Even if you are Swedish, you probably don't have a clue why the holiday called "Kyndelsmässodagen" is listed on your modern wall calendar. Many holidays which were once widely celebrated have now been forgotten. To counteract this collective amnesia, Jalmar Staaf, a student at Konstfack, Stockholm's Universty College of Arts, Craft and Design, created an interactive webpage called "Holiday Clock.
My idea was to combine a strict textile for a public space with a feeling of home-like lace," says designer Eva Marmbrandt about her elegant "Lasercut Lace" vertical blinds. The blinds, made of polyester plastic, won the coveted Fresh Form award at this year's home decorating trade fair in Stockholm. The prize-winning blinds are part of Marmbrandt's "Vertical Variations" collection, which she...
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