Johan Berhin
Johan Berhin is the designer of the series 'C' from Berhin
Studios, but he is also the father of a number of industrial
designs through the years. He has an engineering and industrial
background and got his design education at the TU Delft in Holland,
and at Domus Academy in Milano. His industrial experience has given
him good knowledge of manufacturing, but has also fed a need to
make things better - to find ways of manufacturing closer to nature
- a way of thinking that forms the base of Green Furniture
Sweden.
Johanna Hansson
Johanna Hansson graduated in 2008 from the Production and Design
school in Malmö. She has also undergone training in furniture and
interior decoration in Florence, Italy. She worked as a designer at
Berhin Studios until spring 2011. The 'Twin C' table and the 'Flour
Fellow' hemp sack are Johanna's first Green Furniture Sweden
products.
Johanna Landin
Johanna Landin, designer of "Fiction", is
currently living in Stockholm where she is getting her master
degree in interior architecture at Konstfack. Previosly, she has a
bachelor degree in architecture from Chalmers University and
studied design at HDK in Göteborg. She likes to work with
everything from architecture to furniture design and was also one
of the founders of the architecture magazine 4 ARK. Her work has
been shown in the Green House at Stockholm Furniture Fair and at
DMY Youngsters in Berlin.
AnnSofie Lennstrand Hallberg
Ann-Sofie Lennstrand Hallberg, the artist behind the print
"Gecco", was born in Stockholm but grew up in Falsterbo, where she
still resides today. Images, colors and patterns have always
interested her, and she often expresses her creativity through the
use of a wide range of media and materials. After her education,
which focused on drawing, painting and layout, Ann-Sofie spent the
next ten years as a graphic designer. Recently she also went
through a crafts training program. She was the founder of "Ateljé
Axplock", an enterprise focusing on artistic expression and the
creative process in its many incarnations.
Barbro
Wesslander
Barbro Wesslander, the artist
behind the print "Sommaräng" (summer meadow), was educated at
Beckman's Formlinje in Stockholm 1992-95, and she has also gone
through a textile education program. She resides in Stockholm where
she has worked as a freelance designer creating textile products
and items for among others Collection Pascale, IKEA, Rörstrand and
Åhléns. A long partnership with BodaNova has resulted in a large
number of glass ranges utilizing a number of decoration techniques.
Barbro also undertakes design projects together with Pia Amsell
through their joint design studio Amsell Wesslander.
Carina Niber
Carina Nibér, the artist behind the print "Kyssen" (the kiss),
was born in Malmö but spent parts of her youth in the Middle-East.
She spent the years between 1984 and 1986 at the "'L'ecole de la
Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne" in Paris, France. After
another year in the USA, she moved back to Malmö where she spent
the next ten years working in marketing and design. However, Carina
felt that this did not give her space to fully channel her ideas.
She took up painting in 1998, after she was requested to create an
exhibit.Today, the artist keeps a studio at Ribersborg in Malmö,
where she prefers to work with oil paint on large canvas. She has
held a number of exhibitions at various galleries and enterprises
around the country.
Liv Andersson
Liv Andersson finished her Master of Industrial Design at Lund
School of Design in 2008, and got a scholarship from The Region of
Scania (Region Skånes designstipendium) for her graduation project
on biodegradable caskets, "Dust to dust". In 2009 she received
second prize in the Green Furniture Award. Liv likes to dig into,
for her, unexplored areas. But you can notice a "green thread"
through her work as she wants to aim at, the unfortunately somewhat
drained but evident term; environmentally sustainable products or
services. Liv aims at using as few materials and production methods
as possible. She wants to bring research and design closer
together.
Peter Schumacher
Peter Schumacher, designer of "Leaf Lamp", studied Architecture
at the University of Adelaide and Industrial Design at the
University of South Australia. After graduation he worked for a
number of manufacturing companies and design consultancies in
Sydney and Adelaide. In 1999 he took up a lecturing position in the
Design school at the University of South Australia where he is
currently the program director for the Industrial Design degree.
Between teaching and studying for his PhD on pictorial assembly
instructions he designs and builds furniture exploring materials,
processes and construction techniques. In 2002 he received a Bronze
leaf in the International Furniture Design Competition in
Asahikawa, Japan for 'Flight screen' and was shortlisted in the
2005 competition. His furniture work has been exhibited in
Adelaide, Milan and Matra Herford, Germany.
Amy Hunting
Amy Hunting, designer of "BlockShelf", is a Norwegian
furniture designer and illustrator currently based in London. After
studying furniture design at Denmark's Design School in Copenhagen
she started working for Established & Sons in the production
and product development department. Early 2009 she began working
full time on her own furniture and freelance illustrations from her
studio in East London. She co-curated and organized 'Norwegian
Prototypes', a group exhibition of New Norwegian Design during
London Design Festival 09.
Rimgaile Samsonite
Rimgaile Samsonite, designer of "Sheep", is specializing in
interior, furniture and product design. She has graduated from
Ingvar Kamprad Design Center at Lund University, Industrial design
program. Rimgaile has also undergone interior and furniture design
education at Vilnius Art Academy. In 2008, she was awarded the
'Finalist award' in PIEp Engineering Creativity Challenge in
Stockholm. In 2009, she exhibited at 'If concept awards 2009'
exhibition in Hannover. Now she lives and works in Malmö at her own
interior and furniture design company Manö studio.
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Kazuko Okamoto
Kazuko Okamoto, designer of Coffee Cubes, born in Chiba, Japan
has a degree from Tokyo's ICS College of Arts in 1998. After
working in Japan for 14 years as a designer, she moved to Milan,
Italy were she's currently working as a freelance furniture and
product designer. In 2010 she visited Berhin Studios, and designed
the modular sofa system "Coffee Cubes", now included in the Green
Furniture Sweden Collection.
Maria Westerberg
Maria Westerberg graduated in 2008 from Konstfack's Interior
Architecture and Furniture design. Since then she has made a
recycle interior collection for the store Indiska, made conceptual
installations in fridges for a landscape architect office in
Berlin, started her own design/interior studio in Stockholm, are
attending exhibitions with her aware, expressive and playful
designs, and hosting a Swedish TV show for children with the
concept of making new things from old toys. Significant of her work
is organic shapes, using materials in a new context and often very
colorful. Her most famous work, featured in almost every Swedish
magazine and also in the international press, is "T-shirt Chair"
the winner of Green Furniture Award 2011, now in production by
Green Furniture Sweden.
La Mamba Studio
La Mamba Studio, designer of "Twin", is based in Valencia,
Spain, and is a group of 6 young designers from different origins
who emerged after finishing a master degree together in Valencia.
With several national and international awards, they have been
participating in trade shows around the world such as Milan,
Stockholm, Valencia Furniture Fairs or INDEX in Dubai. Their work
focuses basically on human experience behavior, concretely on the
understanding of the recent ways of interacting between people and
objects to create new forms and proposals in the world of
furniture. Friendly objects, the imagination of new situations,
useful products...they are the main features of their
willingness.
Peter Mäkelä
Peter Mäkelä, designer of "Love Connection", is a
passionate designer whitin the fields of furniture, product and
graphic design, and runs his own design business; Paziano Design
Studio since 2005. Between the years of 2006-2010 he ran the
design/art gallery Paziano Expo. He released his first two
collections in 2010, Crop Carpets Collection and Pride Collection -
which he got awarded the RFSL Honour Prize for the same year. 2009
he won prize for his concept piece Angel Chair at Bolia Design
Awards - this concept piece was displayed at the Länsmuseum of
Västernorrland together with the legend Nisse Strinning exhibition
in 2011. He has several wallpaper and pattern designs on the
market. To share his passion for design he was active Board member
of Svensk Form for several years. And has more than 10 years of
experience as a Art/Creative Director from advertising agencies
around Sweden.
Jan Lampei
Jan Lampei finished his master degree of industrial design at
Lund´s University in 2011. Many of his latter design projects
resulted in pieces of furniture with clever technical twists.
Sustainability, innovation and user friendliness are design values
that interests him very much. "Jar Lamp", the winner of Green
Furniture Award 2012, is his first product in production and is
part of Green Furniture Sweden's collection. Since graduation Jan
has started an own company and is involved in various design
projects.
Tomás Schön
Tomás Schön, designer of "A-board", Argentina-born, currently
living in Italy where he graduated from the Free University of
Bolzano, Design and Arts. Always interested in finding solutions,
curious and fascinated seeks inspiration from everything, in
particular from the nature which is a really useful reference for
forms, colors, materials and ideas. In continuous experimentation
in music, video, graphic and product design. Since 2010 a member of
ADI (Industrial Design Association).
Silvia Rottenberger
Silvia Rottenberger, designer of "Hangaround House", graduated
in 2000 from the Bauhaus- University in Weimar/Germany with a
diploma in Fine Arts. Coming from the artistic conception, her path
led her via working with stage design, to the applied arts. By
working as interior designer she was inspired to work on furniture
projects for serial production. In 2008 she founded her own studio
"andere räume"// interior + furniture design in Berlin, were she is
putting up eclectic furniture designs with a focus on an object
character in symbiosis with functionality.