Bruno Mathsson Prize 2017 – TAF Studio
Meet the architects and designers Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom who this year were awarded the prestigious Bruno Mathsson Prize. Together the duo runs the architecture studio TAF in Stockholm.
The Bruno Mathsson Prize is one of the major design awards in the Nordic region. On December 9, an exhibition opens at Form/Design Center presenting TAF’s work from its founding in 2002 to today. It encompasses architectural projects as well as furniture, lighting and everyday objects for internationally operating manufacturers.
In recent days, TAF is being rewarded with Residence Stora Formpris 2017 “Furniture of the Year” for Gärsnäs sofa Bleck. Earlier this year they received Sköna Hem’s prize “Furniture of the Year”, were named “Designer of the Year” by Form Magazine and awarded a prize in ELLE Deco International Design Awards.
Prize Motivation “Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom – TAF have purposefully refined their design language to a sophisticated simplicity, which with the ingredients of humor and portions of boldness evokes touching appeal. A container on the street or a board on trestles are everyday sources of inspiration that challenged them to move forward and create an interesting sustainable renewal of archetypal products”. – The Board of Karin and Bruno Mathsson’s Foundation
About TAF TAF consists of Gabriella Gustafson (b. 1974) and Mattias Ståhlbom (b. 1971). Gustafson is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen and MFS studies in Brazil. Ståhlbom is educated at Konstfack. He has also studied ethnology and art history at Stockholm University and Umeå University. TAF has exhibited at a.o. MoMA in New York and is represented in the permanent collection at a.o. Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen.
www.tafstudio.se
The exhibition runs 9/12 2017 – 21/1 2018.
The exhibition is produced by Vandalorum in collaboration with the Karin and Bruno Mathsson Foundation.
Form/Design Center is a dynamic and well-visited meeting place for form, design and architecture. Here you find much of the best and latest in Swedish design. Annually, about twenty exhibitions are shown about industrial design, crafts, furniture and textile design, architecture and urban development, fashion, graphic design and illustration. Form/Design Center also arranges lectures and debates and is an arena for meetings and exchanges between designers, the public, research and business.
Photo: Nicho Södling