Aritco exhibits limited-edition DesignWall and hosts Third Age panel discussion at Design London
August 22, 2022
Award-winning Swedish lift company Aritco will present a new DesignWall called Geometric for its fully customisable Aritco HomeLift at Design London from 21 until 24 September. It will also host a talk at the fair at 2pm on Wednesday 21 September examining how innovative design can transform the home to support an ageing population.
Geometric is the result of a collaboration between Alexander Lervik, one of Sweden’s top designers, and young graphic artist Evelina Kroon and has been produced as a limited edition of just fifty units.
Lervik developed the original concept behind Aritco’s home lift in 2016, using light and the latest technology to make it adaptable to modern ways of living and the smart homes of the future. Aritco already offers a range of nine DesignWalls with a Scandinavian aesthetic, but the company commissioned Lervik to create a new design for its most exclusive clients. As he thrives on collaborations with other creatives from different disciplines, he sought out Kroon who had already established a distinctive aesthetic which draws on graphic patterns from wallpapers and prints from the 1960s and early 1970s.
Kroon began the design process with a wood fibre board layered with tape and different materials to create repeat patterns. She then sent a series of six sketches over to Lervik who developed the pattern further by adding in circular shapes and creating a digital file. They shared and modified the design several times before settling on a final version in a range of colourways. Aritco then selected one colourway and sent it to specialist production company Stockholm Print who manufactured the bespoke glass wall.
Aritco’s panel discussion at Design London, Redefining the Home for the Third Age, will examine how designers and architects can ensure that houses can cater for an ageing population. *By 2050, over two billion people in the world, or one in five of us, will be aged 60 or over, and ’third agers’ will have huge spending power.
David Schill, Marketing Director of Aritco Lift, will be joined by Colum Lowe, Director of the Design Age Institute, who specializes in this field. The third panellist, Kyle Scorgie, Project Head at PriestmanGoode, will offer a unique perspective from the transport sector which has been focused on improving mobility and comfort for an older demographic for decades. The talk will be moderated by design writer and curator Riya Patel.
A two-page intelligence report compiled by innovations platform Springwise will be available to accompany the talk and stimulate further discussion around this often-neglected topic.
EDITORS’ NOTES
*Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22%.
Source (October 2021) - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health
*It is estimated that by 2050 there will be over 2 billion people aged 60 and over, more than twice the number measured in 2000.
Source (August 2022) - https://www.ageinternational.org.uk/policy-research/statistics/global-ageing/
ABOUT ARITCO
Swedish lift company Aritco was founded in 1995 as a manufacturer of lifts for homes, schools, offices and retail stores that mix efficiency with aesthetics. The company’s products are recognized for their Scandinavian design, innovation, sustainability and reliability.
Aritco lifts have been installed in more than 40,000 buildings and private homes around the world. In 2016 the company launched the all-new Aritco HomeLift, taking residential accessibility to a new level.
The Aritco HomeLift was Winner of Red Dot Product Award 2017 and won a Gold Medal at the European Product Design Awards. It was also nominated for Best Domestic Design at Wallpaper* Design Awards, was a finalist for the Stora Design Priset (Great Design Prize) 2017 and was one of five finalists for the Grand Award of Design by Teknikföretagen and Svensk Form.
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