The Italian designer Luca Nichetto has ventured into fashion creating a timeless collection not bound to season or gender. Designed for the new French lifestyle brand La Manufacture, where Nichetto is Creative Director, the collection consists of 23 different pieces with a variety of graphic prints and bold colour combinations.
...One of Sweden’s leading glass and ceramic designers, Ingegerd Råman, is returning to her roots by releasing a new series for Orrefors where she once realised her dream of designing cut glass.
...Even if Stockholm design week was a small version of its former self, it did bring some joy to the design industry with several great initiatives. While some brands opted for digital launches, others staged exhibitions and opened their showrooms by appointment.
...Besides launching brand new pieces, some of Scandinavia’s biggest furniture companies are opening up their archives this year. The pandemic has made many of them rethink and adapt their offers.
...Besides launching new products – the table Savoa by Finnish designer Sakari Hartikainen and the Pinot seating collection by graduate designer Mika Lindblad – Swedese is rediscovering their old designs this year.
...Next week Veermakers launches its first collection in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded by Swedish Liljencrantz interior design studio and the KFK Master-cabinet makers, Veermakers design and produce furniture and accessories in honest materials combining a contemporary aesthetic with well crafted design.
...Having grown up on a remote Norwegian island, we asked international acclaimed stylist Per Olav Sølvberg, based in Bergen, to pick 7 Norwegian retreats that stand out in its beautiful surroundings. His biggest inspiration still stems from stormy oceans and high mountains.
...In 2019 six Swedish design studios were asked to create a sustainable material or product using waste from a company’s industrial production process. The results will be showcased at the exhibition Metabolic Process for Leftovers that opens on February 4 at Form Design Centre in Stockholm, curated by Kiosk Studio.
...Named after the small stream that flows through the properties, Rörbäck Forest Retreat outside Varberg on the west coast of Sweden, is surrounded by one of the country’s foremost beech forest areas, which includes twenty lakes and twelve nature reserves.
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