New OFFECCT Designer: Louise Hederström

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We have initiated a new collaboration with Swedish designer Louise Hederström for 2012 year’s product launch. Louise Hederström is based in Malmö in southern Sweden. She has a degree from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm, where she was tutored by renowned Swedish designer Björn Dahlström. She has also studied at the University of [...]

New OFFECCT Designers: LÄUFER + KEICHEL - "Designing Sustainable Things"

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This year some of our products are the fruits of new collaborations with innovative designers. LÄUFER + KEICHEL is a creative partnership between Julia Läufer and Marcus Keichel. The pair has been working together since 2003. Their studio is located in the heart of Berlin. Focusing on sustainable design solutions, their disciplines range from [...]

OFFECCT Care Part 1: Design in Healthcare Environments

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The environment in health facilities is most often associated with functionality. However, research today shows that poor interior design can have negative health effects and that by producing a more sound and beautiful interior, patients as well as staff profit.

During this year OFFECCT has had its furniture introduced into a number of projects within [...]

No Christmas Without Snowflakes

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Christmas is approaching, but here in Sweden, the snow isn’t. OFFECCT Snowflakes can help you get that perfect snowy Christmassy feeling no matter the outdoor temperature.

The Snowflakes table is designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune, and is as unique as a real snowflake. Their inspiration came from photographer Wilson Bentley who devoted his career [...]

ROBO Chosen for the ADI Design Index 2011

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The OFFECCT chair ROBO by Luca Nichetto has been selected for the ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) design index 2011. The book of all designs selected for the index was presented yesterday November 30 2011.

The inclusion of ROBO in the index means that next year ROBO will have the chance to [...]

Ericsson Part 1 – The Mission

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OFFECCT is about to wrap up a great delivery to Ericsson’s offices in Tokyo and Yokohama. The project started with Ericsson moving to new offices in the two Japanese cities. Some parts of the interior were planned by architects from Gensler Associates International and they chose to use OFFECCT furniture. Scandinavian design is well known [...]

OFFECCT in the Future Domestic Space

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Future increased migration to cities combined with population growth will inevitably result in the need to optimize our use of the space around us. The eight finalists of Swedish Electrolux’s competition design lab 2010 have showed how this can be done with interesting and innovative solutions.

Lichen Guo from China has designed the “Dismount [...]

OFFECCT - Marketer of the Year!

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OFFECCT has been awarded the Marketer of the Year 2011 prize. Thanks to everyone for supporting and voting for us!

OFFECCT – Marketer of the Year

Some of our marketing activities – our mobile web, a book, our web site, printed material, USB drives, our blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – are described [...]

Grandeur by Monica Förster

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This spring OFFECCT has launched a new sofa designed by Monica Förster called GRAND.

When Monica Förster commenced the work to develop a sofa for OFFECCT the initial idea was to create a piece that conveyed the feeling of something improvised and sketched. The first ideas were transferred to a scale model where Förster worked [...]

OFFECCT Designer Profile #3: Beat Karrer

Beat Karrer was born in Zurich and this is where he has his studio and lab today. Beat is an active guest critic at ETH Zurich, lectures all over Europe, participates in juries and holds summer workshops for the Vitra Design Museum. Beat Karrer’s ideas have appeared in many publications and various books, such as [...]