Very soon the Offecct Prize 2013 will be awarded!
Yesturday the jury met at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to designate the nominees.
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Tag Archives: Stockholm
Last Chance To See l’expo Jean-Marie Massaud
The exhibition presenting our long-term partner and friend designer Jean-Marie Massaud’s work is currently on display in our Stockholm showroom. You still have the chance to see it until March 8th.
L’exposition Jean-Marie Massaud
The exhibition was inaugurated during the Stockholm Furniture Fair, and was a great success with designers, architects, retailers and many more paying a visit. This is the first time that Jean-Marie Massaud exhibits in Scandinavia, and a great opportunity to see his exciting work.
Anders Englund, Jean-Marie Massaud and Kurt Tingdal
The exhibition takes you into an emotional landscape especially designed by Jean-Marie Massaud to celebrate our on-going partnership and the release of new creations where pleasure meets responsibility.
Inauguration of the exhibition
In the exhibition you can see Massaud’s latest additions to our collection; the innovative seating furniture Airberg, the acoustic panel Soundwave® Pix and the seating system Islands.
Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud
Massaud has also designed many exciting and grand projects that are presented in the exhibition, such as the futuristic airship Zeppelin NT, and the gigantic Volcano Chivas Stadium in Mexico.
Exhibition hours: Mon – Fri 8.30 am – 5.30 pm
Closed for lunch 12 – 1 pm
OFFECCT Showroom
Torsgatan 13
Tel. +46 (0) 8 410 516 70
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The Offecct Prize Exhibition
#architecture #stockholm #kth
Earlier this month the 2012 edition of the Offecct Prize was awarded to Marios Aphram with the project “Dendron Research Station.”
The Offecct Prize was established in 2010 in order to reward a young promising architectural student at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden, in Offecct’s ambition to promote the next generation of architects.
Marios’ project and the three other nominated projects are on display in our showroom at Torsgatan 13, Stockholm, between June 12 and August 31 (closed between July 4 and August 5). Opening hours 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM (closed for lunch 12 noon – 1 pm).
The four projects selected from the 2012 OFFECCT Prize longlist were:
- DRENDON RESEARCH STATION by Marios Aphram
NOBEL CENTER by Sepideh Sarrafzadeh Zargar
CAMPUS ÅRE by Sara Silén and Victoria Söderlindh
6 CHARACTERS by Josefin Gustafsson and Dan Engberg
So if you are interested in how some of the most prominent upcoming architectures think about architecture you are more than welcome to visit us in our showroom!
Dendron Research Station
Nobel Center
Campus Åre
Six Characters
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Claesson Koivisto Rune’s New Pals
Nobis Hotel – Stockholm’s latest first class hotel – opened in late 2010.
“Located in two historic late 19th-century buildings on Norrmalmstorg square in the heart of downtown Stockholm, Nobis Hotel is an independent 201-room hotel offering every convenience and service any business and/or pleasure traveler could ever call for, in an environment of casual elegance. Our mission is to provide our guests with nothing but superior quality in every detail — plus something more in addition to that. We like to think that nothing in our hotel is standard or routine, but always with something extra to add quality to our guests’ experiences.
Nobis Hotel has been designed for optimal function, beauty, comfort and atmosphere by world renowned Swedish star architect studio Claesson Koivisto Rune, in a style of contemporary yet timeless and classic, durable elegance, mainly in natural materials of superior quality, subtly influenced by the colors, moods and features of our Swedish Royal Capital.” (source: nobishotel.com)
Nobis Hotel (photo: nobishotel.com)
The hotel’s 201 rooms are of varying sizes and one of the challenges for Claesson Koivisto Rune and OFFECCT was to develop an easy chair that would fit well in the larger as well as in the smaller rooms.
After some intense research and development the easy chair Pal is now being launched, combining two chairs in one in a cunning way. Depending on where the legs are mounted Pal can either be a larger and lower chair with a lounge character, or a smaller chair with a higher backrest.
PAL by OFFECCT and Claesson Koivisto Rune
The inspiration behind the name Pal simply comes from the English word for a friend – or a pal.
”When we saw the two versions next to each other, we realized that they reminded us of a nice couple or two very good friends who in a good way completes each other,” says Eero Koivisto.
PAL in room at Hotel Nobis (photo: nobishotel.com)
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Agent OFFECCT
Yesterday we arranged a dinner for our agents representing 12 different countries, and today an international market meeting is on the way in our Stockholm showroom.
We are delighted by the positive reactions from our agents and market people from all around the world on our new products and our new business line – O2asis.
We will tell you more about both O2asis and our new products in upcoming blog posts – until then; here are some photos from yesterday and today.
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The OFFECCT Prize Laureate #1: Daniel Johansson
Yesterday we handed out OFFECCT Priset (the OFFECCT Prize) to Daniel Johansson for his thesis Urban Corridors – a Stockholm Fantasy. The 2010 nominees were – besides Johansson – Anneli Åhlén, Anna Jacobson, Karl Johan Nyqvist & Daniel Sundlin and Caroline Csemiczky.
OFFECCT Priset is established to reward a young promising architectural student at the School of Architecture at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in our ambition to promote the next generation of architects.
The selection of the five nominated architect students’ theses have been made by a competent and renowned jury led by Thomas Sandell. This year’s jury consisted of Thomas Sandell from sandellsandberg, Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård from Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, Anna Pang from KTH and Patrik Persson from OFFECCT. The jury’s statement reads:
“The project Urban Corridors – a Stockholm Fantasy is a challenging and thought-provoking architectural project. It has its origins in a historical analysis of the emergence of Stockholm where the relationship between land and water has constantly been changed by man as well as nature.
The project proposes the development of Stockholm under the water surface in submerged structures. Powerful images communicate this possible future and jump-start the viewer’s imagination.
The project moves between reality and fiction and discusses what architecture could be.
A very convincing, conscious and visionary project that leaves us with the idea that what is fantasy today is reality tomorrow.”
Below are some pictures from the well attended and appreciated prize ceremony.
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The five nominees and the winner is displayed in an exhibition at the OFFECCT Showroom in Stockholm throughout the summer. Welcome to Torsgatan 13!
Grand Opening and Inside Information
2009 was a good year for OFFECCT, with exciting new products, increased sales worldwide, and showrooms established in Stockhom and Oslo. 2010 is looking very promising, and what better way to celebrate OFFECCT’s 20th anniversary – as well as the start of the 2010 edition of the Stockholm Design Week – than to open up an exhibtion of Italian designer Luca Nichetto’s designs in our Stockholm showroom?
We will soon present Luca’s work in more detail in a separate blog post, but everyone present at tonight’s opening was impressed by the innovative character of Luca’s designs.
We are truly happy that tonight’s exhibition was well-attended, especially so since so many of our appreciated designers gave the audience a first glimpse of their novelties. Today we had the opportunity to listen to – besides Luca Nichetto – Eero Koivisto, Patrick Norguet, Björn Dahlström, Monica Förster, Ingunn Eikeland Bjørkelo and Carlos Tiscar presenting their work, and we will share our impressions in future blog posts.
We have started the OFFECCT blog so that we can give you some more insights into the work of our designers as well as sharing our core values and driving forces behind our company. So please make sure that you will return to this blog, and a nice way to make sure that you wont miss out on any inside information is to follow us on Twitter. Just add us on twitter.com/offecct and “we will get back to you.”
