Andreas Klippinge Design has moved in to a new design studio in Växjö city – actually just around the corner from my home – with the noble name of the Italian Palace (Italienska Palatset)! The studio also comes with a wood/model workshop, so too bad it is on a temporary contract – yet long enough to get cosy and familiar with its beautiful surroundings!

Last week I visited the Elmia Park & Golf fair 2011 in Jönköping. The fair was small and inviting which made it easy to get in touch with different companies of my interest – to which I would like to say thanks for the good talk and see you again!

The summer has been great, both on and off vacation! Taking part in a two week summer course training to shape in wood, is a particular good reason why. The course took place in july and august at the well known school of Capellagården. Capellagården is founded by the interior designer Carl Malmsten and located on Öland. Our class, consisting of eleven pupils, were educated in different techniques focusing on hand tools but using a variety of machines as well. If you are up to working 12 h or more per day in a wood workshop, two weeks in a row, in the middle of summer? Then I highly recommend the course and Capellagården with its beautiful surroundnings!

In the near future I will update the porfolio with a cabinet that I designed and produced at Capellagården.

Andreas Klippinge Design is hooking up with one of Europe's leading producers of wood floors – Kährs – by being one of seven invited designers in the competition Kährs design studio. The deadline is at the end of October 2011, so till then best start to think with my feet!

Here you can find more information about the competition.

I can't say for a fact that there's such a day as Chair's day, nevertheless I was invited to participate in a workshop at the Kulturparken Småland in Växjö in order to celebrate just that day! The day was much fun! Teamed up with a good partner we made two new kind-of-chairs with material from old ones and mixed pieces from the local furniture industry. More pictures can be found here.

We also got a tour of the Åke Axelsson chair exhibition at Smålands Museum by the man himself. Åke Axelsson is a very well known Swedish chair designer and interior architecht who has been in the industry for half a century and still is. Not only did he give all the workshop participants a fine tour of his works, in a private conversation – as you can see in the last picture – he also revealed the secret of the chair!