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dB Pillar Design: Thomas Bernstrand Trumpet Design: Stone Designs Virtual Reality Combo Deluxe Responsible soundscapes

1. Combo Deluxe 2. Trumpet 3. dB Pillar

At Abstracta, we know that sound matters. We’re in the business to design soundscapes that promote creativity, performance, job satisfaction, and ultimately well-being. This year, we proudly present two innovations mindfully designed to improve the soundscape. We’re also introducing a whole new way to experience our products: a 1000 m2 virtual reality soundscape. Abstracta’s aim to promote well-being requires a responsible attitude towards the environment. This year, we’re increasing our efforts for a sustainable furniture production. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified noise...

dB Pillar Design: Thomas Bernstrand A game-changer in the field of acoustic furniture With his new product for Abstracta, the price awarded Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand explores the potential of an essential element of architecture to add new value and function to a space: the pillar. dB Pillar works wonders for the soundscape. In combination with the material, the design of the product gives it unique acoustic features. It radically reduces the levels of low frequency noise, that most products fail to deal with. It’s not an overstatement to say that dB Pillar is a game-changer in its...

dB Pillar shows that textile waste isn’t trash, but a valuable resource.

dB Pillar radically reduces the levels of low frequency noise, that most products fail to deal with.

Well-being and sustainability goes hand in hand If you’re in the business for the sake of human well-being, then you cannot ignore the wellbeing of future generations. Ultimately, to create better soundscapes is a mission that requires responsibility and careful attention to the environmental impact of our business. Abstracta uses only high-quality materials that ensure that the products last a long time. All products are produced to be easy to repair, easy to reuse, and easy to recycle. ”Our long-term goal is to shift to a circular economy, where we use only pure and recycled materials for...

Abstracta 2030 100% Carbon-neutral 100% Circular 100% FSC-certified wood 100% Möbelfakta certified products Abstracta supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We focus on the five goals to which we can contribute most.

Abstracta today Nearly all the wood we use come from documented sustainable sources. Our aim is to use recycled wood for our wood components. We use acoustic filling made from recycled materials like textile waste and plastic bottles. We favour local suppliers. Textiles produced in Sweden and Europe. 100% renewable energy for heating and electricity. Module-based products that are easy to repair and recycle. Transport partners with Euro 5 and Euro 6 vehicles. Since 2019, all our new company cars are either electric or hybrid electric.

Trumpet Design: Stone Designs Make silence and light ”It is not an acoustic panel with LED lighting. It’s a lamp with acoustic properties”, states Cutu Mazuelos, who designed Trumpet for Abstracta together with Eva Prego. The difference is important for the designers who aims to contribute not only with acoustic function but also with a temperament that enriches everyday life. which become obvious when you have a close look. Here, the designers use the iconic shape of the music instrument to both direct the light and to make a subtle connection to the space below the lamp. Trumpet is...

Trumpet functions as an inverted trumpet – instead of making noise it soaks it up.

Virtual Reality Welcome to Abstracta’s VR exhibition space

Virtual Reality Abstracta opens a whole new virtual reality exhibition space. It is a 1000 m2 palace surrounded by friendly summertime clouds. The virtual reality exhibition space is developed in collaboration with the Stockholm-based architect studio MER. It is designed to give the viewer a tactile sense of the products as well as an enhanced experience of the soundscape they establish. One of the aims is to increase the interaction between sight and hearing, which is essential for Abstracta, a company committed to create better soundscapes. a great experience of our products. You don’t...

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality ”Our ambition is to make our products accessible to all. Now everyone, no matter where they live or work, can have a great experience of our products.” Åsa van Drumpt, marketing manager

Combo Deluxe Combo Deluxe Design: Pia Wallén A playful, tactile, and minimalist marriage of beauty and pleasing acoustics. In her new work for Abstracta, Pia Wallén has employed subtle, yet radical, means of redefining and expanding the role and significance of sound absorbers. The stylised figures draw a clear connection to Pia Wallén’s previous works. Here, however, they have been magnified to assert themselves in an interior space. In contrast to the screens’ warm and far more restrained felt materials, they feel like joyful cheers. ”I wanted to enhance the bracket’s form and thereby...

Combo Deluxe

Combo Deluxe

Combo Deluxe The stylised figures draw a clear connection to Pia Wallén’s previous works. Here, however, they have been magnified to assert themselves in an interior space.

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