H1 Exilis is an extremely versatile and brilliantly designed shelving system developed by We Do and Nonuform. Elementa is the sole distributor of Exilis in Norway.
The system is based on an extruded aluminium profile which, despite it’s extremely slim appearance can carry a lot of weight. It is all produced in Sweden. The shelves can be mounted directly on the wall with a hidden bracket, or on rails on the wall or freestanding on a base.
Read MoreElementa is participating in the freshly overhauled Oslo Design Fair through the 100% Norway Exhibition, which was originally shown in London in September, 2015.
Along with some of the very finest contemporary Norwegian design, Elementa is showing products and prototypes designed by StokkeAustad and Hallgeir Homstvedt, including the dB Silent Cabinets, the UN Divided Table, the UT Garden Table and KI light.
Read MoreTara Shi is a designer making social apps and gadgets with Disk Cactus, an art and tech studio based in Oakland, California.
Tara recently met with the Elementa team while visiting Oslo on a project to document her practice of walking, inspired by Norway’s Slow TV.
How do we produce our best work? How do we remember what is really important in a mad regime of distractions? How can we find the inner spaciousness to align our work with our deeper sense of priorities?
At Elementa our work is to think deeply about what work is - and to build concrete suggestions on how it can be done better. The dB storage series is the result of long hours of discussions with designers Jonas & Øystein at StokkeAustad - on the relationship between high quality work and our physical surroundings.
Read MoreHunting & Narud is a Norwegian born design practice exiled in London. Approaching traditional materials and processes with a fresh take, they have produced some of the most breathtakingly beautiful furniture to come out of Norway the last years.
We have chatted with Amy on the Dreams and Work of Hunting & Narud - and the Future of Work.
A lot due to the great work of our colleges at the company fjordfiesta, Hans Brattrud's beautiful Scandia chairs are celebrated as perhaps the most important Norwegian design from mid-century modernism.
The UN trestle table started out as an impulse to make a universal trestle base that would accommodate mostly every type of table top regardless of shape or size.
Designers StokkeAustad pondered deeply upon the request and came up with a solution which is not only very simple and elegant: It turns out that the it also carries a lot of extra possibilities, extending into shared workspaces, shelving and beyond.
Read MoreRun by Theo Tveterås and Lars Marcus Vedeler, Skrekkøgle is a different voice in the Norwegian design scene, exploring technology and tactility, often bordering on art. The Skrekkøgle website, which features selected projects and an inspiring web shop, is a real treasure house of quirky design ideas, eloquently formulated and always with an element of surprise.
The Elementa Blog have talked to Theo about the future of work, their own work - and the role of design in addressing real problems, be they small, big or medium sized.
Read MoreWas it made? Can it be made? Should it be made? New York Museum of Modern Art's competition for low cost furniture in 1948 resulted in some of today's most celebrated furniture classics - including Charles & Ray Eames famous fibreglass chaise longue. Other participants in the competition included famous designers like Hans Wegner, Ilmari Tapiovaara and Marcel Breuer.
Read MoreWhat is the science behind giving while at work and in life? Is generosity as good a trait as we like to believe, or do we easily give ourselves away? How can we all become architects and shape our workspace according to our skills, interests and values?
The organizational psychologist Adam Grant has studied how generosity fits into the workspace, and his results challenges the conventional notion that taking is more"effective" than giving.
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Read MoreWrite hElementa UT is an initiative that aims to explore imaginative ways of working and living with plants through design. We humans are incredibly adaptable to environments that are less-than-optimal for our wellbeing. Desktop computing as we know it is a phenomenon that is both at the core of conceived value production in our society - and deeply problematic for the health of our human organism. While the obvious solution is to actually get away and into the jungle (or the mountain or the sea) - the UT project is about transforming the workspace through the incorporation of plants and life.ere...
Read MoreAt Elementa we are hugely inspired by all kinds of true explorers of the hidden recesses of the mind. The first big retrospective exhibition of the Swedish mystic artist Hilma af Klint’s work, originally organized by Moderna Museet is now on display at Henie Onstad art centre - and is allegedly the last chance to see this show for a long time.
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