Meet the designer Tom Dixon at the Normann Copenhagen Store, 12th of August 19-22. You’ll need to pick up a ticket beforehand in the shop (it’s free). DJ Thomas Madvig will be playing and Somersby will make sure there’s something sweet, alcoholic and sticky in your glass while you mingle away. Tjeck out more at AOK.

ABC Chairs by Roeland Otten

Lo-fi sofa by Christiane Hoegner
(via Designtaxi)

WANT TO DESIGN WITH US?

Johannes Torpe Studios is currently looking for two interns for the fall semester. You will be a part of our young and dynamic design team and take part in all aspects of the design process.

We expect you to be ambitious, self-propelled and easy to work with. You have a strong commitment to the world of design that provides you with initiative, ideas and the willingness to help out where needed.

As our product designer/architectural design intern you must:

- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- be able to work easily with the Adobe package.
- be a Surface- and Solid modelling-wizz
- speak and write English fluently

As our graphic design intern you must:

- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- have Adobe as your BFF
- have some Flash/html experience.
- speak and write English fluently

Duration of Internship:
From 1. September 2010 to 1. January 2011
Application: Send CV, portfolio and application
in .pdf format no larger than 5Mb to:

job@johannestorpe.com
Note: “Don’t call us – we’ll call you”.
Hard copies will not be returned.

Space Enablers featured on Lifeweek’s Good’s Good pages.

THE SPACE ENABLERS
The Space Enablers is a product family that includes Slide, Drift and Soft Shelter developed by Johannes Torpe for Haworth. The Space Enablers take the traditional office environment into the new Millennium by facilitating new and more flexible ways of working – upgrading and mobilizing the office environment.

SLIDE AND DRIFT
Slide and Drift; are both flexible laptop tables that encourage spontaneous and effective business meetings standing up or sitting down, anywhere, anytime.

SOFT SHELTER
Soft Shelter is enabling a more lounge-like and casual encounter. It’s designed to be an easily configurable solution that can be moved around, shaped and reshaped – facilitating various degrees of privacy and comfort. Its flexibility and its acoustic properties allow you to customize the appropriate atmosphere for any business encounter.

“IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG”
The Space Enablers ignite energy, creativity and connectivity. In the often so grey and gloomy office environment the Space Enablers will make space flexible and ad bubbly colorful hotspots that entail the very philosophy of Johannes: “If it feels like work, you’re doing it wrong”.

Mormor won the Danish Design Prize in 2007. But Johannes Torpe doesn’t believe in design prizes. He believe it takes up to much time and money to participate – and that’s not what design is all about… However when the producer HAY CPH told us that we where nominated – and when we won – we were of course both proud and happy……

Check out more at www.Hay.dk

Read the funny article of what this sofa can be used for (in Danish) here.

Check out the article at Boligmagasinet.dk where Johannes Torpe and Rune RK talks about Mormor as well (in Danish)

Its also cool to check out the article about Mormor here at Danish Edge, where its detailed why it won the Danish Design Prize in 2007

However all together the sofa weighs app. 20 KG and can be moved and costumized in any way you desire.

The sofa is produced by Italian manufacturer SPHaus – and sold in a variety of stores and design galleries around Europe and Middle East.

Like with many of the products and furniture evolving from the Torpe universe, Coupé has a build in story that reaches beyond the Supergeil universe…

However as we are in dialogue with a large European producer, we hope that it will be brought to live in 2009….