Stockholm 2012: designers Elin Carlsten and Elisabeth Thostrup show this cabinet with sliding metal doors suspended from wheels on a rail as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week.

They also present a metal desk that’s fastened shut with a leather cord around two large buttons, inspired by the fastening on an envelope where string wraps around two paper disks.

Stockholm Furniture Fair continues until 11 February and you can see all our stories about it here.

Here are some more details from Carlstenthostrup:

Designer duo Carlsten Thostrup have developed a range of furniture which concern the concepts of identity and origin. It has taken its shape in a number of storage units where the details allow taking over. Welcome to see the Tie-desk and Reel cabinet in our stand, V03: 18.

Reel Cabinet

Inspired by the old barn door we designed the Reel Cabinet. A cabinet with large wheels that control the doors.

Tie Desk

New York in the 1880s. A new invention of envelopes. “Tension,” that opens and are being sealed by wrapping a cord between two round cardboard buttons. A fine detail that we wanted to take on. Which we also had the opportunity to in the process of sketching Tie Desk – our “home office” furniture. Here, we allowed this particular detail to take over. By wrapping the strap around the metal buttons the Tie Desk opens or closes.

Tired of all the mess that work from home results in, we decided to design a modern writing desk. Like a box, Tie Desk opens up. When you are finished for the day and close the valves Tie Desk becomes a unique piece of furniture in your home. At the workshop at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, we found each other directly, and our ability to give each other’s ideas life, and then together develop them is our greatest strength. It makes our cooperation surprising and enjoyable.

Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love present five new projects at the Swedish Museum of Architecture as part of Stockholm Design Week this week.

The work on show includes their Bento chair for new brand One Nordic Furniture Company (see our story here) pendant lamps for Design House Stockholm, dividers for Swedish brand Abstracta, a lamp for Swedish firm Ateljé Lyktan and vases for Spanish company Cosentino Silestone.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February. See all our coverage here.

Photos are by Jonas Lindström.

Here are some more details from Form Us With Love:

Form Us With Friends 2012

For the third year in a row, Form Us With Love presents the exhibition concept Form Us With Friends during Stockholm Design Week. This year, Form Us With Love has teamed up with the centre for architecture, form and design, The Swedish Museum of Architecture and created a unique exhibition on the scenic island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm.

With the exhibition, Form Us With Love wants to highlight the creative collaborations behind their new work.

A year of intense work has resulted in five projects adding new dimensions to each specific area: lighting, furniture and objects. The exhibition focuses on the story and process behind the projects.

Form Us With Love presents new design for five friends: 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 Company (Finland) and the Slab Vases for Cosentino Silestone (Spain).

Stockholm 2012: London designer Samuel Wilkinson presents a table with legs that are sharpened like pencils at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which opens today.

Created for Danish brand &tradition, the Hoof range is named after the way horses hoofs are trimmed before they are shod.

Each table is painted before the ends of the legs are trimmed, in contrast to the normal practice of masking the area to be left bare and then painting over the top.

Samuel Wilkinson is part of the design team behind the Plumen 001 designer light bulb, which won last year’s Design of the Year prize at London’s Design Museum. Watch our interview with the designers here.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February and Dezeen are reporting from the event – see our coverage here.

Here are some more details from Samuel Wilkinson:

The main inspiration for the HOOF tables starts from the foot detail.

I have always loved painted wooden chairs that have the end of the legs left as natural wood so that the paint doesn’t chip off from being either kicked or knocked when cleaning. The leg ends of the table are sharpened at the foot – like a horse’s hoof is trimmed before it is shod. This detail is emerged fromcontinuous explorationand development of production techniques.

The fine edge is created from the soft chamfer on the top and bottom. This gives the tables a tactile feel and clearly shows the solid wood construction. The foot detail is created by reversing the usual production process; most furniture details, which have a painted section and a natural part, are assembled, masked off, and then painted. Hoof will be painted first, then cut back. This detail also reminiscent of a knife trimmed pencil.

The new table is presented in five colours: grey, black, natural, white-pigmented oil and light blue.

Hoof is produced in solid oak with a deep brushed surface. It comes in a natural as well as painted issue and in two different sizes: 500x500mm/900x400mm

Stockholm 2012: French designer Inga Sempé presents a collection of LED pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair this week.

The w103s uses the same shade as her 2010 desk lamp for the company, with a hook added to the top of the shade. Different combinations of colours and tones can be combined as separate pendants, arranged along a bar or coupled together on a hexagonal frame.

Inga Sempé is guest of honour at the fair, which continues until 11 February. See all our coverage of the event here and all our stories about Inga Sempé here.

Wästberg was founded in 2008 and has worked with designers including Claesson Koivisto Rune, Ilse Crawford and David Chipperfield.

See all our stories about them here. Wästberg also launch new products by Ilse Crawford, Jonas Lindvall, Antoine Laver- dière and Claesson Koivisto Rune at the fair. More details to follow.

Here are some more details from Wästberg:

During Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2012 Wästberg will be launching a new range of lighting – LED pendant lighting – together with both old friends and new acquaintances.

Four years after the company launch, Wästberg are now expanding their range. This new collection of dimmable LED pendant lighting is developed in accordance with the company manifesto “Lamps for Neanderthal Man” in collaboration with Inga Sempé, Ilse Crawford, Jonas Lindvall, Antoine Laver- dière and Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Sempé w103s

A w103 suspension can be a single hanging shade or a combination of shades. They can be attached on a long rail for linear combinations or on smaller rails, where they can be joined together like Meccano to create polygons. The rail structure is thin enough to avoid the feeling of a heavy, hanging structure, and the lines are also softened by the round shapes of the shades. These exist in 7 very different tones – bright, soft, clear, dark – and can be arranged in any colour combination.

Two elements of the w103 range table lamp are used in the suspended lamps: the shade is identical and the hook of the clamp is moved to the top of the shade. This then becomes the assembly piece of all the various shade combinations.

Stockholm 2012: Stockholm designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF presents this pendant lamp inspired by the fenders and buoys that hang down from the side of boats at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair this week.

Called Buoy, the lamp has a blown glass shade and spun aluminium cap, suspended from an aluminium tube with a flex protected by silicone.

This is Ståhlbom’s third nautically inspired lamp for Swedish brand Zero – see his earlier Bottle and Fisherman lamps here and all our stories about Zero here.

Dezeen are reporting from Stockholm Design Week this week and you’ll be able to see our coverage in this special event category.

Photographs are by Jonas Lindström.

Here are some more details from Mattias Ståhlbom:

Buoy — Mattias Ståhlbom

A light in the darkness. A friend in need. Mattias Ståhlbom’s Buoy is the designed continuation of a series of fittings with marine references such as Bottle and Fisherman. This year, he starts off with safe things like buoys and fenders, and has Buoy made of glass and spun aluminium. The result is twofold: brittle and safe.

Above: Buoy, Fisherman and Bottle by TAF for Zero

The electrical cord and the metal wire which the lamp hangs in are hidden inside a tube made of silicone.

Dimensions: Height 440 mm, Width 340 mm
Material: Glass, Aluminium
Light Source: 18W/Gx24q, Incandescent bulb