Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren met at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and since then have gone on to realise a whole world of idiosyncratic designs as Front. On the one hand Front love to provoke, an early furniture collection being created according to the motto "furniture that one loves at first sight or hates forever." A collection which includes the distinctive Rabbit Lamp for Dutch brand Moooi. While on the other hand Front have established an international reputation for their experiments and design projects, projects which often employ computer technology or innovative engineering to imbue them with a unique wit and futuristic elegance.
Front Design
Over the years Stockholm based design studio Front a.k.a. Anna Lindgren and Sofia Lagerkvist (and, back in the day, also Katja Sävström and Charlotte von der Lancken) have oft employed chance as a design tool, have oft employed an essentially surrealist...
According to Germanic folklore, A cold and wet June spoils the whole year. For farmers possibly, but not for the rest of us, as a cold, wet June is a perfect excuse to visit an architecture or design exhibition, an experience that can only enrich and enliven...
...And that via projects as varied as a newspaper/magazine rack for the Kartelli of Lombarby formed by freezing a magazine whose pages are being flicked through in that idle manner people flick through, without ever intending to read, those glossy interior design magazines whose front page can be so neatly framed in the af Front rack; a vase design process developed for the Siyazama community in KwaZulu-Natal which enables the story of the individual creative responsible to be told literally rather than figuratively, and thus more accessibly and durably told; or a wooden bench for the Casa di Moroso in the remote dominion of Tavagnà...
As part of Stockholm Design Week 2011 Kartell presented the magazine rack Front Page by Stockholm design studio Front. Clever word play and all..... Although formally launched at Milan 2010 Front Page is only now making it's way into the shops and as such...
The Top 5 Lamps from the smow design spring. In no particular order. Kete by David Turnbridge. One of the first lamps we saw in Milan, and probably that which left the greatest impression on us. And not merely on account of its size. For us the principle...
