Konstnär: Fredrik ÖstergrenMedia: ÖvrigtDatum: 2023

Brutwork at Fenix.

Brutwork är möbler som utgår från en annorlunda tanke. Tänk om man kunde översätta hur man arbetar med typsnitt när man presenterar en text till möbler i ett rum, att möblerna kan anpassas i olika grader?
På det sättet har Fredrik Östergren skapat en linje av möbler som går från tunnare och gracila möbler, till tjockare och mer bylsiga pjäser. Fredrik har kunnat skapa dessa ting utan att någonsin tulla på skönheten i objektet, snarare har han genom denna process kunnat skapa monumentala möbler. Låter det spännande? Kom och titta och köp möblerna på Fenix under Stockholm Design Week.

Om Brutworks.

What would happen if interior designers were offered the possibilty to choose weight in similarity to how a graphic designer do when choosing fonts to their composition? In that process the designer chooses a certain basic shape, a typeface, which then can be shaped into light, medium or bold, whichever fits the composition best. This is something that Fredrik Östergren, founder of Brutwork, offers interior designers and their spatial compositions.

With inspiration from japanese furniture design, traditional Nordic crafts, Swedish solid core pine, and not to forget – brutalism, Fredrik creates a combination of multidimensional Swedish core pine brutalism.

Brutwork AB is a furniture design company operating on Södermalm in Stockholm. The founder Fredrik Östergren has during the 90s, 00s and 10s worked as a graphic designer, Art Director and Creative Director at several communication companies. All furniture is made to order and is signed and numbered in a limited edition.

Simplification is refinement.

During Stockholm Design Week 5-9 September – Brutwork will be changing a few things at Riche Fenix.