Stockholm Furniture Fair is excited to announce Kustaa Saksi as the Guest Creative for the 2025 edition, marking the first time the fair is inviting a creative visionary to craft the fair's artwork. Kustaa Saksi, an internationally celebrated Finnish textile artist and designer, has created the visuals for the 2025 event, drawing inspiration from his creative journey and the fair's overarching theme, Connecting the Dots.
Stockholm Furniture Fair's collaboration with acclaimed Finnish artist and designer Kustaa Saksi, who has created a series of images especially commissioned for the upcoming 2025 event, is part of the fair's continued ambition to broaden its scope to new disciplines and redefine the idea of what a trade fair can be.
Kustaa Saksi has established himself as a leading figure in the intersection of art and design, earning widespread recognition for his innovative work which merges jacquard weaving techniques with materials such as wool, rubber, and metal. Over the years, Saksi has collaborated with renowned Scandinavian furniture brands like Nikari and Swedese, creating a special edition fabric for Yngve Engström's classic Lamino chair, among other projects. He has also worked with global fashion brands including Hermès, Nike, Issey Miyake, and Marimekko, and his work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Design Museum.
In his works for Stockholm Furniture Fair, Saksi revisits his roots as a graphic designer. The images draw inspiration from a designer's creative journey, with its many phases and sources of inspiration.
'Every designer has a shelf filled with methods and ideas, and their designs are born out of those elements. Some come from their fantasy, some are inspired by different sources, some are results of experiments. There are versions after versions. Hopefully, these images enable the viewer to explore the design process leading to the end product on a deeper level, showing a designer's everyday work,' Saksi says.
Under the theme Connecting the Dots, Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 will explore the web of cross-cultural and multidisciplinary influences that shape contemporary design. In addition to architecture, furniture, and lighting design, the fair will highlight various other creative fields, including fashion and artisan craft.
Stockholm Design Week, organised by Stockholm Furniture Fair, runs in parallel with the fair in February and engages the whole city. The upcoming design week will be held February 3-9, 2025.
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