After winning the pitch for designing the 100% Norway Stand during the London design festival 09, StokkeAustad was given the task of being the official designers for the Norwegian pavilion.
The designers have taken their inspiration from the ‘hjeller’, a scaffold structure that for centuries has been use to dry fish in many parts of Norway. The stand is such a simple A-frame cpnstruction over the entire exhibition space.
The stand is built from Kebony, a revolutionary new wood which has been treated using biowaste from the sugar industry, making it not only aesthetically wonderful, but also as hardwearing as teak, maintenance free, and environmentally sound.
StokkeAustad is also represented at 100% Norway with design on a smaller scale, with their Nora dining table for the Norwegian furniture firm Nora.
100% Norway is an exhibition presenting the latest Norwegian furniture and interior products at the London Design Festival.
100% Norway 2009 aims to showcase the best new works of both established and up-and-coming designers, and feature a number of the country’s leading manufacturers. The exhibition is curated by Henrietta Thompson, design editor with Wallpaper*, along with co-curator Benedicte Sunde from the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture.
100% Norway 2009 is organised by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Norwegian Design Council, InsideNorway and Innovation Norway.
StokkeAustad is not the only AHO related designers to be found in London this week. Product designer Daniel Rybakken, who studiet at AHO before taking his master in Göterborg, is present at the LDF- exhibition Norwegian Prototypes in the Bodhi Gallery in Brick Lane.
In this exhibition, the brightest stars of new Norwegian furniture design exhibit their work together for the very first time. The exhibition shows the work, prototypes and experiments from selected Norwegian furniture designers, which challenges conventional and traditional Norwegian furniture design which has typically been characterized by it’s clean lines, functionality and mass production.