For the sixth year in a row, students from Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB) participate in the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009. 15 students exhibit at stand V01:30, in Greenhouse, from 4 to 8 February 2009.
The design students exhibit the result of a thirteen-week project period in which the first part of the task was to transform an old grain silo at Hegreneset in Bergen into a hotel. In the second part the students came up with furniture ideas for their individual hotel interiors and developed them into full-scale prototypes. These are to be exhibited at the Furniture Fair in Stockholm. The prototypes are made by the students, mainly in the Academy's workshops.
Also this year, it is the third-year BA students in design who exhibit at the Furniture Fair.
- Valuable contacts
- We have excellent experience from exhibiting at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, says project leader Professor Dave Vikøren. – The Fair is a good arena for the students to compare their works with those of other Scandinavian design academies and to show their ideas to furniture manufacturers, the press, interior architects and to get feedback from the professional environment.
Vikøren continues: - Valuable contacts are made, and each year some of the objects are even picked up by manufacturers.
The lamp "We're all the same but different", designed by Jonas Norheim is nominated for the "Forum Aid Award."
Two of the students, Erlend Bleken and Anders Berg, exhibit five prototypes at their own stand in Greenhouse in addition to taking part at the KHiB stand.
Four students; Ingunn Eikeland, Kristine Holtås, Morten Skjærpe Knarrum and Kristine Støversten, have designed and built the stand. Anders Berg, Marius M. Bjørnsen, Are-Dag Eriksen and Morten Skjærpe Knarrum are responsible for printed material and digital information.
Pictures of the prototypes
Click here to download High-Res photos of the prototypes free of charge. Please give credit to our photographer Bjarte Bjørkum.
Press contacts
KHiB press conference
KHiBs press conference takes place on Thursday 5 February at stand V01:30 in Greenhouse.
Teachers
Project leader Professor Dave Vikøren
Professor II Steinar Hindenes
Assistant professor and wood workshop manager Øivind Eide
Metal workshop manager Svein Orrebakken
The following design students from KHiB participate:
ELI THERESE PETERSEN
”Doobie”
Doobie is a chair with focus on private space and comfort while sitting in a public area.
MARIUS M. BJØRNSEN
”We Get Along”
Lounge chair. Steel tube construction with seat and back in cured organic leather .
KRISTINE STØVERSTEN
”Maple”
This pendant lamp gives you a feeling of looking into a tree crown, escaping from the everyday noise.
KRISTINE HOLTÅS
"Woody”
Lounge chair of solid wood ash with padded seat and back. Suitable for both contract and domestic market.
ERLEND BLEKEN
"Half pipe”
A spacious “one and a half” chair for comfortable lounging. Wool upholstery. Foam fill. Upholstered with steel base.
JAN EINAR HELLESEN
”Al”
Versatile all-round chair, designed for use in business situations and private homes.
LILLIAN SHARMA
”In between”
By this lounge chair I have emphasized a simple geometric expression. Upholstered seat and back and coated steel base. For both contract and domestic situations.
MORTEN SKJÆRPE KNARRUM
”Mingle”
Mingle is a modular seating system for public spaces. Mingle as you wish.
ARE-DAG WAGTSKJOLD ERIKSEN
"Hatch”
Lounge: to act or move idly or lazy. Hatch is a lounge chair designed to accommodate appropriate sitting positions for lounging sessions.
INGUNN EIKELAND
”Pytt”
Pytt is a low lounge table. The idea was to visualize a raindrop as it breaches the surface of a puddle.
HALVOR EIDE
”Spin”
Lounge chair in laminated maple and wool upholstery aiming to simplify the occasional mingling in an open social landscape.
JONAS NORHEIM
“Mr. Ljungberg”
Indulge yourself. Made out of maple.
ANDERS BERG
”Say-O”
Lounge chair made of 3D veneer, solid aluminium and stainless steel.
YVONNE FINELL
”Hampus and toy”
Hampus and toy are good looking and fun. Much like the way you’d like to be. Simple, functional and with attitude. Put an exclamation mark in your living room. With or without legs, on the wall, in the hall. Shoes, books, DVD’s and ugly porcelain figures. Accessorise your white wall, or put a frame on your gorgeous wallpaper. It is storage furniture at it’s thesimplest and best - with a sprinkle of personality.
ANNE AHRENDT LAURSEN
”MY-furniture”
Exchange student Danmarks Designskole.
My-furniture is the child’s furniture, which provides the child with space for absorption, play and learning. The simple knock down construction of MY-furniture is practical, and when the child becomes older, a part of playing and learning. MY-furniture’s pure expression, and the complex form in classical Danish birch, leads us back to the roots with a contemporary twist.
Dept of Design at KHiB
The BA in Design provides a basic and varied professional design competence aimed at solving complex design issues. Specialisation is offered in the areas of Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture and Visual Communication. The objectives of the programme range from technical mastery in various disciplines to the development of strategic skills and innovation in the field of design. This programme is distinguished by the fact that the Dept of Design is located within an academic arts institution and features an emphasis on aesthetic fields and interdisciplinary collaboration. At the same time, the development of solid technical skills, marketing and professional expertise is also underscored.
What gives the BA study programme in Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture its distinctiveness and strength lies in its understanding of the effect of space on the furniture and other objects that occupy it – and vice versa. In other words, furniture and objects must work visually and functionally in terms of the spaces for which they are intended – and in terms of the people that are going to use them. Similarly, a particular space provides the visual and functional frame for the furniture and objects as well as the people who use it. The programme therefore investigates spatial solutions and constructions for open and enclosed private and public spaces.
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