Design Joy : Örnsbergsauktionen

It's a fresh year and Stockholm Design Week is the first in a flow of design weeks. It's completely unnecessary to talk about the combination of Sweden / Scandinavia and Design, so let me introduce you with Örnsbergsauktionen. It's an auction concept started in 2012 by designers Kristoffer Sundin, Fredrik Paulsen and Simon Klenell who want to give (often young) designers a platform to show prototypes, unique designs or limited editions and sell them to the highest bidder.

What you can see below is a selection of my favorites out of the 53 objects, for full information and starting prices, check the website.

• LÄDER (2014), NÄVER (2010) - Sophia Lithell - Leather, painted steel & Birch bark, painted steel

• CRYSTALLIZATION NO. 21 VASE (2014) - Lukas Wegwerth - Crystallization

• MILAGROS FOR THE INJURED (2014) - Anna Tascha Larsson - Silver, silver-plated brass & copper 

• TRUE COLORS (2013) - LexPott - Brass and black patina, Aluminium and white oxide, Copper and blue oxide

• EURYDIKE (2014) - Katja Pettersson - Wood, marble, mirror

• FOOD COLOURING CUSHION (2014) - Sundin / Persson - Wool yarn, Kool-Aid

• NAZCA/COCOS (2014) - Hilda Hellström - Pigmented jesmonite, copper plated steel 

• TEXTILE MOULDED GLASS (2014) - Silo studio - Borosilicate glass

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• STORA SPELET (2014) - Sara Lundkvist - Hot worked and kiln cast glass, suede

• ORDINARY PIXEL (2014) - Anna Nordström - Cotton, polyester

• FOAM CHINA LIGHT (2013) - Marjan van Aubel - Foam porcelain

• GRAIN (2012) - Johanna Friedman - Mercericed Cotton

Nice fact: the last bidding starts at 1 SEK and goes to the gavel, which closes the auction in a symbolic way.

• ÖA HAMMER 2014 - Simon Klenell, Fredrik Paulsen, Kristoffer Sundin - Glass, burled birch