs, and thus the exhibition of those chairs.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Those scandinavians know how to have fun !
February 6th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Front girls are hot
February 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am
To Andrew S.; Very well put.
The chair design looks very Scandinavian too.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am
a plastic foam cup can be more ecological than a porcelain one, with all the CO2 release that the porcelain kiln stands for. Along that line, fake plastic trees could be as ecological as real ones.
Natural doesn’t necessarily mean ecological, and high tech can mean sustainable. It’s a (Brave) New World…
February 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Clever girls
Tho it was hard to see the exhibts at the party-sooo busy
February 8th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
it is a brave new world, good point. These “fake” trees mean that the real trees were left to grow……………
somewhere.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Disney Land ?
February 12th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Really looks like an ecological mess. Nice for the eyes, but then the foam and plastics are headed for the landfill?
February 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
It’d look more inviting with x’mas decorations for me. ^_^
February 17th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Let’s then live in plastics only – is that what you suggest? I hate fakes. If ‘the artificial trees tie in perfectly with their design approach’ – then it is the design approach that is the problem (unless it is not ironic?)