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Female Designers

  • Sara Szyber's work has a strong focus on interiors and places, covering everything from exhibitions and product design to interior design. Her projects include solo productions or collaborations with established manufacturers. 

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • Pia Wallén has specialized in the development of a variety of felt products with high quality and innovative design. Her most recognized products are the felt wool slippers, the exclusive jewellery in sterling silver and the Crux blanket which comes in a limited edition.

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • A thought that runs through all Nina Jobs' designs is that form, function and material are to be combined. With a distinct and sophisticated expression, her work is timeless, elegant and adds pleasure to daily life. With a background in graphic design, Nina holds a Masters degree in product design from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs-Paris. Her design includes works in product, furniture and graphic design. Nina's work has been featured in numerous design magazines, and she has received a number of international design awards.

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • Monica Förster is one of Sweden's most internationally renowned designers. Her work is characterised by a strong sense of pure form combined with, and fuelled by, a never-ending curiosity for new materials and technology. Always working in a cross-disciplinary way, Monica invents and renews typologies within industrial, furniture and object design.

    Monica has been awarded Designer of the Year, Sweden, 2006 and 2007; Excellent Swedish Design; Design Plus in Germany; and was awarded the FutureDesigndays Award in 2002. She has also been represented in the International Design Yearbook.

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • In recent years, Carina Seth Andersson's work has been displayed at a variety of international exhibitions. Her pieces are part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 1994, Carina Seth-Andersson was chosen to represent Sweden at the Triennale in Milan. In 1998, she designed a glass object for the collection Quite Simply, as part of the Cultural Capital City project.

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • While still a design student, Cecilia Hertz went to NASA and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and showed 8,000 engineers how to build a space ambulance. Hertz used design methodology and new thinking to solve what a lot of space engineers had not even thought of.

     

     

     

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • Ann Wåhlström has studied glass-blowing and design in Sweden and at the Pilchuck Glass School in the USA and says that this has given her the best of two worlds: Swedish traditional craftsmanship and American independence from tradition. 

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    LOFT The Nordic...
  • Stockholm-based Folkform is a design studio owned and run by industrial designers Chandra Ahlsell and Anna Holmquist. They work on their own independent collections as well as with clients. Folkform has a strong focus on new areas of application for materials, and material experimentation. 

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    LOFT The Nordic...