The Swedish furniture manufacturer Möbelsnickarmästare Johansson is presenting its new line of products at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. This new furniture was designed by the Icelanders Guðrún Margrét Ólafsdóttir and Oddgeir Þórðarson.

A prototype of the table in the new line was shown at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last year, in a stand sponsored by the Trade Council of Iceland and the Icelandic embassy in Stockholm. That exhibition stand was part of a project which the Trade Council and the embassy launched to promote Icelandic design in Sweden. One of the achievements of the project, whose director is Christina Nilroth, is the cooperation that has now resulted between Möbelsnickarmästare Johansson and the two Icelandic designers, Guðrún Margrét and Oddgeir.

As furniture and interior designers, they operate in partnership the go form design studio in Reykjavík. Having long been involved in design for Icelandic manufacturers, their kitchen furnishings and their office furniture are already in production, in addition to their making custom designs and designing furniture for public institutions in their country. Not least, however, Guðrún Margrét and Oddgeir work as interior designers whether for firms or private individuals.

The Möbelsnickarmästare Johansson stand also presents a chair designed by Hakan Johansson, with new upholstery from the Swedish company Vaveriet. This upholstery was designed by the Icelandic designer Katrín Pétursdóttir Young, some of whose previous designs have been for another Swedish firm, Swedese.