Design House Stockholm
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History
Design House Stockholm was founded in 1992 by Anders Färdig, who had previous owned the brands HöganäsHöganäs
Höganäs is a locality and the seat of Höganäs Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 13,550 inhabitants in 2005.Höganäs is nationally known for its ceramics industry, Höganäs Keramik. Höganäs Keramik is part of Iittala Group....
and Boda Nova. Originally, Design House Stockholm worked only with product development for other brands. In 1997 the company founded its own product collection, based on the ideas of independent designers. The company had a major hit with the first product entering the collection - Harri Koskinen
Harri Koskinen
Harri Koskinen is a Finnish designer, born 1970 in Karstula, Finland. He has studied at the Institute Of Art And Design in Helsinki.-Career:Koskinen is probably best known for his Block Lamp, a lightbulb held inside two shaped pieces of clear glass, which is exhibited in MoMA in New York City...
’s Block Lamp
Block Lamp
The Block Lamp is a lightfitting designed by Finnish designer Harri Koskinen, and produced by Design House Stockholm. It is a seemingly simple design of a lightbulb held inside two shaped pieces of clear glass, measurements 10.2 x 15.9 x 8.9 cm . After designing the lamp in 1996, Koskinen...
designed in 1996 - which still remains among its best selling products, and have won several awards. Design House Stockholm has distinguished itself as a publisher of design rather than an average producer, in the same way publishing houses work with authors: rather than selecting designers to design a specific product, Design House Stockholm let designers present their personal ideas, of which some are selected for production . The company’s CEO Anders Färdig says Design House Stockholm’s goal is to be a mirror of the best of Scandinavian design today; and that the term Scandinavian refers to a philosophic and aesthetic perspective, rather than geography. The company is represented in MoMA
Moma
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’s permanent collection by Harri Koskinen’s Block Lamp
Block Lamp
The Block Lamp is a lightfitting designed by Finnish designer Harri Koskinen, and produced by Design House Stockholm. It is a seemingly simple design of a lightbulb held inside two shaped pieces of clear glass, measurements 10.2 x 15.9 x 8.9 cm . After designing the lamp in 1996, Koskinen...
since 2000, and Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva was an influential Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator best known in the art world for innovative work in glass, which often merged attributes of display art objects with utilitarian designations. While glass remained his most commonly addressed medium, he worked with metal,...
’s Timo Glass.
In 2009 H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
head of design Margareta van den Bosch joined Design House Stockholm’s board of directors, and Design House Stockholm launched it first Atelier collection, limited studio editions sold only in DHS’ own stores: Orb - a couture collection by Anna Bonnevier.
In 2011, Design House Stockholm opened the glassware studio Vet Hut, a small scale glassworks focused on producing high quality glass by designers like Erik Höglund, Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva
Timo Sarpaneva was an influential Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator best known in the art world for innovative work in glass, which often merged attributes of display art objects with utilitarian designations. While glass remained his most commonly addressed medium, he worked with metal,...
, and Signe Persson-Melin.
Designers
Over 60 independent designers are represented in the company’s collection; including internationally known names such as A & E DesignA & E Design
A & E Design is a Swedish design company, founded in 1968 by the duo Tom Ahlström and Hans Ehrich , after graduating from Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm...
, Ann Wåhlström, Form Us With Love, Stig Lindberg
Stig Lindberg
Stig Lindberg was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator....
, Lena Bergström
Lena Bergström
-Biography:After high school, Bergström started working as a decorator at Domus department store. She moved to Stockholm to study at various art & crafts schools, and eventually started at Konstfack, the University college of art, crafts and design in Stockholm. Bergström describes her sudies as...
, Monica Förster, Magnus Löfgren, Nina Jobs,
and Signe Persson-Melin. The company also has distinguished itself by often choosing young, promising designers in addition to more established names, such as the graduation projects Numb by Anna Bonnevier, a fashion collection; and Family Chairs by Lina Nordqvist, Twist Table by Philip Edis, and Cloud Reclining Chair by Lisa Widén.
Stores
Design House Stockholm has eight concept stores in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, London, Oslo, Frankfurt, and San Francisco; and its products are sold at, among others, Crate & Barrel, Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York and San Francisco, Conran Shop
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...
in London, Galeries Lafayette
Galeries Lafayette
- History :In 1893 Théophile Bader and his cousin Alphonse Kahn opened a fashion store in a small haberdasher's shop at the corner of rue La Fayette and the Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. In 1896, the company purchased the entire building at n°1 rue La Fayette and in 1905 the buildings at n°38, 40 et...
in Paris, Vinçon and Pilma in Barcelona, Spazio Sette in Rome, and R.G. Madden in Melbourne and Sydney. Design House Stockholm also collaborates with Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
since 2004, designing a line of tableware products. In 2010, Design House Stockholm launched the store concept OPEN in Båstad, followed by another store in Boda 2011. OPEN sells Scandinavian design products and locally produced crafts products.
Design House Stockholm’s head office is located in the modernistic building Citypalatset by architect Ivar Tengbom
Ivar Tengbom
Ivar Justus Tengbom was a Swedish architect and one of the best-known representatives of the Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s....
at Norrmalmstorg 1 in Stockholm.