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Jakob Wagner is one of Scandinavia’s foremost designers at present, and he is one of only a handful to have exhibited at some of the biggest museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York with the Propeller Trivet from Menu.
Jakob is motivated by his love of meaningful shapes. He works at the balancing point between contrasting visual expressions: Masculine/feminine, organic/geometric, symmetric/asymmetric etc. “It brings the object to life, challenges our senses and appeals to our feelings,” he says – and it is this very approach that makes him so enjoyable to work with [... mehr]
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Claesson, Koivisto & Rune
The Swedes are back and contemporary history notwithstanding; the current Nordic triumvirate invading the world go by the names Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune. Exhibiting dogged dynamism the trio has almost single- handedly created a global design legacy in only a few short years. You won't hear them admit it, but consider an amazing oeuvre for a small office working a few steps off the street in a lower level former sausage factory in the middle of Stockholm. Within the last four or five years the team has designed over a dozen private homes, bouti[... mehr]
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