Draft:Alexander Lervik

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Alexander Lervik (born 1972) is a Swedish designer working across furniture, lighting, product design and experimental design. His work ranges from industrially produced furniture and lighting to limited-edition objects and conceptual projects involving light, digital fabrication and new production methods.

Education and early career

Lervik studied furniture and product design at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm, graduating in 1998.

His graduation project, Ten Stools – Ten Decades, explored twentieth-century design history through ten stools representing successive decades. In a 2007 profile, the British design magazine Blueprint described the project as establishing Lervik internationally and examined how his subsequent work both drew on and departed from traditions of Scandinavian furniture design.

The same profile discussed Lervik's later work including Five Playful Chairs, the Icon chair and furniture developed with Swedish manufacturer Johanson, placing his practice in the context of changes in Swedish furniture production and Scandinavian design.

Design work

Light has been a recurring subject in Lervik's work. In 2005, a New York Times News Service article published by the Taipei Times discussed his use of light in products including Brighthandle, a door handle using coloured light to indicate whether a room is occupied, and the illuminated swing Lightswing.

Lervik has also worked with digital fabrication. In 2007 he created Mybrain, a lamp based on a three-dimensional scan of his own brain. A 2013 feature in Dagens Nyheter discussed the project in the context of the development of 3D printing and described Lervik's experiments with digitally produced objects and prototypes.

In the same article, Lervik discussed the possibility of distributing design digitally for local manufacturing, comparing the idea with digital distribution in the music industry.

In 2020, Forbes profiled Lervik's Terra Chair, developed as a digital design intended to be produced by local manufacturers rather than transported as a finished product. The article linked the project to his earlier experiments with 3D printing and digital production.

The Financial Times also covered the Terra Chair during Stockholm Design Week in 2020, highlighting its local-production model and the aim of reducing transportation.

Experimental and conceptual work

Lervik's practice has included experimental work outside conventional furniture production. F.A.Z. Magazin profiled him in a 2016 feature on contemporary Scandinavian design, discussing projects including HangSmart and his work on the Aritco HomeLift.

In 2020, Der Spiegel included Lervik in a feature on Swedish designers during Stockholm Design Week. The article discussed both his commercial furniture work and more conceptual projects, including the exhibition Imaginations x12, The Poetry of Light and Terra Chair.

Another project, Tactus, consisted of connected touch-sensitive lamps intended as a low-intensity means of communication between people living apart. In 2020, the Financial Times used the project as an example in a wider feature about how designers were responding to changing domestic life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article also discussed Lervik's work on furniture adapted for home working.

The South China Morning Post separately profiled the Tactus project and discussed its relationship to Lervik's earlier experiments with light as a means of communication.

Exhibitions and critical reception

In 2018, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm presented a retrospective exhibition surveying Lervik's first two decades as a designer.

The exhibition was reviewed by Dagens Nyheter, which examined Lervik's career and the relationship between functional, experimental and autobiographical elements in his work.

Svenska Dagbladet published a longer profile of Lervik in connection with the retrospective in April 2018.

The British design magazine OnOffice made Lervik the cover subject of its February 2018 Scandinavian issue. The magazine described the issue as containing a cover story on his career, work for Aritco, projects presented during Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair and the Kulturhuset retrospective.

Museum collections

Lervik is represented in the collection of Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. The museum's collection includes Red Chair (2005), inventory number NMK 90/2005, and the candlestick Vit skugga (designed 2004, executed 2005), inventory number NMK 147/2007.

His work is also represented in the collection of the National Museum of Norway in Oslo. Its design collection includes Red Chair, Brighthandle, Tree of fiberlights and a vase. Tree of fiberlights (2002) is catalogued by the museum as NMK.2007.0693.

The Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg holds several works by Lervik, including Mybrain (2007, RKM 73-2008), Sense Light Swing (2005, RKM 9-2013), a red steel chair from 2005 (RKM 36-2006), the Alfa battery door handle (RKM 21-2006), and the Studio chair (RKM 38-2008).

Möbeldesignmuseum's collection includes Lervik's Model 44 chair (2005), produced by Johanson Design.

Selected awards

The Aritco HomeLift, designed by Lervik Design for Aritco, received a Red Dot Design Award. Red Dot identifies Alexander Lervik as the designer.

Lervik's Hemvist collection received several design awards in 2023. GOOD DESIGN lists Hemvist among its awarded projects, while the International Design Awards listed the project among its 2023 product design winners. It was also recognised by Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting.

Selected works

• Ten Stools – Ten Decades (1998)
• Brighthandle
• Red Chair (2005)
• Sense Light Swing (2005)
• Mybrain (2007)
• Rib
• Terra Chair (2020)
• Tactus (2020)
• Hemvist (2023)
• FRAKTUR (2024)

External links

• Official website