This year’s Stockholm Creative Edition (SCE), takes place May 22-25. Like in previous years, Stockholm Creative Edition draws inspiration from the local, innovative, and creative vibes of Stockholm. Over the course of four days, Sweden’s capital city will be full of interesting design from established players and emerging talents and brands alike.
“Exploring the next generation of designers and brands feels more important and inspiring than ever. Visitors might just catch a glimpse of tomorrow’s design icons at SCE 2024,” says Ulrika Attar, one of the initiators behind SCE.
This year’s Stockholm Creative Edition – like last year – is dedicated to spotlighting new design studios and emerging designers who work with diverse typologies, materials, and expressions – all united by the ambition to be independent and progressive forces in contemporary Swedish design. SCE strives to showcase the rising influence of both designers and producers who challenge the ingrained image of Swedish design, steering it in a more internationally appealing direction, while celebrating their Nordic heritage. All with an intensified focus on details, materials and sustainability – and a bolder design language.
A key part of making SCE an even stronger platform for contemporary design was the curation of captivating content for this year’s hub, found at Doubble Space, a unique Art Nouveau building from 1906 designed by Ferdinand Boberg, which previously housed Stockholm Gasverks. At the hub, this year’s SCE exhibition, New Contemporary, will showcase contemporary design, alongside works from new design studios and producers like Studio Tooj, Enkei, Notchi, Andrea Tsang and Bodafors. Moreover, Café Bebo, featuring furniture from Bebo Objects, will offer Swedish fika alongside a pop-up experience with Japanese tea expert Yuko Ono.
The 2024 New Contemporary exhibition features fresh work from over 30 designers, including creatives from across the Nordic countries and the Czech Republic. Visitors can enjoy design from Malin Pierre, KunSik Choi, Adrian Bursell, Siri Svedborg, Heli Juuti, Dominika Petrtýlová, Erik Bratsberg, Federico Fiermonti, Christian Sandbye, Jonas Oppedal and Kelly Koning, among others.
New for 2024 is a series of panel discussions with Strategisk Arkitektur, targeting professionals in architecture, interior and product design. The conversation will center around the impact of AI on the architect’s role, wooden architecture, and circular design – topics at the forefront of the design industry today.
As always, the buzz is not confined to SCE’s hub alone. Throughout Stockholm, design studios and ateliers are opening their doors, offering visitors a firsthand glimpse into their creative worlds. Moreover, temporary exhibitions, events, and pop-up activities will showcase the diversity and innovation of contemporary design.
Highlights from this year’s program include:
Studio TOOJ
Founded in Stockholm by the creative duo Johan Wilén and Ashley Chong. Studio TOOJ is captivated by the allure of restrained beauty. All their creations have a common denominator: quiet sophistication, with a loud obsession for nuanced layers of detail. With a commitment to sustainability and ethical production, Studio TOOJ is here to create pieces that are not only beautifully crafted, but also built to last. Less than one year after opening, Studio TOOJ made their international debut at Alcova at Milan Design Week and is now proud to be exhibiting for the first time in Stockholm.
Address: Doubble Space, Torsgatan 22, Stockholm
Interesting Times Gang – From Milan to Stockholm
After an incredible exhibition at Isola, during this year’s Milan Design Week, the Interesting Times Gang is now setting their sights on the Stockholm Creative Edition with an intimate yet even more ambitious exhibition, this time in their hometown of Stockholm. During SCE, visitors can explore an open studio featuring a selection of revolutionary furniture derived from ocean biomass, including the Infauna lamp and Gigas table, made from oyster shells, and the Kelp stool, made of Nordic sugar kelp, recently launched in Milan. On May 23, ITG will unveil an exclusive, never-before-seen, collection in a brand-new design collaboration with the international mobility company Bolt. Together, they explored reimagining cities and urban landscapes as spaces tailored for people, rather than cars. Together, they reincarnated car waste, such as detonated airbags, into a collection of street furniture and outdoor lighting.
Address: Vikingagatan 11, Stockholm
Premiere for Wildcrafted – a contemporary craft studio
Wildcrafted converges the raw, untamed beauty of nature and exquisite form created by human hands. Bringing a poetic perspective on everyday rituals with a sense-evoking product world that alludes to escapism, slow living and cultural traditions. Each object is meticulously crafted for its purpose, with deep reverence for the material’s unique characteristics and qualities. Wildcrafted was founded by Lina Öhlund, an MFA industrial designer, design researcher and ceramicist. Wildcrafted is handmade in her Stockholm studio or sustainably produced in collaboration with local artisanal manufacturers such as Stockholm Glas, Klässbols and Reijmyre.
Address: Asteh, Bondegatan 46, Stockholm
Notchi launches Circus table at Bebo Objects
Notchi Architects is a multifaceted design studio that integrates architecture and visual arts at different scales in different contexts, both public and private. Notchi is based in Gothenburg and run by Oscar Gillkvist and Carl-Magnus Elander, who collaborate with architects, industrial designers, artists and graphic designers.
During this year’s edition of SCE, Notchi will be launching their Circus table in collaboration with Bebo Objects, which will be on show at the Café Bebo pop up.
“We’re thrilled to be showcasing our new collaboration with Notchi at Stockholm Creative Edition 2024 – the venue is an ideal setting for spotlighting contemporary design, exuding an atmosphere of innovation and ambition that speaks to a discerning audience. “We like that,” says Mattias Karlsson, owner and CEO Bebo Objects.
Address: Doubble Space, Torsgatan 22, Stockholm
Ateljé Södersvik at Lusthuset in Spökparken
Ateljé Södersvik presents the exhibition Approximations.
“Furniture is always close to us. It engages our bodies, and the room around us. When we rest, there is a bed between us and the floor. This proximity makes furniture our kin, and just like us, it takes part in a social and spatial context, whose relations it forms,” says Anders Johansson, an architect who runs the Ateljé Södersvik architect firm and Bodafors Furniture.
The installation consists of 13 furniture-like pieces in coarse wood. They stand close, slightly in the shadows, waiting to emerge. Ateljé Södersvik has developed an interest in how wood may offer new roles and meanings that resonate with our world.
Address: Lusthuset in Spökparken, Drottninggatan 116 B
Niklas Runesson launches own collection
As an autodidactic artist, designer and carpenter, Niklas creates objects that are just as much sculptural furniture as they are a work of art you can sit on. Using few components, he reaches beyond Scandinavian minimalism. Each object is carefully crafted by hand, bringing a living presence to the room, adding new perspectives depending on where it is placed and from what angle it is viewed. Niklas is launching a new collection of furniture in a pop-up space, shown side by side with other unique objects.
Address: Pop-up venue, Årstaängsvägen 11, Stockholm
Studio Andrea Tsang
Andrea Tsang grew up in Hong Kong, flourished at art school in England, and honed her skills in the Shanghai fashion industry. In 2020, she pivoted from a stressful corporate job to a more balanced life working with clay and a potter’s wheel. By 2021, she had moved to Stockholm, where she founded Studio ANDREA TSANG.
Studio ANDREA TSANG offers more than just functional objects. Blending her East Asian heritage with Scandinavian functionalism, she seeks to inspire on many levels. Her work was exhibited at 2024 Milan Design Week and during SCE, she offers an installation in which both the collection ’Amphora’ and ’Terra’ are represented.
Address: Doubble Space, Torsgatan 22, Stockholm
Enkei
From trash to lighting. Founded with a vision to drive change, Enkei seeks to shape beauty from the broken while challenging outdated production systems. Through innovative materials and circular production methods, the company transforms waste into high-quality artefacts filled with intention, reminding people of their conscious choices at home and in their everyday lives, hence the name of Enkei’s first object, a table lamp called Reminder. The lamp, made by hand in Scandinavia, exists in the space between art, function, and innovation, where strong geometric forms and contrasts are at the center, highlighting the materials.
Address: Doubble Space, Torsgatan 22, Stockholm
Participant in Stockholm Creative Edition 2024:
Andrea Tsang, Ateljé Södersvik, Bebo Objects, Beckmans College of Design, Bodafors Furniture, Enkei, Interesting Times Gang, Kajsa Melchior, Niklas Runesson, Notchi, Pompa Shop, Studio TOOJ, Susan Szatmáry, Wildcrafted, Adrian Bursell, Carl Folkesson, Carl Lindström, Carolina Weigl, Christian Sandbye, Dominika Petrtýlová, Ellen Hedin, Emma Hasselblad, Erik Bratsberg, Federico Fiermonti, Gabriela Štenclová, Heli Juuti, John Andersson, Jonas Oppedal, Juan Guevara Verjel, Kelly Koning, Klara Fahrman, KunSik Choi, Laura Larsen, Lisa Juhlin, Lukas Carpelan, Malin Pierre, Margherita Pozzali, Maria Pita Guerreiro, Muhui Ou, Nada El Kateb, Pia Amsell, Que Zhouying, Rebecka Franzén, Rosita Ståhl, Seoyoung Shin, Simon Bågstam, Siri Svedborg, Toma Sova and more.
