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CLAESSON, KOIVISTO, RUNE FURNITURE DESIGN AT TOTEM TRIBECA
MAY 17 - JUNE 13, 2002
 
Totem Design – America’s foremost design driven, education enhanced multi-media
forum for good design promoted through it’s showrooms: Totem
Tribeca and Totem
Soho in Manhattan and includes Totem TV, Totem
Magazine and wwww.totemdesign.com
are pleased to announce a collaboration with Marten
Claesson, Eero Koivisto
and Ola Rune, the Swedish Triumvirate of contemporary design.
  Claesson,
Koivisto and Rune will realize their first US project with the
re-design of the Totem Tribeca Showroom located at 71 Franklin Street (Church/Broadway)
and will be featured in an exhibition of furniture designs that will be
the first retrospective of their work ever compiled. Covering projects
from 1998-2002 the products from Swedish companies such as David
Design, Swedese,
Offecct, Skandiform,
Asplund etc.
that Totem sells in the US will be exhibited along with Atelje Lyktan, Living
Divani, Nola among others, some making their first US debut.
This will be the first time that objects from various manufacturers designed
by Claesson, Koivisto and Rune will be shown in one space at the
same time. Included in the exhibition will also be prototypes and products
introduced for the first time at this exhibition and will be augmented
by images of architectural projects as well as an appearance by the designers
themselves.
  "Think rationally, but cultivate an artistic sensibility" recommended
Henry van de Velde in 1903. This is the direction chosen by three young architects, Marten
Claesson, Eero
Koivisto and Ola Rune, who have their own practice in Stockholm since 1993.
Architects, interior designers, furniture designers and teachers, they entered
the professional world with Vila Wabi, an elongated box, temporarily set into
the Sergel square (Stockholm), designed to house a family of four. Since then,
they have designed a big number of shops, showrooms, bars & restaurants, offices
and houses mostly in Sweden but also abroad. Despite an international outlook
and appeal the practice makes part of an ongoing tradition of Scandinavian design.
  The
work of Marten Claesson,
Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune provides a
recent example of the direction of Scandinavian design that will propel
you out of the myths and into the present. First and foremost, a cursory
look at their architecture and design will tell you that the principal
fact of contemporary culture is indeed part of their work: the migration
of ideas and information beyond borders. It's not that their work looks "Dutch", "American" or
anything else. However, all of those strict national distinctions are fading,
or at least losing their sharp edges wherever design culture is flourishing,
and no less so in the work of Claesson
Koivisto Rune. Thus it is
possible to speak of the new characteristics of this office's work as a
particular blend of the individual and the local with the corporate and
the universal. For example, Claesson
Koivisto Rune's non-specialized
production of both architecture and design is a working method that favors
the creation of environments as gesamtkunstwerken - total works of art
from the overall architecture to the furnishings. This ideal has a specific
Swedish expression - it is certain that the path set out by Marten
Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune will have important consequences for the
development of architecture and design in Sweden and beyond.
   
Introduction by Terence Riley (extract) from Claesson, Koivisto,
Rune - Published by G. Gili, 2001
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