21 Nov 2024
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Culture Design

Welcome to Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024: Celebrating Scandinavian Design Excellence

Photo credit: Vladimir Perez Vallejos Stockholm Furniture Fair, Scandinavia’s premier platform for furniture, lighting design, and architecture, welcomes professionals, enthusiasts, and industry leaders from across the globe. Held annually at Stockholmsmässan, Mässvägen 1, Älvsjö, the fair serves as a hub for business, networking, product launches, and innovation. Dedicated to promoting sustainable, innovative, and inclusive design, […]

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Creative Arts Design

Stockholm Design Week to Showcase the Best Interior Design Trends for 2024

If you’re looking for inspiration to spruce up your living spaces, make plans to check out Stockholm Design Week, an annual leisure event that highlights the latest architecture and home design trends. This year, the event will run from Feb. 5-11 and will feature installations, exhibitions, open showrooms, and fairs. The second part of SDW will take […]

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Travel

YLC Travel – Vienna for the Weekend Traveller

Less than 2 hours flight from Stockholm, Vienna is definitely a must-see for a short weekend or longer ! This guide is written for travelers, solo or as a couple, who like to experience the city as a local would and avoid any tourist traps. There is a lot of tourism in Vienna, and therefore […]

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Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

Josef Frank’s Against Design – Inspirational To This Day

After a resoundingly successful run at Vienna’s Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art early last year, ArkDes – the Architecture and Design Center – has brought “Josef Frank: Against Design” to exhibit back in Stockholm. The most comprehensive exhibition ever on the world-famous architect and designer, it shows the breadth of Frank’s diverse production – […]

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Design Lifestyle

Stockholm Design Week SPECIAL – Inspiration taking shape

For a whole week each year, Stockholm becomes a meeting point for Nordic and other European brands that are shaping the furniture and interior design world. You probably didn’t know Scandinavian design is so strong that it has become a point of reference for everyone with an eye in the inspiring interiors. Why Scandinavian design? Because of it’s […]

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Community Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

Mosebacke Design District: Another Design & Culture Mecca

As Stockholm Design Week returns on 6 to 12 February with its promise to remain as each year’s most important week for Scandinavian design by filling the Swedish capital’s days and nights with creative meetings, world premieres and hundreds of fantastic events – as thoroughly listed online, make it a point to make a beeline […]

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Culture Design

New Nordic Design 2015

Once the Swedes have said their final “Hej då” to the holiday season and are slowly coming out of the darkness, Formex opens it’s doors with all the latest design and home trends for Spring and Summer 2015.

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Lifestyle

Mellow Design at Hem & Villa

Living in the UK and owning my own property meant that I was among the thousands of keen home-DIY-ers who would spend weekends roaming the aisles of B&Q, Wickes or Homebase. A home exhibition such as Hem & Villa would set my heart racing with excitement of possibly finding a new product or fancy addition […]

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Culture Design

Spectacular Swede: Designer and Author Anton Hörnfeldt

NYC Designer Anton Hörnfeldt is 22, moving fast, and not afraid to break the mold. YLC catches up to ask him about fashion and being Swedish in the Big Apple.

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Art Culture Design Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle

Sweden’s Young Fashion Stars: Lina Michal

Swedish skies are bright with up-and-coming fashion stars. YLC spoke to Lina Michal, one of the country’s future fashion trailblazers, about her rocketing career. Stockholm’s elite design college graduates have increasingly been scooping up awards as well as prized post-graduate places at prestigious international fashion colleges. Lina Michal, a Beckman’s School of Design graduate, recently claimed […]

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