- Lounge furniture series
- Client / Nola
- Slideshow / Oiled oak and powder coated steel
Alta is a steel and wood lounge furniture series designed for both outdoor and indoor settings. The series embodies simplicity, inclusiveness, and versatility. With its soft, pillow-like wooden details, Alta exudes an inviting ambiance. Alta offers flexibility and comfort for both solitary relaxation and cozy togetherness with someone special.
The inspiration is drawn from steel furniture from the early 1900s, and the modular concept allows the same furniture piece to adapt from a stool to a bench, to a lounge chair, and even a shielded sofa.
What sets Alta apart, as the name suggests, is the ability to elevate (altitude) the furniture by adding perforated screens to the back or sides. This can create a more private atmosphere, allowing users to enjoy the sensation of sitting in the warm spring sun without needing a building to lean against.
Alta is a furniture series that combines style and functionality in an elegant way. It strives to be simple, robust and inclusive while being adaptable to different needs and situations.
- Tamburin hook strip
- Client / Essem Design
- Slideshow / Natural oak and black or white stained ash wood. Black (textured) and white steel hooks.
Inspiration for the Tamburin hook rack was found in the animal kingdom. Dolphins became the inspiration for the hook strip. When the hooks of the Tamburin rack are recessed they protrude above the wooden ledge, similar to the dorsal fin of a playful dolphin cutting through the surface of the water.
The precise manufacturing technique and simple mechanical movement, on the other hand, are reminiscent of pinball machines. Like slot machines, you can hardly keep your hands off it – you feel the urge to pull the lever even if you don't have anything to hang up at the moment.
- Robust luminaire with a modern design language
- Client / ateljé Lyktan
- Slideshow / Lyster ceiling and wall luminaire
The idea for Lyster took shape after seeing how artisanal manufacturing of planting vessels at a traditional aluminum foundry takes place. I extended the idea of lighting with the desire to enhance the experience of the outdoor environment around residential areas, through luminaires equipped with similar qualities.
Lyster's luminaire housing is made of aluminum by sand casting and has a slightly coarser surface, connected back to the foundry's planting vessels. Lyster comes as two solitaires, wall and ceiling, elegant and simple in its expression.
Lyster's pleasant shape and intimate format allow you to get close to the luminaire and rather consider it as an interior detail than as functional lighting for durable environments.
Lyster is my first design for ateljé Lyktan, a lighting manufacturer with an 85-year long history and an archive of lights that have defined Swedish design over the last century.
- A most relaxed addition to the Nifo park furniture range
- Client / Lappset, Lappset Sweden
- Slideshow / Illustration, the final product in linax treated wood and early mock-up
Sit back and unfold yourself into a human solar collector in Nifo Easy sofa and easy chair. Nifo Easy is an addition to Lappset's very popular and accessibility adapted park furniture range Nifo, that Andreas Klippinge designed a couple of years ago. Nifo Easy is a more laid back version, with a high backrest and somewhere to rest your feet – very comfortable!
So, even though you may not want to get up for a while, the Easy-products are based on the same inclusive design as the Nifo range. That means easy to get in and out of and ergonomically well thought out, making sure that everyone can get a chance to sit down and relax while enjoying a sunny day outside.
Take it easy!
- A hallway furniture series
- Client / Essem Design
- Slideshow / Photos of Tamburin hat and shoe rack
The product family Tamburin emerged from my ambition of drawing something "super-functional". The choice fell on hallway furniture, important for Swedish homes and completely indispensable as Scandinavian climate with large seasonal fluctuations, puts our homes to the test. Especially the hallway is exposed to muddy boots in the autumn, melting snow in the winter and grassy feet in the summer.
For Essem Design Andreas Klippinge has designed a series called Tamburin consisting of a hat rack and a shoe rack. The products being as robust as possible but still keeping a minimalistic look. It consists of powder coated steel frames joined together by oak wood staffs.
- A display system for office environments and public spaces
- Slideshow / Renderings and photos
If you want something to be seen, it must first be noticed. Which is exactly what the product series Notiz is about; clear, efficient and functional exposure that captures the eye's interest.
Notiz is a display system that stores and exposes – magazines, books, newspapers and brochures of various sizes and thicknesses – in a visually attractive way. V-shaped compartments, which resemble the shape of an envelope, offer efficient storage that also visualizes its content. Material strapped behind elastic cords, that runs in a zigzag pattern, gets the clearest possible exposure. Both the V-shape and the diagonal direction of the cord ensure that all types of printed matter do not fold or fall forward.
In addition to storage, Notiz also features functions such as magnetic glass writing boards, pinboards, mirrors and an office post/message shelf.
The system is wall mounted or free-standing and available in a variety of combinations and sizes, that function both as single units or combined into systems with multiple modules.
Discover new compositions by turning and twisting, and make Notiz match different interior design projects by your own use of colors and selection of materials.
Get notized!
- Set of low tables
- Client / Den Nya Kartan, Vandalorum
- Slideshow / Close-up of table tops, overview of tables overlapping, topographic maps
Ö-land draws inspiration from the archipelago of the province of Småland's coast. I grew up there and just over the Kalmar strait you will find the unique limestone slopes and cliffs on the island of Öland's northwestern side. For what are tables if not like islands something solid to anchor at? Not least when we cruise through everyday life – from island to island following demands and needs.
In exclusive laminated wood boards – made of walnut, oak and ash – a topographic depth is created by
advanced CNC-millings. The color difference between the wood species enhances the landscape formation and the chromed table stand is reminiscent of a mirror-like water surface.
The set of low tables was created for of the exhibition Den Nya Kartan/The New Map at the art and design museum Vandalorum, in close collaboration with the table-top manufacturer Ljungsåsa AB.
- Park and street furniture
- Client / Lappset, Lappset Sweden
- Slideshow / Renderings of Kompis in Lappset Living Colours
Kompis is the Swedish word for friend – simple to understand and trust. By its gentle design, durablity and also being easy on the wallet, Kompis wants to be everyone's friend!
Friendly, simple and easy to like – painted in Lappset Sport colours! The Living Colours palette combines natural tones with relaxed and vibrant colours.
The design is the structure / the structure is the design – as clear, uncluttered and user friendly as possible. The characteristic curve of the steel tube provides a soft enveloping feeling, that derives its origin from the wing chair. The curvy tube serves as an accessibility adapted armrest/support when sitting down and getting up.
- Modular planters
- Client / Lappset, Lappset Sweden
- Slideshow / Product, sketches, scale model, and renderings
Lots of floral joy fits in Arkad, or even a cactus or a tree!
The planter is perceived as soft by its arched sides and leaves the ground through an arch shape, giving the vessels a light impression. Arkad ships in flat packages and is assembled by a simple installation, the planters are also stackable and can be ordered in almost any colour you'd like!
Arkad planters are made of laser cut steel sheets, that through a modular design can vary its size and shape according to number of sides (3-triangle, 4-square, 5-pentagon) or by adding straight sections.
Arkad can be lifted using lifting straps that attach in shackles, which are hidden by the soil on the insides of the planters. The opening at the bottom makes the planter easy to move with a pallet truck or forklift.
- A wide park and street furniture series
- Client / Lappset, Lappset Sweden
- Slideshow / Models, mock-up, drawing, render and the final product
Choice, adaptability and an expandable product family formed the basis of the Nifo furniture series. Nifo's simple arch design has many qualities such as being production efficient, soft and inviting, and make it easier for water to drain.
The armrests are very important for the series, purely functional but also for the expression. Besides the most obvious feature, as something nice to rest your arm on, the armrests are ergonomically designed. Offering an easy to grip end that is positioned high up and far forward, to be used as a brace when getting up and giving support all the way up to standing.
The knob, at the end of the armrest, prevents you from accidentally slipping your hand. It is also designed to hang things on – backpack, shopping bag, purse, etc – instead of putting things on the seat, which then prevent other people from settling down.
Nifo's arch shape is the result of a sitting comfort primarily considering elderly people and children, yet suiting us all. The arches form a more upright sitting curve, that makes it easy to get up and down, provides support all the way down to the lumbar region and allows itself to be followed by the short backs and legs of children.
- Venues around the lake Rävsjön in Rävemåla, Småland
- Client / Linnaeus University
- More about the research project
AKD has been part of a rural development project – commissioned by an entrepreneurial research project at the Linnaeus University. AKD was involved in the investigation of the local conditions in the district of Älmeboda, in Småland, by creating venues around the lake Rävsjön.
With my design I want to unite the area around the lake and create platforms that bring people together. The concepts includes sauna, walking/jogging trail, picnic area and bathing jetty – which came about through discussions with the local residents and their own wishes of developing the area and their community.
The monochromatic use of the red color is what binds the different venues together, get the area to stand out and attract visitors, while the red shade also is well-known and typical for cottages and barns in the province of Småland.
The project also features products from my park and street furniture series NIFO for LAPPSET.
- A durable floor in brushed and lacquered oak tiles and ash strips
- Client / Kährs
- Awarded second prize in wood floor competition Kährs Design Studio
My idea was not to create a competitor to other wood flooring. Rather to create a floor that primarily may complement it and focus on the rooms and areas where customers are more inclined to exclude wood in favor of a different flooring material.
This gives a product which primary purpose is to be installed in the kitchen, hallway, entrance, etc – environments that place higher demands on the flooring durability. The brushed oak and ash with lacquer surface is both perceived as and is more resistant to wear while it includes a warm, natural and handcrafted feeling. The floor is also forgivable against nicks and marks. If it happens, the feeling is that it gets scratched in a square – which is acceptable – and not a scratch in the floor, as
a whole. The customer recognizes the floor's both patterns and makes a positive association with other hard and durable floor and wall surfaces.
The very clear expression of the square makes it possible to expand the floor into a whole series of products in different variations of color range and wood species.
Due to the size of the square, it is possible to extract 1-strip board material more efficiently, by taking out squares in parts of the wood that may otherwise go to waste in the 1-strip board production.
Board dimensions; thickness 15 mm, width 180 mm and length 1800 mm
- Handmade cabinet for belongings with a golden value
- Solid ash; black stained and waxed on the outside while natural and light inside
- Made during a course at the well-known craft and design school of Capellagården
The proportions of the cabinet are inspired by the world's largest gold bar of 250 kg. With the major difference that the cabinet is not that valuable itself, it is what you put
inside that is golden – in your uttermost personal opinion! The drawer is hidden to keep intruders in wonder, unabled to access the content of the mystic cabinet.
- The user defines the purpose of each furniture
- Tubular and laser cut steel
- Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011 / More pictures under PRESS
Curtains fall, drawers keep, a chair is a chair – this is whatever you want it to be!
The Whatever series is the result of a self-generated workshop by Andreas Klippinge. The idea was to create user-defined furnitures only with the shape of circles. So
the form was set by circles and the user decides the furnitures purpose like dress hanger, cocktail table, flower pot-rack, hat stand, plant table, champagne holder, bookshelf, flower stand, bedside table, torch stand, coffee table... hold baskets or whatever!
- An office wall for Hyllteknik / University BFA diploma work
- Client / Hyllteknik
- More about the recyclable acoustic material
Diploma work in design executed at the rail and bracket manufacturer Hyllteknik in Alvesta, Småland. Where I, as the first designer ever at the company, worked close to the management in the work of designing a new screen wall. In the design process I focused on, and succeeded with, rationalizing the products manufacturing process and costs.
The design also has a thorough environmental awareness. My research for environment-friendly material resulted with the office wall's steel frame holding a soundabsorber made of 100% polyester fiber and has
the same product life cycle as recyclable PET-bottles. This material also has the highest class of sound absorption (Class A).
Thanks to my design of the steel profile, the screen wall can connect stepless brackets and shelves, and also adjust the screen in height from the ground through it's legs or feet.
My diploma work was honoured with scholarship from Sparbankstiftelsen Kronan.
- Lamp made of recycled wine and beer bottles / University design project
- Course: Artistic and Scientific Interpretation / Subject: Place and Space
- Picked up by Designboom at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Flashklight (Swenglish wordplay) is a decor lighting made of recycled wine and beer bottles. The space of the bottles often holds a given task, to contain wine for example. When the task is served the bottles becomes useless for us and we throw them away, when they actually possesses beautiful forms that can be used further.
- Candle holders
- Cast glass
- Two day workshop
The candle holders is a result of a two day glass casting workshop. Glass beads were placed in my moulds and melted down in a glass oven. The result looks like icicles and can be used as garden lighting, simply by pressing down the thin edge in the soil.