A bit late, due to a very eventful spring season, here is finally our updated pricelists for 2017. A few items that have increased a bit in price, but a lot of the items including the UN Divided furniture system, the dB cabinets, the ON low tables, and the UT tables are actually available atlower prices now, due to bigger volumes and more efficient production.
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Dimension 10 is an Oslo-based tech startup working to revolutionize the workflow for architects, engineers and designers with an app that makes it possible to work with 3D models in a realtime virtual environment. The Elementa Blog went to meet up with founder Aleksander Langmyhr to learn about their product and the future of VR.
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Eriksen Skajaa is a small Oslo based architecture studio founded by Joakim Skajaa and Arild Eriksen. By focusing on people in their work they have been able to create human friendly city development and living environments in both larger and smaller scale. We headed down to their beautiful office in Oslo to have a talk with Joakim and Arild about their approach to architecture.
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The short film Axis Coryphe by Elementa collaborators at The Molecular Ballet (^O^) is chosen for screening at the Norwegian Short Film festival in Grimstad this June.
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In recent years the reigning interior design philosophy, both in homes and in offices, has been shared, open spaces. Designed by Chris Martin, Endless is a free-standing wall of shelves that cuts through those open spaces, making room for both privacy and the objects of life and work.
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Icha chair is the last addition to the superbly beautiful neo-modernist collection known under the name Massproductions - a sturdy and elegant wooden chair fitting well both in homes and in hospitality- and meeting settings.
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Teenage engineering is one of the guiding stars in innovative, disruptive and quirky synthesizers and audio products. For the past 12 years they have pushed the limits for what synthesizers are and kept surprising the world with their wrinkled minds and strange creations born in a garage in the Swedish capital.
We had the honor of speaking with co-founder David Möllerstedt and pick his brain on their creative process and on the future of music.
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Nils Faarlund is a legendary Norwegian eco-philosopher, mountaineer and a great friend of nature. We spoke to him about the Norwegian term for outdoors life, Friluftsliv, natural materials and design.
# How would you explain the Norwegian term friluftsliv to English speakers?
In my opinion, outdoor activities in modern societies are responses to the stress, boredom and effort for building identity caused by an urban lifestyle.
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Stockholm Design Week kicks off today, and we would like to invite you to a few special shows.
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Farger & Frukter is a short film for small children (0-99y) aiming to introduce the Wonderful World of Colours. Directed by Ann Holmgren and produced by Elementa collaborators at ^O^, the film is a contemporary nod to the rich tradition of experimental Scandinavian children television form the 1970's
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Growlab is a small design studio truly dedicated to find new ways of making our cities better and more sustainable. Mads Pålsrud and Tabea Glahs founded Growlab in 2012 with a shared passion for solving social issues with design thinking. We went to talk to Mads and Tabea about how they use design and what they want to achieve with their approach.
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