Designers




Johan Berhin

Johan is the designer of the series ‘C’ from Berhin Studios, but he is also the father of a number of industrial designs through the years. He has an engineering and industrial background and got his design education at the TU Delft in Holland and at Domus Academy in Milano. His industrial experience has given him good knowledge of manufacturing but has also fed a need to make things better – to find ways of manufacturing closer to nature – a way of thinking that forms the base of Green Furniture Sweden.


Manolo Bossi

Specialized in Interior Design, Marketing and Industrial Design (Domus Academy), From 2001 he works in design oriented areas with Bosa Ceramiche, Progetti, Sphaus. In 2006 he was invited at "MINI DESIGN AWARD", competition reserved to 100 best young Italian designers and organized by BMW. He received special mention in the competition "2x1" and "L'intelligenza dei sensi", both supported by ADI Association. In 2007, his ceramic design was present at 100% Design, London. In 2009, at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, he was the winner of the first prize in the “GREEN FURNITURE AWARD”.

 

Johanna Hansson

Johanna is a recent graduate (2008) from the Production and Design school in Malmö. She has also undergone training in furniture and interior decoration in Florence, Italy. She lives in Malmö where she works as a designer at Berhin Studios. The ’Twin C’ table and the ’Flour Fellow’ hemp sack are Johanna’s first Green Furniture Sweden products.

 


Johanna Landin

Johanna Landin is currently living in Stockholm where she is getting her master degree in interior architecture at Konstfack. Previosly, she has a bachelor degree in architecture from Chalmers University and studied design at HDK in Göteborg. She likes to work with everything from architecture to furniture design and was also one of the founders of the architecture magazine 4 ARK. Her work has been shown in the Green House at Stockholm Furniture Fair and at DMY Youngsters in Berlin.


AnnSofie Lennstrand Hallberg

Ann-Sofie was born in Stockholm but grew up in Falsterbo, where she still resides today. Images, colour and patterns have always interested her, and she often expresses her creativity through the use of a wide range of media and materials. After her education, which focused on drawing, painting and layout, Ann-Sofie spent the next ten years as a graphic designer. Recently she also went through a crafts training program. She was the founder of "Ateljé Axplock", an enterprise focusing on artistic expression and the creative process in its many incarnations.


Carina Niber

Carina Nibér was born in Malmö but spent parts of her youth in the Middle-East. She spent the years between 1984 and 1986 at the “’L’ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne” in Paris, France. After another year in the USA, she moved back to Malmö where she spent the next ten years working in marketing and design. However, Carina felt that this did not give her space to fully channel her ideas. She took up painting in 1998, after she was requested to create an exhibit.
Today, the artist keeps a studio at Ribersborg in Malmö, where she prefers to work with oil paint on large canvas. She has held a number of exhibitions at various galleries and enterprises around the country.

Barbro Wesslander


Barbro Wesslander was educated at Beckman’s Formlinje in Stockholm 1992-95, and she has also gone through a textile education program. She resides in Stockholm where she has worked as a freelance designer creating textile products and items for among others Collection Pascale, IKEA, Rörstrand and Åhléns. A long partnership with BodaNova has resulted in a large number of glass ranges utilizing a number of decoration techniques. Barbro also undertakes design projects together with Pia Amsell through their joint design studio Amsell Wesslander.
Liv Andersson
Liv Andersson finished her Master of Industrial Design at Lund School of Design in 2008. She received second prize in the “Green Furniture Award” in 2009. She also got a scholarship from The Region of Scania (Region Skånes designstipendium) for her graduation project on biodegradable caskets, “Dust to dust”.
She likes to dig into, for her, unexplored areas. But you can notice a “green thread” through her work as she wants to aim at, the unfortunately somewhat drained but evident term; environmentally sustainable products or services. Liv aims at using as few materials and production methods as possible. She wants to bring research and design closer together.

Amy Hunting

Amy Hunting is a Norwegian furniture designer and illustrator currently based in London. After studying furniture design at Denmark’s Design School in Copenhagen she started working for Established & Sons  in the production and product development department. Early 2009 she began working full time on her own furniture and freelance illustrations from her studio in East London. She co-curated and organized 'Norwegian Prototypes', a group exhibition of New Norwegian Design during London Design Festival 09.
Markus Johansson

Markus was born In Gothenburg and has a background as a cabinetmaker. He is currently studying master design at HDK (University of Crafts & Design) in Gothenburg and examinant’s 2011th. He likes to work with product and furniture design in which some of his products have resulted in different prices and honorable mentions. “Square” (coffee table) is he´s first product for Green Furniture Sweden.
Charlotte Ackemar

Charlotte Ackemar took her bachelor degree in Design at HDK (University of Crafts & Design) in Gothenburg spring 2009 with focus on interior- and furniture design. She won the furniture brand Mitabs competition “Stand on your own” where the winner designs Mitabs booth on Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010. She has also, among other things, worked with Green House 2009 at Stockholm Furniture Fair under her internship at TAF Arkitektkontor in Stockholm.


Peter Schumacher
Peter Schumacher studied Architecture at the University of Adelaide and Industrial Design at the University of South Australia. After graduation he worked for a number of manufacturing companies and design consultancies in Sydney and Adelaide. In 1999 he took up a lecturing position in the Design school at the University of South Australia where he is currently the program director for the Industrial Design degree. Between teaching and studying for his PhD on pictorial assembly instructions he designs and builds furniture exploring materials, processes and construction techniques. In 2002 he received a Bronze leaf in the International Furniture Design Competition in Asahikawa, Japan for ‘Flight screen’ and was shortlisted in the 2005 competition. His furniture work has been exhibited in Adelaide, Milan and Matra Herford, Germany.




















Rimgaile Samsonite

Rimgaile is specializing in interior, furniture and product design. She has graduated from Ingvar Kamprad
Design Center at Lund University, Industrial design program. Rimgaile has also undergone interior and
furniture design education at Vilnius Art Academy. In 2008, she was awarded the ‘Finalist award’ in PIEp
Engineering Creativity Challenge in Stockholm. In 2009, she exhibited at ‘If concept awards 2009’
exhibition in Hannover. Now she lives and works in Malmö at her own interior and furniture design
company Manö studio.

Maria Westerberg

Maria graduated 2008 from Konstfacks Interior Architecture and Furniture design.
Since then she has made a Recycle interior collection for Indiska, made conceptual installations in fridges for a landscape architect office in Berlin and will now exibit in Greenhouse 2011 at Stockholm Furniture Fair with her expressive and playful design. Significant of her works is organic shapes, using materials in a new context and often very colourful. Her most famous work until now is a chair called "T-shirt chair", that also is the 1st prize of Green Furniture Award 2011 and by that also is produced by Green Furniture Sweden.