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Dubai Wood Show confirms Swedish wood’s strong position in the region

The Dubai Wood Show was held on 4-6 April this year. The event is the biggest trade fair for timber products in the Middle East and North Africa region, although it also attracts visitors from India, Pakistan and East Africa. The MENA region is a key market for Swedish sawmill exports and Swedish Wood attended the trade fair for the third time, together with representatives from Swedish sawmills.Sweden is the largest exporter of pine and spruce to the MENA region. Russia is in second place and Finland third. In 2015, Sweden exported 3.2 million cubic metres of pine and spruce to the MENA

Råå Preschool wins the Swedish Timber Prize 2016

On 9 March Råå Preschool in Helsingborg was declared the winner of the Swedish Timber Prize 2016, one of Sweden’s best known architectural prizes, which is awarded to a building that represents good Swedish architecture in wood and that reflects and improves the times we live in. On Wednesday the prizewinner was presented with the Golden Horse trophy and prize money of SEK 100,000.The unanimous jury explains its choice as follows: “Råå Preschool is a great example of high ambitions from the client and the architect, with regard to designing an inspiring environment and scale on the

The pine lamp – a bright new take on an old favourite

For most people, the pine lamp is synonymous with the 1970s. This year, final year students at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies in Sweden were tasked with producing eight groundbreaking lamps in Swedish pine that are fit for life in 2016. The project is a collaboration between Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies, lighting company Ateljé Lyktan and Swedish Wood.Applying their experimental work on light, the students at the school of furniture design have made their design ideas come to life in the Woodlights project. Swedish Wood provided Swedish pine for the project and the result has been eight

Swedish pine meets Chinese furniture design

What happens when a group of Chinese designers visit Sweden, take in the Swedish nature, culture and lifestyle and then travel back to China and create furniture in Swedish pine for Chinese consumers? This was the premise of Swedish Wood’s project “Design for Sustainable Living” and the outcome has been an unusual journey, culminating in the unveiling of unique furniture at an exhibition in Shanghai on 20 January.“Design for Sustainable Living” is a collaborative project involving Swedish Wood and seven leading Chinese designers. The aim of the project is to increase their knowledge of how

The Nominated for the Swedish Timber Prize 2016

Swedish Wood will be announcing the 12th Swedish Timber Prize, in Sweden entitled “Träpriset”, architecture award on 9 March 2016. The jury has considered the 139 entries that were submitted by the deadline in January 2015. The competition is open to any type of structure, as long as wood forms a significant part of the design. It has to be fully completed, no more than four years old and available for the Swedish Timber Prize jury to visit.The entries have been judged for the way they broadly meet the requirements of good architecture. The focus is on the actual site and the way the

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