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At Focus 2026, Tollgard presents new work from Tollgård & Castellani - the design duo of Staffan Tollgård and Filippo Castellani - for its Italian house, Riva1920, at the heart of a stand shared with De Castelli, Jeroen De Ruddere and Ceccotti Collezioni.
Solidity and softness runs through every piece: functional sculpture, made in the studio's own hand, where architectural forms have their edges quieted and their presence softened.
Wood - Older Than Architecture
Join us at theTollgard Showroom for Wood, Older Than Architecture - a conversation exploring the enduring language of wood indesign, with product designers Jeroen De Ruddere, Staffan Tollgård and FilippoCastellani, hosted by Pip Rich, Executive Editor of Livingetc.
Date: Wednesday 16th September, 4.30pm
Location: Tollgard Showroom, Unit 115, Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, London SW10 0XE
Please email rsvp@tollgard.com to confirm attendance.
Suiseki, for Riva1920
Suiseki (水石) translates as "water stone" - the Japanese art of appreciating a naturally formed stone for the landscape it evokes, held in miniature and contemplated for tranquility and longevity. Offered as a low table, a console and a dining table, the Suiseki collection moves Riva1920's language toward something more sculptural and fluid. Sharp edges are eased into organic shape. Monolithic, soft, harmonious.
Heiko, for Riva1920
Heikō (平衡) means balance and equilibrium. The Heiko dining chair is built around exactly that: structure and aesthetics in quiet dialogue. Sculptural and iconic, it is also grounded and refined, holding visual lightness alongside a chair that is genuinely comfortable to sit in.
De Castelli
De Castelli works metal until a hard column eases into rhythm and light, in Francesco Forcellini's Dorica sideboard and Adele Martelli's Light&Shade wall light.
Jeroen De Ruddere
Belgian designer Jeroen de Ruddere rests a softly diffused light on solid, turned wood, with his FL4 and FL5 floor lamps. The FL5 is a fitting close to the story. Its silhouette is drawn from a tree trunk: a solid, tapering wooden base in oak, mahogany or American walnut, carrying a softly diffusing fabric shade. Handmade and dimmable, it is architectural in presence and gentle in the light it gives - solidity and softness, in a single object.
Ceccotti Collezioni
Alongside the shared stand, Tollgard brings forward five new pieces from Ceccotti Collezioni, the Italian house at its Centre Dome showroom. The standout is the Captain Hook wall clock by Guglielmo Ulrich - a piece of design archaeology recreated from a single archival photograph of his 1940s original. A perpendicular beam in solid American walnut holds a brass dial, its numerals enamelled by hand, hands and fixings in burnished brass. Part of Ceccotti's Masters Tribute, it honours the overlooked design objects of the last century - the solid, softened, in its most literal form.
One idea, several houses
From Italy to the Netherlands and Belgium, Focus 2026 makes the case for a single thread running through very different materials and makers. It is the same instinct Tollgard brings to every project: finding the röda tråden, the creative DNA, at the point where environment, architecture and identity meet.
We look forward to welcoming you to the showroom soon.
If you’d like to know more about Focus, please get in touch with our showroom team, they would be delighted to help you.
Email: sales@tollgard.com | Phone: +44 (0)20 8067 2123
Last week Copenhagen opened its workshops, courtyards, showrooms, and historic townhouses for 3 Days of Design, transforming the city into a living exhibition of contemporary design. Over three days, we wandered between districts, stepping into spaces both familiar and unexpected, discovering the work of established names alongside emerging voices.
What stayed with us were not the loudest statements, but the quieter pieces - designs that revealed their value through thoughtful craftsmanship, material honesty, and longevity. A chair built to serve for decades rather than seasons. A cabinet designed to age gracefully alongside its owner. Lighting that treated illumination not as an afterthought, but as a material in its own right.
Here is our round-up of the brands and pieces that left a lasting impression.
Vipp
One of the standout installations from the fair was at the Vipp Garage, where the Barcelona-based studio Mesura transformed the space into an ephemeral guest house. A steel framework wrapped entirely in a vibrant plaid textile extended from walls and furniture into the courtyard, creating an immersive environment that announced itself before visitors even stepped inside.
At its centre sat a conversation pit formed from modular Loft sofa sections, reinforcing the studio's exploration of home as a shared experience. The installation was accompanied by a limited-edition Vipp x Mesura Swivel chair, developed specifically for the project and carrying the distinctive material language of the installation beyond the three-day event.
Alongside the installation, Vipp showed the Swivel chair in its two newest forms, models **454** and **455**. Both bring a higher backrest and a more spacious seat over the original, developed for long days at a desk or in a meeting - the 454 sits 61.5cm wide, with a 50cm seat depth, on a polished aluminium base available with castors or gliders, upholstered in aniline leather (camel, black and a bosco green among the finishes) or fabric, with elastic webbing beneath for give.
The 455 reads as the more considered variant of the same family. Both are intended to pair with Vipp's Studio Desk.
Vipp also previewed a new, larger desk and two new striking dining tables.
Finn Juhl
The home of Finn Juhl is its own argument for why thoughtful design matters. Walking through the rooms, you are reminded that Juhl never viewed furniture as simply functional objects. Instead, he saw them as part of a larger conversation about how we live, move, gather, and find comfort in our surroundings. Every room feels carefully considered yet deeply personal, revealing a designer who understood that the best interiors are not staged compositions but lived environments.
At the Finn Juhl showroom, a new silver cabinet was introduced - a piece very much in the Heirloom register, made to be kept and handed on.
Formakivet
At their Nordhavn showroom, FORMARKIVET presented New Dualism - an exhibition that felt like a precise statement of intent. The Copenhagen design house has always worked in productive tension: industrial materials held to a refined standard, classic forms recast in contemporary language. That contradiction was most legible in the Cubio collection, which grew again this year with the addition of a bench. Cast aluminium, offered in raw or semi-gloss light beige, each bench develops its own patina over time - the brand treats the micro-scratches and surface variations as part of the material's character rather than something to be corrected.
Alongside Cubio, the Ion upholstered seating was shown in full. Dining chairs and armchairs in fabric families ranging from cotton chenille to wool bouclé, and the Marmacén home scent collection, a fragrance range drawing on the woody warmth of oud and benzoin with top notes of frankincense and pine, lent the space an atmosphere that felt imoressive and considered.
PP Møbler
During 3daysofdesign, PP Møbler invited us inside the Flagship Store to mark two significant milestones. The Circle Chair celebrates 40 years, presented with a dedicated focus on its demanding construction and refined details.
At the same time, the Papa Bear Chair marks its 75-year anniversary, shown in special variations and with new additions to the collection. Together, they framed an exhibition centred on material understanding, precision and the ongoing work in the workshop.
Malte Gormeson
At the Cabinetmakers Gallery in The Conary on Dronningens Tværgade, Malte Gormsen presented new work from the Herlev workshop, combining traditional cabinetmaking with contemporary production techniques. The result was a collection defined by precision, material quality, and understated craftsmanship.
Three pieces stood out. The Abar stool from the Skt. Annæ series by Space Copenhagen brought a sculptural simplicity that highlighted the beauty of the materials. The Trapeza chair by Christian+Jade offered a clean, architectural presence with carefully considered proportions. A taller version of the MG406 stool by Norm Architects completed the trio, extending the versatility of the original design while retaining its refined character.
Anour
At its showroom on Bredgade, ANOUR used this year's festival to deepen a single idea: light treated as a material rather than a fitting. The PARS series was the anchor - a modular system in natural onyx, each piece carrying its own veins and tones, paired with refined brass so the stone seems to hold the light as much as pass it on.
A-N-D Lighting
One of the most considered presentations this year came from Vancouver-based studio A-N-D, which used 3 Days of Design to open its permanent European home - a former commercial printing press in Copenhagen's Latin Quarter.
The three-floor space, titled North Quarters, felt more like an inhabited interior than a trade show stand: on the ground floor, pendants from the Contour and Pebble collections hung in a necklace-like formation above a 16-foot dining table by Canadian designer Christian Woo; in the basement, the original industrial surfaces were left largely intact, letting floor lamps and sconces speak quietly against raw walls; upstairs, rows of Column floor lamps anchored a contemplative room with an audio installation built around sound waves.
Founded by designers Lukas Peet and Caine Heintzman, A-N-D has always approached lighting as a long-term proposition - every LED across their range is replaceable, and the studio designs for a lifespan of 20 to 30 years. It's the brand we return to when a project calls for something that earns its place in a room rather than announces it.
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