Eco-sofa

Photos by Pelle Wahlgren

Norrgavel’s www.norrgavel.se latest sofa (soffa 100, available from March) has a good strong presence but is wonderfully comfortable nevertheless. That is it made with 100% natural materials and carries the Nordic Ecolabel which makes it easy on the environment too, www.svanen.nu.

You can buy the cushions seperately, too.

Byarum

Made with 100% recycled aluminium, these beautiful new planters by Byarums Bruk, http://www.byarumsbruk.se/, are designed by the grande dame of Swedish pottery, Signe Persson-Melin www.scandinaviandesign.com/signePerssonMelin/. The poetic photos below, by talented Per Ranung, http://www.ranung.se/, also give you an idea of the current weather up here in Scandyland (see previous post).

The grass is greener

Ok, so this one is not very Scandinavian, I know. But I tell you,living plants (with verdant leaves) is what us Scandies long for at this time of year!

The Brazilian landscaper and artist Roberto Burle Marx, was recently brought to my attention by a good friend of mine who has just come back from Rio.

There is a wonderful exhibition there devoted to the work of Burle Marx that runs through March at the Paço Imperial museum http://www.pacoimperial.com.br/. See article in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/arts/design/21burl.html

Do go see if you have the chance, I know I would love to!

Do you have cable?

Visited the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week and stumbled on a lovely mini-trend which i call "why-hide-the-appliance-cable-away-when-it-looks-this-good ?
Erika Lövqvist has designed these poetic Water Lily lamps and showed the in the the UNG7 exhibition in the Green Room, http://www.ung7.se/

In this next one the cable is, in fact, the appliance.
It is a radiator by Hedvig Af Ekenstam who also participated in UNG7.

This pretty cluster is by the classic Danish company Le Klint but I think the braded cable is gives this light a new dimension www.leklint.com .

The last pic (below) shows colorful lamp cable from www.frinab.se , an electrical company who specialize in unusual and good looking lighting cable. If you want to have your own cable design made up, their the company for you.