Fogia

The reason Fogia was founded in 1981 was ambition, the drive that led our founders to pioneer the bonding of glass and plexiglass.
Our ambition is something we don’t often champion; we’re a Swedish brand after all, from the land where being openly ambitious is often frowned upon. But does design need more companies that toe the line as part of the collective unit?
The pieces in Fogia’s 2019 collection come from the ambition we have to produce the finest furniture in Scandinavia, Europe even. The designers working with us share an ambition to push our factory to its limits, and our factory in turn strives to give each designer a place where they can work without restrictions.
Part of our ambitious journey is opening our first showroom in New York this year and continuing to expand and export pieces to all corners of the globe. We also are injecting more focus into quality items for the contract sectors as well as home interiors. The way we work and where we do it is deeply connected and affects our output.

We’re also changing the way we develop our core collection and aren’t going to wait for the big furniture fairs. If a product is ready we’ll set it free, with new drops set for throughout 2019. This will also allow us to be more responsive to the changing needs of society—of living and working. So, expect to see not only new pieces this year, but iterations in existing ranges when opportunities to advance and progress a piece appear.
As a design company and producer, Fogia is a brand built on the relationships with our collaborators. Each of them bringing their own set of expectations, aspirations and ambitions to their work. In that respect, our Journal this year is about these individuals and how their work is influenced by their ambition.
What we discovered is that each of them is driven by a different range of ideals, there is a collective feeling that their ambitions keep them focused and driven to create pieces that make a contribution to life now and in the future. Our ambition is to give them the right kind of environment to let this happen, with the levels of quality that Fogia has become synonymous with, so that they’ll remain relevant for generations to come.
By the time we write our next Journal it’s likely that our destination will be more defined but be assured that our ambition this year is to create a collection that is far more diverse than any other design company in Sweden.

- Fogia was established in Stockholm in 1981.

The company initially manufactured tables that joined glass tops to Plexiglas frames, taking our name from the Swedish word “foga”, which means “join”. Through the early glory days of the 1990s and association with designers including Annika Reuterswärd, Fogia became a well-known company in Scandinavia.

- We work closely with some of Scandinavia’s most successful designers. We work with only a few hand-picked designers who understand our business and share our basic values. The majority of our products are handmade in Europe, which is fairly unique today. We use our own factory for manufacturing our products in order to have full control of the details, and to guarantee that we achieve the absolute highest quality and comfort. The solid and sound craftsmanship among our skilled and experienced carpenters and seamstresses is invaluable.

Example: Andreas Engesvik, NoteDesignStudio, Monica Förster, Nina Jobs, Stefan Borselius, Luca Niccheto, TAF Studio, Carina Seth Andersson, etc.