Six emerging designers to look out for at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025
Although originally conceived as a way for Swedish manufacturers to launch products, Stockholm Furniture Fair now shines an almost equally sized spotlight on young, up-and-coming designers. Below, we've picked the ones to watch for 2025.
Taking place from 4 to 8 February, Stockholm Furniture Fair (SFF) is Scandinavia's biggest design fair and the anchor event of Stockholm Design Week.
For work by emerging talents, head to the Greenhouse area in Hall C and Hanna Nova Beatrice's collectible design exhibition Älvsjö Gård in Hall A – and read on for six promising names to look out for while you're there.
Chinese firm Studio Ololoo blew up with the release of its debut product – an adjustable, inflatable lamp that won first prize at the 2024 SaloneSatellite Awards.
Work and life partners Jaco Qian and Zhen Bian, who met by chance at a concert of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, have gone on to create a vase and the Dezeen Award-winning Bubble Stool following the same principle.
The furniture of Finnish designer Jonas Lutz bears the marks of his paradoxical education – first in traditional woodwork at the Carl Malmsten School and later in the more left-field approach of the Design Academy Eindhoven.
The resulting pieces fuse Nordic design tropes with experimental techniques and have graced Austria's Schloss Hollenegg, New York's Collectible design fair and Sabine Marcelis's Vitra Loft before landing at the Älvsjö Gård exhibition at SFF.
Simon Skinner originally burst onto the scene in 2019 with Afropicks – a range of hair combs exploring the Black Swedish experience that captivated the design press and were promptly acquired by the Swedish National Museum.
More recently, Skinner has focused on subverting traditional design objects, making lamps from a collage of 19th-century glassware (top and above) and reimagining upholstered furniture for this year's Älvsjö Gård exhibition.
Among the standout projects from this year's Ung Svensk Form exhibition for young Swedish design is a couch composed of wooden studs that Konstfack graduate Nils Askhagen salvaged from a demolished building in Kungsholmen.
The design explores how standardised industrial waste materials could be used to create affordable mass-produced furniture "without needing to fell a single tree".
A 3D printer coaxes clay into elaborate, algorithmically designed forms in the signature production process of Malmö studio Polymorf. Founders Johanna Jonsson and Albin Karlsson started small, with homeware objects sold via Ssense, but are now investigating architectural applications with their Greenhouse pavilion.
The structure incorporates ceramic structural joints that eliminate the need for adhesives and allow the installation to be easily dismantled and adapted.
Ceramicist Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson originally trained as a nurse before discovering her affinity for clay.
Her Konstfack graduation project, selected for this year's Ung Svensk Form exhibition, features a tapestry woven from hair extensions and ceramic versions of traditional Ghanaian asesedwa stools. Delicately hand-built, they are finished with a glaze made from the ashes of her grandfather's orange tree to explore ideas around family and heritage.
This article was originally created for our Dezeen Dispatch magazine for Stockholm Design Week 2025, which is taking place from 3-9 February in locations across the Swedish capital.
See our Stockholm Design Week 2025 guide on Dezeen Events Guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.
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