“Every space has its own character, and I believe you get the best out of it if you really take the time to understand it,” says Paris-based interior architect Marika Dru. In her work, she combines classical French principles with contemporary restraint, preserving the character of each interior.
...“Being a designer also means you need to be ahead of your time,” says Gunilla Allard. With a career spanning four decades, she has played a vital role in shaping the Swedish design landscape. We visit her at her home in Stockholm, originally designed by Sven Markelius in the 1920s.
...A reissued classic from the nineties, a vase made from leftovers, and a chair originally designed for a Stockholm restaurant. Over the course of a day in the Swedish capital, photographer Martin Brusewitz takes the pulse of Swedish design.
...“A space is not enriched only by what is visible. It becomes richer through imagination,” says Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara. With Numbra, his new lighting collection for &Tradition, he explores light and shadow, imperfection and the dialogue between Japanese and Scandinavian sensibilities.
...”The more off-grid we are, the more freedom we experience. Limitations are productive,” says artist duo Lucas and Tyra Morten. The search for a quieter, more self-determined way of living led them to a 19th-century farm on the Swedish west coast. Here, they are building a place where work and life are inseparable.
...Chef duo Adam Dahlberg and Albin Wessman have teamed up with Halleroed for their restaurant Adam Albin in central Stockholm, marking the design studio’s first restaurant project. Together, they offer a new take on fine dining – less about rules, and more about pleasure.
...Swedish artist Erik Thörnqvist has an eye for the eccentricities hiding in the objects we surround ourselves with. In his work, familiar designs become surreal and often humorous, prompting viewers to reconsider our assumptions about beauty, utility and value. In conversation with art historian Kristian Vistrup Madsen.
...We meet with Ilse Crawford at her Neckinger Mills studio – a Grade II-listed former tannery on Abbey Street in Bermondsey, south London. Crawford and her husband Oscar Peña have lived in the building since 2018 and the studio has been here since 2012. In 2021 Studioilse moved in to one of the spaces that was formerly a fine arts restoration studio with a view to turning it into a workshop, a place where physicality is first and foremost. Here the team can work together and lay out large-scale material samples, often with their clients, so they can touch and feel the materiality of a project, and understand the final result, rather than prioritising screens.
...Artist and interior architect Caroushka Streifert shares her unique perspective on construction and object fascination. From observing downpipes instead of shop windows due to her architectural heritage, to creating art from found objects in cities and nature, her work critiques mass consumption and the clutter of modern life. Operating from a top-floor studio in Stockholm, Streifert’s creations are inspired by everything from urban debris to natural finds, emphasising the importance of quantity in making a statement. Her journey from interior architecture to art reflects a deep engagement with the material and conceptual aspects of space and objects, culminating in art books that document her extensive and playful exploration of her craft.
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