Stockholm Design Week 2019.

February 13, 2023

Stockholm Design Week 2019 and the the opening of the exhibition 1980s.

The Museum of Furniture Studies attended the 2019 Stockholm Design Week by opening the exhibition 1980s. The exhibition reflected a new era in international design, brought forward by the Memphis Milano group in 1981. The museum also highlighted how the Italian anti-design movement and its protest against modernism was reflected by Nordic and European designers.

Designer of the month
Yngve Ekström

Yngve Ekström founded the company ESE-möbler together with his brother Jerker Ekström and their friend Bertil Sjöqvist in 1945. The company later changed name to Swedese and is well known for producing the armchair Lamino designed by Ekström in 1956.

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