Emma Olbers Design provides new furnishings to The Outdated Library in Stockholm

Woven hemp chairs and pine studying tables are among the many items that Emma Olbers Design has added in its renovation of the library in Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum.

Longlisted within the civic and cultural inside class of this yr’s Dezeen Awards, the Outdated Library has been overhauled by Emma Olbers Design to incorporate a bunch of furnishings constituted of sustainable supplies.

It is set inside Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum – erected by German architect Friedrich August Stüler in 1866 – and serves as an area to exhibit particular archive items.

“My transient was to make a room for relaxation and reflection,” defined Emma Olbers, founding father of the studio, “and environmental points are of excessive precedence for me.”

“I consider that sustainability and product life-cycles are key considerations and I attempt to include it into my work. I wish to design good merchandise – good in all points, together with being good for our planet.”

“As this venture is in a public place, I noticed it as an opportunity to get this message out,” she advised Dezeen.

Olbers first grasped an understanding of environmentally-friendly manufacturing strategies throughout her 2016 exhibition The place Does it Come From, The place Does it Go?

When placing collectively the present, she labored with the Swedish Environmental Analysis Unit to type an inventory of how a lot carbon dioxide totally different supplies emit.

“The supplies that had the least carbon dioxide have been the teams of coniferous and deciduous wooden, so we selected to deal with several types of wooden within the [Old Library’s] inside,” defined Olbers.

“And as a substitute of leather-based, now we have chosen hemp and seaweed, supplies which might be carbon dioxide-positive.”

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The room is now centred by a slim desk constituted of a single Swedish pine tree. Its counter has been stained forest-green, in a nod to the inexperienced chairs, leather-bound books and tabletop writing mats seen in conventional public libraries.

A few oak chairs with woven hemp seats and backrests supply guests a spot to sit down.

They perch on prime of a rug created in collaboration with homeware model Asplund. Crafted from Tencel – a fibre derived from the pulp of bushes – the rug options an illustrative sketch Olbers manufactured from the Outdated Library firstly of the redesign course of.

Emma Olbers Design additionally invited design company Entrance and regionally primarily based designer Monica Förster to supply items for the room.

Förster supplied a remix of her current Sana chair, whereas Entrance created a sequence of inexperienced lights with lengthy skinny stems that should be a reimagination of the everyday library desk lamp.

Whereas one curves up from the ground, a pair have been positioned on the ledges of the room’s big arched home windows.

“[The lights] stretch, wind and curve like they may develop a bit by the subsequent time you come to go to,” added Olbers.

The venture additionally noticed Olbers and her group restore the library’s current picket bookshelves with flax oil and touch-up the paintwork on the domed ceiling with egg tempera paint.

Stockholm’s Nationwide Museum reopened its doorways in November 2018 following a five-year restoration by structure agency Wingårdhs.

To mark the event, the establishment requested 5 Swedish designers to work alongside 21 native producers to supply furnishings that might beautify the museum’s new rooms.

Items included flooring lights comprised of undulating strips of plywood, dappled glass vases and rust-red tubular sofas.

Pictures is by Andy Liffner.