The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where terrazzo beer taps, conversation pits and twisted aluminium were the highlights from 5 February.
6.00pm – Dezeen Awards 2025 launches in Stockholm
Amidst all of the design week busyness, the Dezeen Awards team is also in Stockholm for the launch of the 2025 programme. Entries opened today – what are you waiting for?
Writing in the launch announcement, Dezeen Awards director Claire Barrett says “I bet every designer went into the profession to make a difference. Design matters”.
The Dezeen team are currently making their way from across the city to Nordiska Galleriet, which will host the official launch of Dezeen Awards 2025 with a talk and party this evening.
See you here tomorrow for more live coverage from Stockholm Design Week!
5.30pm – Spanish semla
Dezeen’s resident Swede, Cajsa Carlson, couldn’t resist having a traditional semla when offered at the showroom of Spanish furniture brand Andreu World.
Though they’re technically supposed to be eaten around Shrove Tuesday, the cream and almond paste-filled sweet buns have started popping up earlier and earlier.
And according to Andreu World, the semlas are also very popular with the brand’s Spanish employees, one of whom said they should be available all year round.
5.00pm – terrazzo on tap
Designer Gustav Winsth looked to traditional taverns when designing this city showroom for glassware brand Bobo, reports Dezeen’s Jane Englefield.
Created as an after-work spot to enjoy drinks sipped from Bobo’s wafer-thin glasses, the showroom includes a pair of distinctive terrazzo taps designed to echo what they pour: one long tap in gold and white for foamy beer and another short pink-red tap for negronis – better try both, just to be sure.
Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide ›
4.45pm – skål!
Architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR) took journalists, including Dezeen’s Jennifer Hahn who filed this report, on an exclusive tour of its new studio, taking over a grand 1890s apartment in Södermalm, which once belonged to “some wealthy family”.
CKR renovated the home, preserving the classical, linear arrangement of the stucco-clad rooms with their ceramic fireplaces, while new shelving was added using wood repurposed from the studio’s 2021 anniversary exhibition at Stockholm’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
The studio also showcased its latest collection for Swedish heritage glassware brand Orrefors, using three geometric forms – the cone, sphere and cylinder – to create glasses for any kind of drink (including, and perhaps most importantly, tequila shots).
CKR founders Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune said they used an almost architectural approach to designing the assortment, aiming to create “a city of buildings” when setting the dinner table.
Personally, I’m obsessed but I fear I might break them within about 2.5 seconds of picking them up. – Jennifer Hahn
4.15pm – feline photogenic
The Dezeen team met the first pet of design week today!
At design studio Matsson Marnell‘s exhibition in co-founder Magda Marnell’s home, the family cat – whose name Dezeen sadly didn’t cat-ch – posed in front of the striking design pieces on show. – Cajsa Carlson
3.15pm – functional sculptures
Teased on the blog yesterday (4.00pm entry), Cajsa Carlson has now written up the full exhibition from experimental design platform Älvsjö Gård at Stockholm Furniture Fair. Check it out below.
2.45pm – celebrating collaboration
To mark the anniversary of their decade-long collaboration, &Tradition has released a duo of new products from designer Luca Nichetto.
The Muno chair is the “little brother” of Nichetto’s Cloud Sofa – the first-ever product he created for the brand – while Gio is a metal homage to Gio Ponti‘s iconic Murano glass chandelier.
Later this year, &Tradition teased, there will also be a celebration of the designer’s best-selling Lato side table.
“We are celebrating ten years by doing a special thing with this little fellow that allowed me to live properly,” Nichetto joked. “Before that, I was broke.”
Last night, Nichetto explained the story behind these new products in a talk with Dezeen’s Max Fraser, a fun-filled 40 minutes with plenty of anecdotes from Nichetto’s career.
2.00pm – best foot forward
Dezeen’s Jennifer Hahn has some great lines from Stockholm Furniture Fair director Daniel Heckscher who, speaking to journalists, said “we’re aiming to be the best design fair in the world”.
“Not the biggest – we’ll never beat Milan – but the best. I’m not quite sure how we’re going to get there yet but we’re going to get there.”
1.30pm – roll the dice
Dezeen’s Clara Finnigan is taking a time check at David Taylor‘s Special Effects exhibit, on show at auction house Bukowskis.
Taylor’s latest foray into collectible design includes a modern take on a grandfather clock.
The exhibition consists of 25 exclusive pieces created by Taylor in his signature material, aluminium.
Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide ›
1.15pm – disrupt more, waste less
Max’s meatballs were well-earned, having just come from the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair where he moderated the latest Design Disruptors talk with with designer and educator Ineke Hans, who talked about her work and how to disrupt more, waste less and act better.
In the last of four Design Disruptors events that Dezeen has organised this week, editor-at-large Amy Frearson has just taken to the same stage for a panel discussion titled The AI-volution, with speakers Sean Barrett from Interesting Times Gang; design director of FranklinTill Marta Giralt Dunjó; Copy Lab founder Carl-Axel Wahlström; and Gharage‘s Alexandra Zenner.
Marta Giralt Dunjó said “to truly expand our creative potential, we need AI collaborators that challenge us, provoke critic thinking and make space for reflection, experimentation and even failure.”
1.00pm – the money shot
Dezeen’s Max Fraser is enjoying Swedish meatballs for lunch with Annica Eklund, creative director of House of Bolon, who is hosting a pop-up this week in the chic Stockholm restaurant Riche.
12.30pm – a seat at the table
NJRD is unveiling timber furniture at the Grand Relations office, including a dining table, chairs and a sleek, long bench called Vior – designed for communal meals and named after the Norse word for wood.
A number of enviable design objects are on display at Grand Relations’ office, including a cluster of classic Alvar Aalto for Iittala vases and an irresistible stack of Dezeen Dispatch newspapers. – Jane Englefield
12.00pm – Fit for a king!
Dezeen social editor Clara Finnigan has been to see seven limited edition pieces by Nick Ross on show at Public Service Gallery.
The collection uses the pruned branches of linden trees planted by King Frederick I of Sweden in the early 1700s.
11.30am – love is your colour
It’s all about colour for design studio Form Us With Love at Stockholm Furniture Fair this year, where the brand presents its collaboration with Swedish company Dalform.
Form Us With Love’s collection, called Soft Edge, included benches and cabinets with curved shapes and bright hues, and were a new interpretation of Dalform’s public-space furniture.
Founders and designers Jonas Petterson and John Löfgren drew on their knowledge of modular design to create the vibrant pieces, which can be combined to create larger storage or seating systems. – Cajsa Carlson
11.00am – brilliantly bad AI designs
Leading design store Nordiska Galleriet has started producing its own products, launching this week with the Lamp 53 by Axel Wannberg and the Empire chair by Sami Kallio.
Further to these launches, design studio Front has been experimenting with the possibilities and limitations of AI, with an installation in the store exhibiting their “AI-brilliantly bad” collection.
This evening, Nordiska Galleriet will host the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025 with a talk and party – entries have opened today! – Max Fraser
10.30am – 3D-printed feet!
Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn has spotted these 3D-printed ceramic joints, which hold up the wooden framework of a pavilion in Stockholm Furniture Fair‘s Greenhouse area, created by design firms Polymorf and Studio Pank.
The flexible building system was constructed using timber from diseased elm trees and crooked cherry wood, which would otherwise have been incinerated.
9:45am – design of note
Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson has been to see Note Design Studio‘s latest project for flooring company Tarkett Ateljé.
The Stockholm-based studio has redesigned Tarkett’s showroom, adding in a centrepiece that is bound to be a talking point – a huge circular conversation pit, lined with yellow-ochre carpet.
Matching cushions can be added or removed, so the pit can be used in various ways. The designers have done such a job of colour-matching the textile that accident-prone Frearson couldn’t tell the difference – and nearly tried to step down on the wrong one! – Amy Frearson
[Ed. note: You can play quite a fun game of render vs reality for this project by checking out the listing in the Stockholm Design Week digital guide from Dezeen Events Guide.]
9.30am – god morgon!
Welcome to day two of our live coverage of Stockholm Design Week. As the team get out and about in Stockholm to bring you more design, catch up on everything that happened on Tuesday at Stockholm Design Week 2025.
Later today Dezeen’s editorial director Max Fraser and editor-at-large Amy Frearson will be moderating the next two Design Disruptors talks at the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair.
For our first print publication, Dezeen Dispatch, Dezeen asked some of the city’s most prominent designers (and one architect) to share their recommendations for the best places to eat, drink and soak up culture across the Swedish capital.
Find out about everything going on in the Stockholm Design Week guide created by Dezeen Events Guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.
Follow the live coverage and catch up on everything that happened on Tuesday at Stockholm Design Week (4 February).
See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
All times are Stockholm time.
The lead image is by Amy Frearson.
