Great Days at the Clerkenwell Design Week

We are now back from the Clerkenwell Design Week in London. We are very happy with the days spent in London meeting and talking to many of our friends and partners!

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Our stand at the Clerkenwell Design Week

While in London we presented our product line along with our latest additions such as the table Circus and the series of seating furniture Studio, and took the opportunity to talk to all the visitors and listen to their needs and ideas.

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Smallroom by Ineke Hans at the Offecct stand at Clerkenwell

Smallroom, that you can see above, is a sofa that goes along the lines of the successful O2ASIS initiative. Smallroomcan be used together in different modules or standing alone.  The design of Smallroomis characterized by a “box” on the side which can be used for placing plants or as a working surface with optional power devices. The back of the sofa can be compared to a high wall functioning as a sort of protection when one is seated, and creates the impression of a smaller room. However, the height of the back is not compromising with the volume of the surrounding room.

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Tjhe sofa Linea by Luca Nichetto at the Offecct stand at Clerkenwell

The sofa Linea, in the picture, is designed by Luca Nichetto. The original idea to the sofa Linea Luca Nichetto got from The Line, an Italian animated TV-show he used to watch as a child. With this inspiration Nichetto wanted to create a sofa with a back, when combined in greater numbers, forms a line that creates continuity. The possibility to combine modules to a greater entirety gives architects and interior designers the opportunity to play with the product and its lines. The sofa is available in two sizes; two or three seater. Small tables link the sofas together and provide functionality. This makes Linea adaptable and possible to use in large as well as small rooms.

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Offecct at Clerkenwell

Some of our designers also came by to talk to us and all the other visitors, which made us very happy.

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Offecct Prize 2013 Approaching

Very soon the Offecct Prize 2013 will be awarded!

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Yesturday the jury met at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to designate the nominees.

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Clerkenwell Design Week Coming Up

Next week we will be participating at the 2013 edition of the Clerkenwell Design Week – the UK’s leading independent design festival. The festival is located in and around Clerkenwell, London, and is open 21st- 23rd May from 10 am – 9pm. We will exhibit in the Farmiloe Building. Please come and say hello and chat if you have the opportunity!

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At the festival we will present many new and exciting products from renowned designers such as Cate&Nelson, Formfjord, Jean-Marie Massaud, Knudsen Berg Hindenes, Luca Nichetto, Mattias Stenberg, Nendo, Richard Hutten and UNStudio.

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Carry On by Mattias Stenberg / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

We are also proud to present OFFECCT LAB, a new strategic initiative designed to concentrate our efforts in the development of new solutions and new products. The two first tangible results of OFFECCT LAB are AIRBERG and CAPE. AIRBERG is a challenging piece of seating furniture designed by famous French designer Jean-Marie Massaud and a result of experimenting with new seating typologies. Cape, design by one of the greatest names on the contemporary design scene; the Japanese designer Nendo, is a complex chair with an elegant look and extremely thin dimensions.

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The series Studio by UNStudio

Besides the experimental LAB venture we also present the UPGRADES-13 initiative which includes the OFFECCT SELECTED PATTERNSTM and OFFECCT FLEXICOLOUR. SELECTED PATTERNSTM and FLEXICOLOUR are Offecct’s new concepts for optimal customization. SELECTED PATTERNSTM includes OFFECCT PATTERNS and OFFECCT STITCHES.

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Offecct Selected Patterns

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Italian Evening at Our Showroom

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming our designer Luca Nichetto to our showroom in Stockholm for an inspirational evening.

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Luca Nichetto speking about design

During the evening Luca spoke to the spectators about what design means to him, what inspires him, and how his design process functions.

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Italian evening at our showroom

Additionally, he spoke about his cooperation with Offecct, and the products that have come out of this strong and long-lasting collaboration.

To accompany the Italian theme of our evening, everyone could enjoy a Bellini, a drink made from puréed white peaches and Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine. The Bellini was invented in Venice sometime during the first half of the 1900s, and thu s comes from the same town as Luca himself!

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Bellinis at the Offecct Showroom

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Portable Seating Solutions With CARRY ON

One of the novelties we are currently presenting at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile is Mattias Stenberg’s creation Carry On. Carry On is a portable seating solution that works perfectly by itself but also as a complement to other products. Designer Mattias Stenberg has a strong belief in the need of flexible working places in the public space. Today we work more in projects and need environments that can be easily adapted to different needs.

Carry On by Mattias Stenberg / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Carry On by Mattias Stenberg / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

- Carry On offers the possibility to sit down in an environment where you might not usually sit, says Mattias Stenberg.

Carry On is not only physically flexible; it also signals to the user how it should be used by the handle on top.

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Mattias Stenberg

- This type of furniture also signals flexibility in how you work and your mindset and shows how the company views the importance of interactivity at large, Stenberg continues.

Mattias Stenberg, born 1975, is a Swedish designer with a degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2010 he founded his studio Vision A&D that focuses on contemporary architecture and design.

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Flexible Interiors With ISLANDS

We are currently showcasing our new products in Milan, and one of them is Jean-Marie Massaud’s Islands. Islands is a system of seating furniture that creates the feeling of small islands or coral reefs and provides space for informal meetings, while shielding the people sitting on an ”island” from those sitting on the adjacent ”islands” with the help of different materials and different heights.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

This feeling can also be enhanced by plants placed at designated spaces in the furniture. Different seating levels and different materials give the furniture flexibility and do not lock the user to a certain behavior.

With Islands Jean-Marie Massaud wants to reformulate public interiors such as waiting areas and lobbies. In order to achieve this Massaud has created a flexible and functional furniture system that easily can be adjusted to different surroundings and contexts.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

- Islands is not a classical piece of seating furniture; it is more abstract with different parts that together form an entirety. It stands for innovation, says Jean-Marie Massaud.

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

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Sound absorbing SOUNDWAVE® PIX

In Milan at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile we are currently presenting the news of 2013. On of these novelties is the sound absorbing panel Soundwave® Pix, created by the French designer Jean-Marie Massaud.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

Soundwave® Pix provides architects with the possibility to create unique rooms by offering the option to combine colors and forms in different ways. Soundwave® Pix complements the sound absorbing function with the potential of esthetic variation in terms of the color and form options. The design of Pix in itself is a reminder of keys on a keyboard, and radiates a sense of recognition that also surprises.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Jean-Marie Massaud innovates with AIRBERG

Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud is currently being presented to visitors at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Airberg is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions, and one of the first results that come out of the work at Offecct Lab, our strategic initiative designed to concentrate our efforts in the development of new solutions and new products.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

The inspiration behind the form of Airberg is a combination of a comfortable, inviting piece of seating furniture and an iceberg filled with vacuum. The furniture’s abstract form is light in its expression and Airberg is contemporary both in its design and in the technique used. Airberg consists of a structural case which gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material.

Airberg is not ready for production yet, but should be seen as a result of an ongoing research and development process where Offecct and Jean-Marie Massaud dared to develop a piece of seating furniture for the meeting places of the future.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Soundwave® STAND by Richard Hutten

In Milan we are currently presenting the new products of 2013, such as Soundwave® Stand by Richard Hutten. Soundwave® Stand is a new tool for architects and consists of a frame onto which all Offecct’s sound panels in the Soundwave®-series can be fixed. The device fits discretely into all environments without being seen – instead it accentuates the panels used.

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The design of Soundwave® Stand is very closely connected to Hutten’s own design concept “No Sign of Design” where the products should feel entirely natural in its surrounding.

Soundwave® Stand makes it possible to create room within a room and give spatial direction and is an important tool for the so called A2-concept where activities dictate the working area which can easily be formed after the needs that arise. Soundwave® Stand and the Soundwave panels can be combined in infinite ways and provides architects with great possibilities for variation in many environments.

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Richard Hutten

Richard Hutten is an internationally renowned Dutch designer with a degree from the Academy Industrial Design in Eindhoven. In 1991 Hutten started his own design studio, working on a variety of projects such as: furniture-, product-, interior- and exhibition design. Hutten is part of the very successful and influential generation of designers that emerged in Holland during the 1990s and onwards.

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The Chair BOP

In Milan at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile we are currently presenting the news of 2013. The chair Bop is one of them, and has been developed in collaboration with Norwegian design bureau Knudsen Berg Hindenes.

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Bop by Knudsen Berg Hindenes

Originally, Bop was designed for USF Verftet, an arts arena for music, theater, film and modern art in Bergen, Norway. USF was established in 1993 and is an important actor within arts and culture in Bergen and Norway with the aim of collaborating, strengthening and participating in the development of culture and creativity.

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Bop by Knudsen Berg Hindenes / Photo: Frederik Lieberath

– When we were redoing the cultural center and creating a larger concert hall we wanted a new concert chair. The development has been a close process between us here at the cultural center, the designers and Offecct, says Jon Tvilde, Head of the cultural center.

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Knudsen Berg Hindenes

Knudsen Berg Hindenes is a Norwegian award winning design bureau consisting of Norwegian designers Petter Knudsen, Anders Berg and Steinar Hindenes. They are all educated at Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Knudsen Berg Hindenes mainly works with furniture, product- and interior designs, but is also involved in a series of project based design initiatives.

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