Neri&Hu named Guest of Honour 2019

Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, founding partners of the award-winning Chinese Neri&Hu, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice, have received the assignment to create an installation at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. This is the 16th time the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair has invited a well-respected international designer or architect to create an installation in Stockholmsmässan’s Entrance Hall.

“We are very happy and proud that Neri&Hu have accepted the assignment. Their work takes a visionary and poetic approach with intelligent methods that are well-suited to our globalized world. I also admire their expression, which has a very contemporary and urban feel,” says Cecilia Nyberg, Project Area Manager for Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week.

Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an interdisciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London, UK. Neri&Hu works internationally and is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over 30 different languages. The diversity of the team reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines. Neri&Hu believes strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues. A critical probing into the specificities of program, site, function, and history is essential to the creation of rigorous design work.

“We are very honored and were pleasantly surprised to be appointed. We are also happy that the brief was to NOT do the expected usual design fair "thing", so that we could think out of the box and be explorative with this attempt. We have held lectures and designed stands at the fair before, and have been impressed about the way the fair represents so well the Scandinavian style to the global design market. We are very excited and truly look forward to seeing something special again there next year!” say Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu.

Aside from Architecture and Interiors, Neri&Hu is actively working on a number of design products for various brands in Europe including Agape, Arflex, Artemide, BD Barcelona Design, BOLON, ClassiCon, Concrete LCDA, Driade, Fritz Hansen, Gandia Blasco, GAN, Kvadrat, LEMA, Meritalia, MOOOI, Nanimarquina, OFFECCT, Parachilna, Poltrona Frau, Porro, S.Pellegrino, Wallpaper* Handmade, Viabizzuno,and brands in Asia, including JIA and Stellar Works, among many others. Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have received a large number of awards. Among others they are the Overall Winner of The PLAN Award 2018, they are named EDIDA Designers of the Year 2017, Interior Designers of the Year of ICONIC Awards 2017 by German Design Council, Maison&Objet Asia Designers of The Year 2015, Wallpaper* Designers of The Year 2014. They were the winner of 2014 World Architectural Festival. In 2013. The practice was selected as the 2011 INSIDE Festival Overall Winner, won AR Awards for Emerging Architecture 2010 by Architectural Review (UK) and one of the Design Vanguards in 2009 by Architectural Record (US).

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair will be held on February 5-9, 2019 at Stockholmsmässan.

For more information, please visit www.stockholmfurniturefair.com or contact:
Cecilia Nyberg, Project Area Manager, +46 8 749 43 86, cecilia.nyberg@stockholmsmassan.se
Lotta Signeul, PR Manager, +46 8 749 43 36, lotta.signeul@stockholmsmassan.se

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the world’s leading meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design. Domestic and international visitors will find the most comprehensive selection of Scandinavian furniture, office furnishings, design, textiles, lighting and other interior furnishings for both homes and public spaces. Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair runs in parallel with Stockholm Design Week www.stockholmdesignweek.com