Scented Candles
Lighting a candle, reading a good book, enjoying something – or someone – warm. We think this is how to enjoy a moment of cosiness.
Skandinavisk Candles celebrate the uniqueness & diversity of Scandinavia. Made from a blend of perfume and vegetable wax with a 100% cotton wick & engraved beechwood lid & hand-poured into a painted glass vessel.
Design Store
If you appreciate Scandinavian Design check out the following;
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Dan Svarth ( b.1942) – Danish furniture designer
Dan Svarth is a Danish designer. He studied at the Kunsthåndvrærkerskolen, Copenhagen, to 1967, furniture design, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, to 1969. Read More →
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A Swedish National Treasure – Orrefors Glasbruk
Orrefors Glasbruk is a Swedish glassware manufacturer. An ironworks was established in 1726 on the property of Halleberg ( the Orrefors estate), Socken, Småland. Read More →
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Poul Kjærholm (1929 -1980) Danish designer
He was a Danish designer who worked for his friend Ejvind Kold Christiansen and created an extensive range of furniture. He received international recognition for his contributions to the ‘Formes Scandinaves’ exhibition in Paris and the legendary ‘Lunning Prize’ for his PK22 chair. LEARN MORERead More →
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Borje Rajalin (b.1933) Finnish Jewellery Designer
Borje Rajalin is a Finnish Jewellery Designer. Rajalin worked at Bertel Gardberg’s silversmith from 1952 – 1956. His design work included technical equipment, plastic fittings, cutlery, stainless steel table and cookware and with Anti Nurmesniemi in 1972 a train for the Helsinki Railway. They collaborated with station designers to make the metro stations modern and…
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Skandinavisk Scented Candles
Lighting a candle, reading a good book, enjoying something – or someone – warm. We think this is how to enjoy a moment of cosiness.Read More →
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Hermann Bongard Norwegian graphic & glassware designer
Hermann Bongard Norwegian graphic designer and glassware designer. He studied lithography and commercial design. Read MoreRead More →
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Rut Bryk (1916 – 1999) Swedish ceramicist/graphic/textile designer
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Gunilla Jung (d. 1939) Finnish silversmith and lighting designer
Gunilla Jung was a glass and lighting artist and Silversmith. She designed glassware for Karhula (later Iittala) in the 1930s at the Institute of Applied Arts in Helsinki. Maybe best known for her pioneering lighting projects, such as in Helsinki’s Savoy Theatre. Taito created her first silver designs and, later in the 1930s, others by…
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Nanna Ditzel (1923 – 2005) Danish architect and furniture designer
Nanna Ditzel, a leading Danish 20th-century designer, had also worked in furniture, textiles and jewellery design for many decades and has been one of the few women designers in the country to achieve celebrity status.Read More →
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Perttu Mentula (b.1936) Finnish architect & Interior Designers
Perttu Mentula (b.1936) was a Finnish architect and interior, exhibition, product, graphic, and furniture designer. Career Summary Between 1958-60, studiedRead More →
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Eero Aarnio (b. 1932 ) Finnish interior and industrial designer
Finnish designer Eero Aarnio (b. 1932) is a great innovator of twentieth-century furniture. His plastic chairs from the 1960s are pop culture icons that continue to be in demand, which is why Aarnio Originals began manufacturing them again in 2017 after launching at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.Read More →
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Stefan Lindfors – Finnish industrial & interior designer, film director
Stefan Lindfors is a Finnish industrial designer, interior designer, film director, and sculptor. In 1982, he graduated from the Åbo Cathedral School in Turku. He went on to study architecture at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, where he graduated in 1988.Read More →
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Benny Anette Motzfeldt (1909-1995) Norwegian graphic artist, designer
Motzfeldt is best known for her glass creations. Her work is on show at the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design in Oslo, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kunstindustrimuseum in Copenhagen, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and the Frauenau Glass Museum in Germany (donation Wolfgang Kermer). Read More →
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Louis Sparre (1866 – 1964) Swedish furniture designer
He was born in Gravellona Lomellina, Italy. He was the son of Pehr Ambjörn Sparre af Söfdeborg (1828–1921) and Teresita Adèle Josefa Gaetana Barbavara (1844–1867). His father had served as head of the banknote printing company for the Sveriges Riksbank. He spent his early childhood with his mother at Villa Teresita in Gravellona while his…
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Willy Johansson (1921- 1993) Norwegian Glass Designer
His father was at the Hadelands Glassverk, Jevnaker, where Johansson joined the glassmaking workshop in 1936. He was best known for the white rim on his clear or smoked glassware.Read More →
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30 Wonderful Color Photos of Norway in the 1960s
A delightful set of photo postcards made in Norway in the 1960s. Wonderfully, nearly all the cards in the set include a cheerful red car (of various makes), merrily making its way through the Norwegian countryside. The postcards thus evoke a series of personal snapshots of one person’s road-trip.Read More →
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Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the Twenty-First Century Paperback
Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the Twenty-First Century By Judith Gura With more than five hundred full-colour illustrations, aRead More →
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Svenskt Tenn celebrated Swedish Design Company
This celebrated Swedish design company and store was launched in Stockholm in 1924 by designer and entrepreneur Estrid Ericson and pewter designer Nils Fougstedt and, through its long‐standing success in the export market, did much to promote Scandinavian design abroad. Read More →
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Leif Erik Rasmussen Danish architect and furniture designer
Leif Erik Rasmussen is a Danish architect and furniture designer. He studied furniture design at Kunsthåndværkersklen, Copenhagen to 1968.Read More →
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Peter Opsvik Norwegian furniture designer – ergonomic chairs
Peter Opsvik is a Norwegian furniture designer. In the 1960s, studied ergonomics under Ulrich Burandt and in design schools in Bergen and Oslo. In the 1970s, in Britain and Volkwangschule filr Kunstgewerbe, Essen. 1965-70, he was a designer at the Tandberg Radio Factory.Read More →
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