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| The magazine holder "Subway" is inspired from the classic advertisement pillars with layers and layers of posters. Subway's powerful expression makes it an expressive ingredient in all kinds of public areas. The standalone cylindrical model lends itself to placement in the middle of the room where the magazines are accessible from all directions. Textile-covered rubber bands keep the magazines in place. The Subway is available in three different heights as a floor standing model, and for wall mounting. |
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| Jewellery designed for the "Stockholm je t'aime" exhibition at Gallery Pascale in Stockholm in spring 2009. "Kluster" is a magnetic bracelet that can be parted and reconstructed in endless combinations. |
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| “Stranden” (the beach) is the name of a new permanent outdoor seating group. It’s placed in Rosenlundsparken, next to "Skatteskrapan" on the south island in the center of Stockholm. The sculpture measures 140 square meter with seats for 50 people. The park was opened in May 2008. All furniture and umbrellas are made so that the park can be open and used all year around. A huge lamp will light up the park at night and during the dark winter Stranden will remind the deep frozen Swedes of summer, holiday and lazy days at the beach. Photo Nicho Södlig |
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| The Fat is a furniture series suitable for shops, galleries, schools, healthcare environments and offices. Environments where you wish to convey a feeling of outdoors and indoors. The very pronounced clarity of the design makes the Fat the archetypal item of furniture for the purpose. The robust construction provides durability for use in heavy duty working environments. Great emphasis has been placed on sitting comfort, the angle of the back boards providing pleasing support for the back. The Fat is available as a bench and as a sofa, with or without armrests. |
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Hinken 2008 Litterbin and planter Design Thomas Bernstrand Manufacture Nola Industrier website www.nola.se e-mail headoffice@nola.se phone +46(0)87021960 |
| It's not often that a litterbin looks so good that you're reluctant to throw trash into it, but the smooth contours and gleaming surfaces of Hinken could make you to think twice. Yet, at the same time, its efficient plastic-fibre and steel design has created an economical and ergonomic means of placing rubbish where it belongs: out of sight. Free of any embellishment or decorative details, the litterbin is discreet enough for modern museums, galleries and other design-conscious places, yet conspicuous enough to get noticed easily. Photo Johan Kalen |
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Kajen 2009 Public park bench Design Thomas Bernstrand Manufacture Nola Industrier website www.nola.se e-mail headoffice@nola.se phone +46(0)87021960 |
| Conventional wooden slats form the seat and backrest of this undulating bench, but its design is completely unique. Crafted in an expressive, swooping form that balances atop three structural supports, the bench is made with maximum comfort in mind. One of the first park benches to be accompanied by a footstool, the design invites those seated to put their feet up, or just sit back and relax. The laid-back luxury of this bench makes a unique addition to any public space. Photo Jann Lipka |
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| This impressive tiered seating system has the glamour of a grandstand and the efficiency to turn any outdoor arena into a stadium. Used indoors, it creates a space-saving seating arrangement that is as striking as it is practical. Like stadium seats, Wembley combines the staircase and seating in a single expression. The bench-like seating arcs into a sleek curve that gives spectators vantage points in several directions. Whether seating spectators, shoppers, or students during a break, Wembley provides uniquely multi-level seating that can be enjoyed by people in many walks of life. Wembley unique seating array is made for arenas, lecture halls, libraries, universities, public parks, playground, public baths, schools, shopping centers and terraces. Wembley is made in oiled oak, oiled teak or alkyd oil enamel on pine. The frame is made in recyclable cast aluminum. Photo Jann Lipka |
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Heaven 2008 Ladder and stool Design Thomas Bernstrand Manufacture Swedese website www.swedese.se e-mail info@swedese.se phone +46(0)87021960 |
| The ladder Heaven is designed with only one part of a two-parted ladder. The bottom plate holds it up. The cone shape makes it looks like it is reaching up to the sky. The ladder is made of painted aluminium. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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| cDIM award winning product in the professional category, Valencia Spain 2004. Gobbles is a perfect product when you have a lot of guests in your home. There will be no coats on the floor or on the bed. The hook is attached to a stretchable cord so that the clout follows the hook when it is unhooked. The firs person at the party normally leaves before the person coming later. This means that the last coat on the hook will fall. With Gobble coat hanger it will no happen. Photo Joakim Bergstrom |
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Foto 2006 |
| The foto lamp, as the name implies, is a product with clear echoes from the lamps used in photography and filming. foto is an elegantly styled product, with meticulous attention paid right down to the minutest detail. It looks great when used to emphasize selected details such as groups of chairs or paintings in both homes and public rooms. The lamp is made of cast aluminium and is available as a floor, hanging or wall lamp. The floor support is made of steel and its height is adjustable. Photo Joakim Bergstrom |
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Hide 2004 |
| A lamp with a hidden lamp source. The angle between the outside and the inside of the lamp is different but not visible for the viewer. A space is created where the lamp source is placed. This means that the lamp source appears to disappear for the viewer. |
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Hide Glass 2004 |
| A lamp with a hidden lamp source. The angle between the outside and the inside of the lamp is different but not visible for the viewer. A space is created where the lamp source is placed. This means that the lamp source appears to disappear for the viewer. |
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| The Supple floor and table lamp is made of a flexible tube that offers the user to bend the lamp into any shape wanted. The lamp can be squeezed together to minimize the volume. This is perfect when the lamp is exported around the world. Small package reduces the pollution which is good for the environment. This also reduces the transport cost to a minimum. Prototype. |
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| Mayflower is a furniture concept that has many points of view. Its prismatic geometry gives the viewer a new experience depending on where he approaches it. The furniture, with its characteristic shape and contour, easily finds its place in the environment it occupies. Mayflower, in an elegant, upholstered version has many possible combinations. The material of the seat shell is moulded polyurethane resting on tubular steel legs moulded into the shell. Choose between low or high back supports. With no armrests at all, open steel frames or completely upholstered arm rests. The leg supports are available as a simple four-legged construction, or a revolving seat support with a five spoke construction on wheels. All in chromium plated steel. |
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| The Mayflower is a neat and flexible lightweight series of tables. The tables are very easy to place and can be used in cafeterias, restaurants and dining rooms. The characteristic finish to the steel tubing provides a strong sense of identity to the otherwise simple geometric expression. The Mayflower series of tables is available in various formats and complements the chairs in the same product family. |
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| Mayflower is a furniture concept that has many points of view. Its prismatic geometry gives the viewer a new experience depending on where he approaches it. The furniture, with its characteristic shape and contour, easily finds its place in the environment it occupies. The Mayflower plastic chair has a comfortable and expressive seat shell of injection moulded plastic, in white, grey, black or yellow/green. Upholstered seat available as an optional extra. Mayflower has legs of chromium plated steel tubing and armrests of solid steel. Comfortable, efficient, stackable and connectable. |
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| The Mayflower beam sofa has the same expressive, elegant seat shell as the Mayflower chair. The beams logical modular construction offers maximum variation in the number of seats. Its load-bearing structure supports the weight of five persons without the need for extra legs. The seat shell is available in white, black or lime, with or without an upholstered seat. |
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| Tremendous appreciation has been expressed for the interesting interplay between areas and lines, light and shadow, of our Mayflower series, which had its premier showing at last years Swedish Furniture Fair. With its prismatic structure, the Mayflower bar stool is a logical development of this concept. Distinctive, comfortable and easy to stack. An elegant and practical feature is the 450 footrest, with its protective, injection-molded plastic edging. |
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Do Swing 1999 |
| A swingable chandelier. Designed for my exam work at Konstfack 1999. Became a part of Droog Designs exhibition "do + droog design = do create" in Milan during the furniture fair Salone del Mobile 2001. Photo Rosemarie Andersson |
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Wembley Sofa 1999
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| A tree step sofa, just like an arena. Perfect when you're watching football ore having a debate in you're home. Material: Textile, MDF board, Metal chassis. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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Burk 2004 |
| A series of glass inspired by beer cans. The top of the glass is folded just like the beer can. When you drink from the glass your lip fits perfectly with the folded part of the glass. Drinking directly from the beer can is something we all can relate to. It's not accepted in a way but it works very well since the folded part fits the lip so well. Prototype. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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Deep 2005 |
| A 24 mm thick mirror. Deep is a non-designed mirror with sharp edges and no shape or form. The thick glass is all there is. Prototype. Photo Rikard Westman |
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Flowel 2004 |
| A towel hanger with a 2-meter special designed towel. Grab the towel, dry your hands and twirl it around. The towel will dry up when you have twirled it around to the part you first where using. You dont need to iron it because it straighten is self out when you twirl the wet towel. Prototype. Illustration Rosemarie Andersson |
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Ernst 2000 |
| An armchair with a wedged pillow stitched to the back. The pillow can be “flopped” up or down. This will change the sitting from upright to a more relaxed position. Easy to understand and adjust. |
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| A kitchen table with a planning bench at the end of the table top. For active people who needs the kitchen table for more than a place to eat. The planning bench part can also be used for cutting bread and cracking crab claws. Photo Charlie Drevstam |
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| Material: Handmade fine bone china - unglazed and hand polished outside, glazed inside. Description: Cordless is a lamp. It looks like a lamp and works like a lamp, but it has no electrical cord. It's like magic, and it also makes the lamp very flexible to use. It requires no electricity so you can move it around anywhere. Cordless is made out of bone china, and the semi-transparency of this material gives the lamp a magical glow in the late evening. |
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Tolerance 2007 |
| A Christmas candle light made to attentive religious tolerance around the world. Special designed for the Christmas issue of Plaza magazine Sweden 2007. |
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Poker 2006 |
| Material: painted aluminum, plastic diffuser and Low-energy bulb. Size: small o 500 H 230 mm and large o 1000 H 480 mm. Low-energy lamps are great for the environment but they don't look that nice. Therefore Poker is design with a solution to hide the low-energy bulb, just like I did with my previously lamp Hide from 2004. Poker is a normal cone lamp but with an elegant plastic diffusor solution to cover this lamp source. This solution makes the light source disappear for the viewer, the lamp is lit but it appears to have no light source. The diffusor is easily removed by squeezing it out of the rubber strip specially designed for Poker. Photo Joakim Bergstrom |
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Winner of Excellent Swedish Design Award 2002 Boxer 2001 Armchair Design Thomas Bernstrand Manufacture Swedese website www.swedese.se e-mail info@swedese.se phone +46(0)87021960 |
| Armchair with footstool and neck rest included in the armchair. Made in both armchair and sofa. Winner of Excellent Swedish design 2002. Photo Swedese furniture. Not in production any more. |
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Self 2004 |
| Material: Painted MDF board, Metal legs, Rubber feet Description: A stackable shelf system. On the shelf legs there's a special design foot that perfectly fits on the part of the metal leg that sticks up through the shelf. The shelf's can easily be stack on top of each other and move around and placed in any way you like. Prototype. Photo Johan Kalen. |
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| People is a very comfortable. It has an optimal seating curve with a high back. It has armrests and you can lean back and adjust the angle to your own liking. People has a 100 % disappearing footstool. When the footstool is pushed in it is no longer a footstool it is a part of the seat. The footstool pleats it self on to the front of the armchair. The "accordion" footstool has a very low-tech construction. The only thing that makes the fabric to plead it self in the right way is by "learning" the fabric the right way to go. We do it once and then the footstool knows which way to go. The glass fibre "arms" that holds the footstool up has a very comfortable "trampoline" effect. The costumer's leg will softly float above the floor. Not in production any more. |
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Baywatch 2004 |
| Prototype today and tomorrow and hopefully for all eternity. Photos Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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Time 2005 |
| Dimension: H 160 F 287 or H 60 F 144. Material: Glass Description: The myth says, "Glass never stops moving". This design shows how a glass bowl will look in about 100.000 years. Hand blown glass bowl from one of the oldest and well-known glasswork in Sweden. |
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Barbara 2006 |
| Jewellery designed for the "love according to men" exhibition on Valentines Day at Platina jewellery gallery in Stockholm. Love is fragile. With this jewellery you can change the name after every girl you dump or get dumped by for the next girl's name. Works for both sex. One life lasting investment! Photo Rikard Westman |
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Goal 2003 |
| The smooth texture of polyurethane has the softness of a second skin, giving this bench a uniquely tactile feel. The Goal bench, along with the Goal sofa, are designed to compliment the Goal table, and their soft surfaces provide an exciting counterpoint to the table's concrete top. While the bench and sofa are ideal choices for outdoor environments, their comfortable contours provide an attractive compliment to hi-tech interiors also. The seats are anchored to a pair of stainless steel runners to create a strong and stable base. The blend of galvanised steel and slick polyurethane gives Goal an architectonic effect that mirrors the simplicity of many architectural styles. |
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Graze 2004 |
| Designed for the exhibition "inspired 2050" during 2004 years Stockholm Furniture Fair. Graze is a gene manipulated dog with a static fur that will suck up all your dust. And when you take Graze for a walk it will shake so that all the dust will come of. Graze love to lick the floor and loves to eat everything that we leave. Graze is just like a vacuum cleaner. Photo Louise Billgert |
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Even 2004 |
| A lamp hanging from a wire. The wire is not placed in the centre of the lamp but the lamp is still hanging straight. To achieve the balance there is a weight placed in the corner next closest to the wire. Not in production any more. |
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| Dimension: H 500 W 760 D 400 mm. Material: Textile, Painted MDF board, Metal chassis Description: A cupboard made of textile with zippers. TV's and stereos are very bad designed today and therefore people want to hide them away. The ZIP cupboard helps people to get writhe of them. You can hide the stereo and still use the remote control. ZIP is a light product that reduces transport cost and our environment. Prototype. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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Mallåkra
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| A sun chair for seniors! On days when everything feels difficult one longs for retirement age and lazy days in the sun chair. But when retirement finally happens, one realises that all one´s ailments make it impossible to get into or out of a sun chair. My sun chair for seniors offers a solution for this problem. Designed for the exhibition "When I get older – a furniture for my old age” at Fabriken for Kunst og Design and KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, 2007. Prototype. |
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Slim 2006 |
| An attempt to design one of the thinnest floor standing lamp in the world. The carbon fibre stick in only 7.85 mm thick. The lampshade is stitched so when the lamp is swinging from side to side the lampshade will softly follow the move. Prototype. Photo Joakim Bergstrom |
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Alcro ad.05 2005 |
| This interior was made to present the new colours Krita, Syre, Pippi and Chai for the colour company Alcro. Photo Ake E:son Lindman |
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Alcro ad.05 2005 |
| This interior was made to present the new colours Krita, Syre, Pippi and Chai for the colour company Alcro. Photo Ake E:son Lindman |
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Alcro ad.05 2005 |
| This interior was made to present the new colours Krita, Syre, Pippi and Chai for the colour company Alcro. The figure is made by Rosemarie Andersson. Photo Ake E:son Lindman |
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Move 2000 |
| Dimension: H 480 W 1200 D 600 mm. Material: Painted wood, Metal chassis. Description: A sofa table with a movable tabletop. When you push the tabletop away from you a comfortable pillow appears under the table top where you can places you feet. When the tabletop is pulled towards you the tabletop can be used for TV-dinners or for you to put your laptop on. Prototype. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson. |
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Restaurant Kaos 1997 |
| Restaurant Kaos in the old town of Stockholm was renovated with a minimum of money during our time at Konstfack, university of Design, Art and craft. Photo Fredrik Sandin carlson |
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Olympic 2001 |
| Dimension: H 800 W 1200 D 900 mm and H 800 W 1800 D 900 mm. Material: Wood, Metal chassis. Description: A stair shaped park bench for schoolyards or elsewhere. Photos Mathias Nero |
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Tablelighttable 1999 |
| Material: Chromed metal leg, Painted MDF board and second hand lampshade. Description: A coffee table, side table or bedside bed table with a inbuilt table lamp. All in one! Prototype. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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| My exam work including: A swingable chandelier. Became a part of Droog Designs exhibition "do + droog design = do create" in Milan during the furniture fair Salone del Mobile 2001. A tree step sofa, just like an arena. Perfect when you're watching football ore having a debate in you're home. Sugar Ray boxing lamp. Winner of Light of the Year 1999. And danceable table Studio 54. Photo Jens Gustafsson W-bay |
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Geoscope© 1996 |
| I choose six cities on earth, of which Stockholm is one. The other five are to be dispersed over the world. One city for each part of the world. In the centre of every city I select an open place, a square or a park. In the selected places I "plant" five cylinders, so-called Geoscopes© , in the existing ground covering. The cylinders are asymmetrically spread out over an area of about ten times ten meters. Every cylinder has that inclination towards the ground that corresponds to the angle of inclination that the cylinder would have had if it went straight through the earth to one of the other five cities. Six cities on earth that are bound together with cylinders that runs fictitiously through the earth. Inside every cylinder a camera and a projector will be placed. The camera in the cylinder that is directed towards say Havana is connected with the projector in the cylinder in Havana, which is directed towards Stockholm and vice versa. Chosen cities on earth are in this way connected together. When a person is looking into the tubes in any of the six cities she can see if there is anyone looking towards them from the other five cities. This way an immediate contact between people in those different countries is created. A person in say Vladivostok can in one moment meet a person in Chicago and in the next turn towards Mecca and connect with another world citizen. People will meet face-to-face and no one or nothing can disturb them. Economical, political, cultural ore religious antagonisms or presumptions cannot have an influence on or affect the contact in these accidentally arisen meetings. The observer meets the people of the world and becomes aware of their proximity and existence. Photo Cecilia Heisser |
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| "The Man Who Lives in The Apartment Next to You". Your neighbour? I let a man squeeze himself towards a large glass wall so it looked like I had scanned through the wall into my neighbour where he was standing trying to hear what was going on in my apartment. Art project with video and photo from the exhibition "who to live" in my apartment 2003. Photo Fredrik Sandin Carlson |
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