Furniture, lamps and jewellery by designers from Norway, which demonstrate sustainable design and the circular economy, will be displayed at an exhibition called Join at this year's Milan design week. 
Join is this year's offering from Norwegian Presence at Milan design week, which runs from 9 to 14 April. It will showcase the work of 21 designers, alongside seven of the country's leading manufacturers, in three connected rooms in what was previously a garage.
Norwegian Presence's Join exhibition will present work of 21 designers and craft makers from Norway, including Stine Aas' Alter light
Curated by Jannicke Kråkvik and Alessandro D'Orazio who together make up design studio Kråkvik&D'Orazio, the work on show aims to highlight the economic and social dimensions of circular design. "Why should we design a new thing" In addition to aesthetics, the object must have a value in terms of materiality or durability," said Kråkvik.
"The items we have chosen must give something in return ? through longevity, decomposability or the way in which they are produced."
Tron Meyer's Cyclop series is a set of tables aluminium, larvikite and Norwegian pine
Oslo-based designers Kristine Bjaadal and Hallgeir Homstvedt conceived the exhibition design. It is constructed entirely from recyclable and reusable materials, allowing it to be dismantled and repurposed once the design week ends.
"We noticed that a lot of the products chosen for the exhib...