Seams folded outward around the edge of each panel are connected with small pegs to form the Hood modular lamp shades, which Form Us With Love designed for Swedish lighting company Ateljé Lyktan.

Three different sections are used to create the shades: four corner panels are attached to create a dome, then the shape can be extended by adding curved side or flat top sections.

These formations create vautled coverings that are circular, oblong or chamfered-square shapes in plan.

The light sources covered in acrylic domes hang from thin wires connected to the ceiling wherever four sections meet.

Hood was launched at the Form Us With Love market at Stockholm Design Week last month, during which the studio also presented spun metal lamps for One Nordic.

They've also designed a menswear store where accessories are displayed like tools and vases comprised of quartz compound slabs.

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Hood is a sheltering lamp that creates both room and light. Designed by Form Us With Love as a voluminous illumination shield as well as a modular LED pendant light, the pendant is addressing a modern atmosphere issue.

Much like the recent Plug lamp, Hood is built on necessity. Once again bringing a dual function light, Hood meets the basic desire of shutting things out and concentrating light on secluded areas like work-, conference- or dining tables. At the same time, the three-piece modular function lets you build the Hood to whatever size you need. Starting with basic corner units, one can add the compressed industrial felt sheets to scale the pendant for an extensive illuminating form.

“The Hood lamp is more than a lamp. Itʼs a piece of furniture - the size and material has an interesting effect on the atmosphere, making the piece feel so much more than just a pendant lamp”, says Form Us With Love.

The work on the Hood lamp began three years ago at the Form Us With Love studio. The challenge was to confront the awkwardness of today’s overly undressed communal areas. The solution was found when trying to absorb the focus around the conference table in the design studio. “Open areas become the ultimate flexibility, but emotionally it is not always preferred. In Scandinavia, most offices are too bare and you only have your laptop screen as your protective shield. Hood is built around the emotional value of a shelter, where the intimate room is protected, letting you keep the landscape view”, says Form Us With Love.

“The desire to enable people to improve their quality time by creating a room in a larger room, is much more than merely illuminating things. Comfort should be for everyone. When you sit under the hood you relax and start to think differently, protected by the form and provided with the warm light you feel at ease”, Form Us With Love concludes.

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Stockholm 2013: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate a talk about the future of designers and commerce at the Form Us With Love market tomorrow evening as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Form Us With Love will host the panel discussion at their exhibition at Birger Jarlsgatan 15, Stockholm from 6pm - 6:45pm on 5 February.

Fairs will lead the discussion titled Commerce, Communication and Inspiration, between Form Us With Love, Tictail co-founder Siavash Ghorbani, One Nordic CEO Joel Roos, designer Karin Wallenbeck and Residence editor-in-chief Hanna Nova Beatrice.

Nova Beatrice's new book Behind the Scenes - Stories from the Design Industry will be launched the same day and includes contributions from Fairs and other established design writers.

Themes from the book will also be discussed by Nova Beatrice, Fairs and Strelka Press director Justin McGuirk in a talk moderated by Disegno editor-in-chief Johanna Agerman Ross called Designology - the art of communicating design, at 2:45pm on 5 February during The Hello! Show at Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Form Us With Love will launch tiered spun-metal lamps during Stockholm Design Week, which takes place until 10 February - see all our coverage of the event so far here.

Photography is by Jonas Lindström.

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The Levels lamps are made in three parts that stack inside each other for transportation but can be assembled without tools.

The folded-over rim of each part allows the shades to hang from each other.

“At the factory the metal sheets used for the lampshades are spun and pushed around a rotating mandrel until they reach perfect circle forms," say Form Us With Love.

"At the very end of the spin you give the shades a fold to support the structure," they continue. "The spun fold gave us the idea of making the different sized shades hang from one another, allowing for the parts to be stacked when transported.”

Different sizes of shade can be combined in various configurations and they come in three colours: white, grey and copper.

Positioning themselves somewhere between high design and flatpack, One Nordic launched at last year's Stockholm Furniture fair with the aim of "shipping as little air as possible" while still making their products simple and intuitive to assemble.

Form Us With Love created the Bento chair for One Nordic's first collection, which assembles with one large bolt under the seat rather than fiddly screws or glue.

Other designs by Form Us With Love on Dezeen include a lamp with an electrical socket integrated into the base, a menswear shop where clothes are displayed like tools and a watch for new Swedish brand TID Watches, which you can purchase from Dezeen Watch Store.

Stockholm Furniture Fair runs from 5 to 9 February and you can see our stories about the event here.

Photographs are by Jonas Lindström.

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Dezeen Watch Store: Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has launched a watch for new Swedish brand TID Watches - and the first ten customers who pre-order the watch at Dezeen Watch Store will get special-edition signed packaging by the designers (+ interview).

No.1 is the first product by TID Watches, which is Swedish for "time", and Form Us With Love has designed it to be timeless and durable.

"We decided that the most important thing was to design a watch that would look good with any outfit and that you could wear everyday, and not throw away in three months when that fashion is over," said Petrus Palmer of Form Us With Love (see interview below). "It is a big watch. It's a steel watch, it won't break, there are no loose parts, there is no connections for the wristband and so on."

The watch features a black, ion-plated stainless steel case with either a black or white face and a woven nylon wristband. No.1 is available to pre-order now at Dezeen Watch Store. Buy now for £162.50 excluding VAT. We now offer FREE SHIPPING on all UK orders.

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Here's an interview with Petrus Palmer of Form Us With Love (above, right), conducted by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs:

Marcus Fairs: You've designed a watch for a new Swedish brand. Tell us about TID.

Petrus Palmer: It's two guys from the fashion industry. They wanted to invest in a new company and they wanted watches as they are products that last. Fashion is so quick; you can't keep things alive for more than a month or a year. With watches you can go with the same product for a longer time; you're making products that will last.

Marcus Fairs: Tell us about the watch you've designed.

Petrus Palmer: Basically we wanted a watch that hasn't been done before. There have been so many nice watches that have been done, and there is so much engineering and talent that is put into watches. So we didn't really want to go down that alley and try and compete with the best in watch manufacturing. Our approach was rather to do something that we ourselves would like. It's also a watch that everybody can afford.

We decided that the most important thing was to design a watch that would look good with any outfit and that you could wear everyday, and not throw away in three months when that fashion is over. It is a big watch. It's a steel watch, it won't break, there are no loose parts, there is no connections for the wristband and so on. The surface of the steel has been bombarded with ions to give it a really durable black finish. It has a good Japanese movement.

So it is a really good watch; it will last. You can easily change the wristband, if you want a leather one, or if you want to buy your own; we could launch other wristbands later on.

Marcus Fairs: The designer watch market is expanding really quickly. Which other designers or models do you admire?

Petrus Palmer: The Braun watches and clocks; the designs by Dieter Rams. That is the kind of watch we want to do, that is our inspiration.

Marcus Fairs: And I understand you have agreed to do some signed additions for Dezeen Watch Store customers? That is very kind of you. What is your message to them?

Petrus Palmer: I would love to see them use it, as it is the first watch we are launching. I would love their feedback, actually. Tell us what you think, and be honest, because we really want to do something that you wear because you like it and you want to keep it. Give us your feedback and we will try to be better.

Below is some text about the watch from TID Watches:

”Tid” is Swedish for time. TID is a small Swedish design brand with a big ambition - to produce iconic products designed with time as a principle parameter. TID is now launching their first product, befittingly a timepiece. The No.1 wristwatch is a black ion plated milled stainless steel watch designed by Stockholm based studio Form Us With Love:

"The idea of designing No.1 came from the somewhat paradoxical insight that wristwatches had become obsolete. The wristwatch lost its essentiality when devices for showing time moved into everyone's pocket. Now the wristwatch is one of the few pieces of jewelry many carry, its main function being to serve as the icing on your outfit cake. As product designers influenced by the Scandinavian tradition of functionalism, we where intrigued by this fact.

"Faced with the challenge of designing an object, when that specific object's raison d'etre was very much in question, the design studio turned its focus in a more philosophical direction - how do you design for time? No.1 is the first result - an iconic watch that aims to withstand shifts in times and styles." – Form Us With Love

No.1 comes in stainless steel with black ion plating - a resilient deep surface treatment. The inside holds a Japanese quartz clockwork. The accompanying NATO wristband in woven nylon is attached without screws or hinges. The watch is available with white or black face.

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Menswear is displayed like tools in a shed at this shop in Stockholm by local designers Form Us With Love.

Clothes hang from metal pipes suspended from the walls and ceiling and accessories rest on wooden pegs that sit in a large white pegboard.

The pegs also support shelves that provide more display space. Further shelving and display benches are made from the same ash boards as the flooring.

Quartz and leather are used alongside the wood to help define the "contemporary dandy" ethos of the brand.

Form Us With Love also designed the pendant glass lamps that hang in the store, which are part of the Form Us With Friends collection launched earlier this year.

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Haberdash interior design

Haberdash is the contemporary dandy store in Stockholm. Form Us With Love designed the interior for the newly opened shop at Upplandsgatan 50 in Stockholm. FUWL approached the project by researching and selecting materials reflecting the level of detail and quality of Haberdash's fashion. The results is an interior with products from materials used in a new way, including Silestone quarts slabs for display wall and counter, Kährs ash flooring for display stands and leather remnants from tanneryTärnsjö for seating. The newly launched pendant glass lamps designed by FUWL for Design House Stockholm frames the setting.

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