May 22, 2009

VANN - combined seat and light fixture for outdoors from ELI GNOSJÖ AB

Filed under: Environmental, Furniture, Sweden — Igor Polyakov @ 6:10 pm

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During Elfack Fair in Gothenburg traditionally organized Elfack Design Award design competition. Among 16 selected contributions the VANN project was selected as winner . The jury, which has selected contributions are Kaj Abbe Herd, Region Manager for SVID (Swedish Industrial Design Foundation) and Kalle Klockars, Studio Manager at Propeller. They describe the product as “smart, well made and the Nordic light”.

Vann is a new type of product that works as furniture and light fixture. Applications are all types of outdoor environments where you want to create a decorative environment that combines furniture and lighting. The fixture, or the podium if you like, have a seat of iroccoträ, a weather-resistant woods that have the same properties as teak. A frame is constructed of painted aluminum strips that create a decorative grill. The light source comes from a 20W halogen lamp. The fixture is custom designed for the terraces to the newly renovated hotel, conference and spa facilities Vann (www.vann.se) outside Lysekil.

Design Jonas Werning & Tor Olsson, Phosforos Lighting (www.phosforos.com) More info: www.elignosjoab.se


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