{"id":468,"date":"2015-08-02T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2018-03-15T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:25:42","slug":"swede-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/swede-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Swede Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease1.jpg\" alt=\"BXXlght at swedish summer at heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Design writer <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellenhimelfarb\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Himelfarb <\/a><\/span>reveals the quiet charm of Swedish design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time I saw an all-white room was in Stockholm. In a perfectly quaint gabled house, past a lane of shops whose windows were meticulously curated, the owners hand painted the walls and wood floors an almost bluish white that faded out into the overcast sky out the windows.<\/p>\n<p>Their furniture \u2013 simple <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/furniture\/dining-room\/chairs.html\">leather dining chairs<\/a><\/span> by David Design, a wooden <em>k\u00f6kssoffa<\/em> (kitchen sofa) pulled up to the Super-Ellipse table by Bruno Mathsson, the designer bookshelves from ROOM Stockholm \u2013\u00a0seemed to float enticingly in the space. In the corner of the compact living space was a 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century <em>kakel ugn<\/em>, a cylindrical wood-burning stove nearly three metres tall, with a glazed white surface garlanded with fanciful ceramic and brass detailing. People were actually ripping them out of their homes back then in the 1990s, said my friend, and leaving them on the street for the taking.<\/p>\n<p>Scandinavian design, and Swedish in general, had been influencing UK furniture manufacturers for decades by then. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/brand\/ercol.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ercol<\/span><\/a> and later G-Plan had embraced Northern European values of functionality, sustainability and a low-slung look throughout the latter half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Yet it wasn\u2019t until the late \u201990s that Nordic functionalism truly took hold and the British began to steer away from heavy farmhouse pine and Italian flash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease3.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish Summer at Heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our two nations weren\u2019t all that different, after all. We share a great deal of dreary weather, and the idea that white could reflect what little light we got meant that paint companies were suddenly producing more whites than the Eskimos had words for snow to cover our deep heritage reds and greens. Dwindling resources meant we had to make do with available, sustainable materials \u2013\u00a0and eco movements put paid to the notion that we could and should look beyond our borders for the finest of everything.<\/p>\n<p>British shelter magazines brought us white and teak interiors from the length of Sweden. The <em>Wallpaper<\/em>* generation caught up on names like B\u00f8rge Mogensen \u2013 available only through the rare enlightened importer like Twentytwentyone. And they began scheduling holidays to coincide with the Stockholm Furniture Fair, despite the fact that it landed smack in the middle of February. In 1999 <em>Wallpaper<\/em>* founder <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tyler Br\u00fbl\u00e9 <\/span>bought a weekend home on an island in the Swedish archipelago, near Stockholm, and sang its praises in print. Often.<\/p>\n<p>The world began coming around to postwar design \u2013\u00a0not only furniture but architecture and fashion \u2013\u00a0partly from being exposed to that Swedish ideal. Simple, accessible <em>funkis<\/em>, or functionalism, was born of the tradition of craftsmanship and the necessity of making efficient use of limited materials after the wars.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Italian olive oil industry or strawberry farming in Belgium, small family businesses have allowed the Swedes to maintain a consistent quality across its furniture manufacturing, and it shows in the products\u2019 quiet accessibility. I once asked Anna-Lena Knutsson, executive director of Hyssna-based furniture designer Albin i Hyssna, what it was like to compete in her industry as head of a small, private operation run from her grandfather\u2019s hometown. She replied: \u201cWe\u2019re all family-owned businesses here.\u201d Certainly there\u2019s an echo of that in the UK\u2019s current lust for handicraft and the efforts to restore furniture manufacturing with skilled regional makers.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnestudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Acne Studios<\/span><\/a> opened on Dover Street to showcase its outr\u00e9 jeans and graphic casuals, our perception of Swedish design began to broaden. A new generation of designers out of colleges like Beckmans, Konstfack and Umea were breaking out of the established canon and moving beyond what we\u2019d expect from a Swede. Arctic-born Monica F\u00f6rster, designer for Swedese, Offect and a dozen international manufacturers, comes to mind. As do Stockholm-based architects Claesson, Koivisto and Rune, who design not only striking minimalist homes but also the furnishings that belong there \u2013 like the customisable Concord chair and the deceptively simple Kelly chair.<\/p>\n<p>More recently Marcus Huber has brought young designers like Stefan Borselius and the seven-year-old design studio Note to design furniture for Fogia, a Stockholm-based manufacturer with its own factory and a penchant for unexpected curves and colours. Daniela Upmark, who studied in Lund, took advantage of our current obsession with lighting and atmosphere when she hooked up her <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">BXXLight<\/span>,<\/span> a made-to-order lightbox that resembles a vintage cinema marquee. Even Acne itself has designed prototype sofas and chairs that defy classic Swedish lines.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels occasionally come from surprising places. Markus Johansson, scion of the Albin i Hyssna family, has developed a much more surreal, organic look, referencing underwater life and often appearing in a historically un-Swedish matt black. Former furniture consultants Chris Martin (an Englishman) and Magnus Eleb\u00e4ck launched the furniture company Massproductions to explore industrial production in a more efficient way than perhaps their previous clients had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease5.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish Summer Heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease5.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Guard of Swedish designers might flout the traditional Swedish ideal yet their pieces sit rather comfortably within a Swedish context. Or any context, really. When was the last time you saw someone reach for a step stool that wasn\u2019t the Step by Karl Malmvall? It retails with everyone from Design House Stockholm to MoMA Store and has come to define a new standard in functional design.<\/p>\n<p>Today more than 50,000 Swedes live in London and the landscape of Swedish businesses in the capital proves the two cultures are not just fair-weather friends. A few years back a Scandinavian friend passed me a box of L\u00e4kerol liquorice sea salt pastilles, and despite the fact I spent the rest of the afternoon wrenching them out of my teeth, it was a habit-forming moment.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered L\u00e4kerol about the same time the most talked-about bakery in East London was the new, fabulous Fabrique, and twisted <em>kanelbullar <\/em>rolls were the reason nobody could keep to their anti-carb diets. (Denizens of Soho had long since been hooked since <a href=\"https:\/\/nordicbakery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Nordic Bakery<\/span><\/a> pitched up in Golden Square.) By the time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stories.com\/gb\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&amp;Other Stories<\/span><\/a> opened near its sister COS on Regent Street in 2013, our relationship with contemporary Swedish culture was bonded like so many asymmetric jumpers.<\/p>\n<p>Visit any of those establishments (and their imitators) and you\u2019ll also get an eyeful of Swedish design in all its incarnations, from tall wood Windsor chairs to punchy, patterned ceramics to slick, slimline display rails. It seeps under your skin. That\u2019s quite a legacy for a handful of families plugging a time-honoured craft. But there it is, plain as day, a sign we\u2019ve seen the light. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellenhimelfarb\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Himelfarb<\/a><\/span> lives in London and is a writer specialising in architecture, design and travel. Ellen writes for Wallpaper* and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, and is the co-author of the<em> London Design Guide. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swedish Summer at Heal\u2019s\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/swedish-summer-at-heals\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Swedish Summer at Heal&#8217;s<\/span><\/a> is an event at our flagship store from 27th July &#8211; 23rd August 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease7.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish Summer at Heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease7.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease8.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish Hasbeens at Heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease8.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease6.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish Summer at Heals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease6.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/swedeease6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design writer Ellen Himelfarb reveals the quiet charm of Swedish design. &#8220;The first time I saw an all-white room was in Stockholm. 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