The fabric for the Drawstring Lamps was originally made by textile brand Svensson Markspelle for use as sun shades, but the designers discovered that the tonal qualities and rigidity of the fabric would also work well for a lampshade.

The cords for the lamps were sourced at Gothenburg’s Belt Factory and the wooden components were salvaged from a local carpenter's workshop. “We use industrial waste and select recycled materials from local businesses and organisations, and show their possibilities by creating interior products,” explains Kerstin Sylwan of Design Stories.

The lamps form the first part of the designer's Merry-Go-Round collection, which they presented at Stockholm Design Week in February. The project is a collaboration between Kerstin Sylwan and Jenny Stefansdotter from Design Stories and the producers and artisans at Returhuset, a recycling workshop in the city that gives old furniture and bicycles a new lease of life.

The lamps are available as pendants in two sizes or table lamps with stands made of bicycle spokes. They can be purchased from the Merry-Go-Round Online Shop.

Similar lamps on Dezeen include a layered lamp called Baklava by architects Claesson Koivisto Rune and a polypropylene light in a hand-knitted net for Swedish design brand Zero.

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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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Designed by American product designer Shane Schneck and Swedish graphic designer Clara von Zweigbergk, the Strike Matchbox gives prime position to the striking surface, which is normally squeezed onto one side. "We simply flipped the space devoted to the activity of creating a flame," says Schneck. "99% of matchboxes are used only for advertising."

There are seven different sizes in a variety of bright colours, with patterns in varying scales. Hay presented the product in Paris and Stockholm.

Husband and wife Schneck and von Zweigbergk also worked together on the art direction for Hay's catalogue featuring blocks of bold, bright colour, and Schneck was the designer behind the wooden chair with a cantilevered seat that Hay presented in 2010.

See more products by Hay here, including glassware by Scholten & Baijings that was also shown in Paris and Stockholm.

Photographs are by Rasmus Norlander.

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Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Raw Edges used a selection of 20 Kvadrat textiles to make the 1500 ribbons that surround the display stand, which they called The Picnic, at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.

The wooden structure, which was made with Douglas fir from Danish flooring company Dinesen, used angled panels to display fabric swatches.

The stand was intended to evoke "a wooden cabin, soft roof tiles, fish skin and a picnic under a weeping willow," according to the designers.

Raw Edges was founded by Israeli designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay after they graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 2006.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Other projects by the duo we've featured on Dezeen include a shelf that splits in two to form a desk and a cork light fitting that lets you attach your own paper shade – see all design by Raw Edges.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

Photographs are by Joël Tettamanti, except where stated.

The Picnic by Raw Edges

Renowned design duo Raw Edges has designed the Kvadrat stand for the Stockholm Furniture 2013. The Picnic features a massive wooden construction of Dinesen Douglas Fir and a textile installation consisting of 1,500 straps made out of a selection of twenty different Kvadrat textiles.

Above: photograph by Raw Edges

The designers envisioned recreating a picnic in an enchanted forest atmosphere. Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay about the concept: “wooden cabin, soft roof tiles, fish skin and picnic under a weeping willow, all mixed in a massive pot with Kvadrat swatches. Served within a commercial fair with our aspiration to create a bit of relaxing surreal situation but very warm welcoming."

The stand is built out of two main elements: the wooden structure and the textile straps hanging from the ceiling. The wooden structure functions as display for the Kvadrat swatches and corresponds with the appearance of a wooden cabin. Made from Douglas Fir from the Danish floor company Dinesen, the horizontal wooden panels have been angled in such a way so it can hold the textile samples allowing the visitors a closer look. The impressive textile installation resembles vertical roof tiles and create a three dimensional volume. Functioning as a space divider it was inspired byweeping willow trees, creating an intimate space within the big exhibition hall.

About Raw Edges

Raw Edges is a London-based design studio founded by Israeli designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay. The duo, who attended the Royal College of Art together, collaborate on ideas and have complementary interests: whereas Yael Mer’s primary focus is on turning two-dimensional sheet materials into functional forms, Shay Alkalay is fascinated by how things move, function and react. Their output, which is the product of relentless experimentation, includes lamps, shelving, seating, flooring and museums installations.

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Above: Total Eclipse by Siv Lier

The exhibition, called State of Things, included Siv Lier's Total Eclipse lamp and Hallgeir Homstvedt's Tangent vases, which are attached to a metal tray by strong magnets.

Above: Tangent by Hallgeir Homstvedt

Gridy, a design duo comprising Lars Olav Dybdal and Wilhelm Grieg Teisner, presented Kabloom, a glass vase shaped like a cartoon bomb and designed to hold a single flower.

Above: Kabloom by Gridy

Also included were Kristine Bjaadal's small wooden containers shaped like seeds and Kristine Five Melvær's lamps with soft shades like flowerbuds, which we featured previously.

Above: Keepsake by Kristine Bjaadal

Caroline Olsson and Ida Noemi showed an ash and copper picture frame with no screws, while Erlend Bleken exhibited a steel and oak swing chair for indoor or outdoor use.

Above: In Theory by Marianne Andersen

Victoria Günzler and Sara Wright Polmar, who work together as Günzler.Polmar, presented a wooden pedestal table that can be combined with porcelain containers, while Marianne Andersen showed a series of pendant lamps made from pine and coloured glass.

Above: Dodo by Petter Skogstad

Martin Solem showed a mirror bent into three facets and mounted on wood, Petter Skogstad presented a squeezable silicone container for oil or soy sauce, and Maria Bjørlykke showed a trio of round tabletops connected by one base.

Above: 80.20 by Thomas Jenkins

Finally, Siren Elise Wilhelmsen presented a rug and chair in one, Sverre Uhnger showed a solid wood desk lamp and Thomas Jenkins exhibited a display box with an adjustable box fixed inside it.

Above: No. 2 by Günzler.Polmar

The show was put on by Klubben, an initiative founded by Günzler, Polmar and Uhnger as a club to help Norwegian designers cooperate and promote their work.

Above: Miroir by Martin Solem

Dezeen was in Stockholm this year reporting on the highlights from the city's design week, including a chair that looks like a bed of nails and a domed table lamp with a rotating wing for a dimmer switch – see all products from Stockholm Design Week.

Above: Bloom by Kristine Five Melvær

We also previously featured a wooden stool inspired by skateboards by Hallgeir Homstvedt, whose Tangent vases featured in the exhibition in Stockholm.

Above: Epaulette by Caroline Olsson and Ida Noemi

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Here's some more information from Klubben:

Klubben presents State of Things at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013

Klubben (Norwegian Designers Union) was founded in 2011 by Victoria Günzler, Sara Wright Polmar and Sverre Uhnger with the aim to gather talented young Norwegian furniture and product designers and present them at unique venues. Fresh designers will be invited for every new exhibition so that Klubben always presents both new products and new designers. The concepts will differ but our goal will always be the same: present great Norwegian design on the designers' own terms!

Above: Kantarell by Maria Bjørlykke

Designers:

Caroline Olsson
Ida Noemi
Erlend Bleken
Victoria Günzler
Sara Wright
Polmar Wilhelm
Grieg Teisner
Lars Olav Dybdal
Hallgeir Homstvedt
Kristine Bjaadal
Kristine Melvær Five
Maria Bjørlykke
Marianne Andersen
Martin Solem
Petter Skogstad
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
Siv Lier
Sverre Uhnger
Thomas Jenkins

Above: Memory Carpet by Siren Wilhelmsen

The present members of Klubben have attended universities in Norway, Denmark, Germany, England and Australia. Individually we have participated in exhibitions and fairs in London, Stockholm, Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, New York, Tokyo, Bergen, Milano, Cologne, Risør, Leipzig, Venezia and Seoul, and received awards like Muuto Talent Award, ELLE Norway Young Designer of the Year, Jury Award Designers Open Leipzig, Blueprint Award 100% Design London: Best New Product and Best use of Materials, Norsk Form Young Designer of the Year, Bonytt award and Gullkalven.

Above: Oo by Sverre Uhnger

The establishment of Klubben was marked with the exhibition Tingenes Tilstand at the art gallery TM51 in Oslo last fall and the response exceeded all expectations with more than 1000 people visiting the exhibition during its four days. Version two, State of Things, will be presented to the international design industry during Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013. The exhibition shows 17 products by 18 designers.

Above: Svev by Erlend Bleken

The invited designers were challenged to design a product or a piece of furniture inspired by a box filled with everyday objects and the text:

Objects attract and inspire us. They tell stories, evoke emotions, they make us curious and they fascinate us. Our experiences are related to associations and memories, to colours and shapes, or function and materiality. It can be complex and impressive, or simple and subtle.

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