The fifth edition of the Stockholm Creative Edition design festival will take place between May 21–24, 2025. This year’s edition will be even more characterized by community and encounters, focusing on bringing together more participants in shared spaces, exhibitions and activities, where designers, brands and audiences can meet and inspire each other.Two hubs – MOOD Stockholm and the festival’s annex at Lästmakargatan 5 – will serve as central meeting points.
– By building a platform that is both unpretentious and elevated, we want to celebrate Swedish and Nordic design and showcase the exceptional design we create here in Sweden. Design is an important part of our identity and culture, and we need more interesting arenas where we can showcase Sweden’s fantastic breadth and rich design expression, say Ulrika Kjellström Attar and Philippe Attar, founders of Stockholm Creative Edition.
MOOD Stockholm – The festival hub
This year, the festival’s main venue is MOOD Stockholm, where the group exhibition New Contemporarypresents newly graduated designers and a strong line-up of progressive brands, including Interesting Times Gang, Enkei, MANU, Diaform, Brutwork, Andrea Tsang, Kajsa Melchior, Fanny Schultz, Wildcrafted and many more.
Around the corner from MOOD, at Lästmakargatan 5, is the festival’s second hub, where even more contemporary and experimental design is on display.
As usual, it’s not just in the central hubs that interesting things are happening – all around Stockholm, design studios, workshops, and other spaces are opening their doors to allow visitors to experience contemporary design in architecturally and culturally interesting environments. In addition, various temporary exhibitions, events and pop-up activities will showcase the diversity and innovation of Swedish design.
A selection of highlights from this year’s Stockholm Creative Edition:
New for 2025: Two pop-up cafés at the hubs
Petit Plaisir – a travelling cake artist who creates edible sculptures, at MOOD.
Fika Lab Stockholm – contemporary Asian fika straight from Hong Kong, at Lästmakargatan 5.
Enkei – Temporary showroom at Lästmakargatan 5
Swedish circular design company Enkei is opening a temporary showroom in SCE’s annexe to present six new products and launch a lifetime guarantee on its entire range.
Driven by the idea of ‘beauty in the broken,’ Enkei transforms construction waste and electronic scrap into innovative, handmade objects. From sculptural table and ceiling lamps to modular candlesticks, each object tells a material story with a functional form. Among the materials used is ReCeramix™, Enkei’s proprietary recycled ceramic material.
Photo credit: Louise Barthon
Hidden icon unveiled: Sigurd Lewerentz Riksförsäkringsanstalt
For the first time during Stockholm Creative Edition, the doors to the former Riksförsäkringsanstalten (the National Insurance Office), designed by modernist pioneer Sigurd Lewerentz, will be opened.
Ateljé Södersvik presents a site-specific spatial installation: The Courtyard, in the Afternoon
Opening: Wednesday 21 May · 4:00–6:00 PM (presentation at 5:00 PM)
Opening hours: Wed–Fri 12 noon–6:00 PM
Location: Riksförsäkringsanstalten, Stockholm
Photo credit: Andy Liffner
Photo credit: Andy Liffner
Interesting Times Gang – Shelf Life
A 3D-printed shelving system made from recycled seashells and biocomposites. Shelf Life transforms everyday objects into visual statements with a clear sustainability profile.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
Siri Svedborg & Adrian Bursell
The Stockholm-based duo combines craftsmanship with playfulness in the project Crayon Pine, where they draw directly on pine furniture with wax crayons, creating unique surfaces inspired by Swedish folk art.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
Diaform
A Stockholm studio that moves between sculpture and function. The new collection includes new furniture and mysterious objects – vessels with presence, form and materials that carry stories.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
MANU
The new MANU brand is introduced with the Folded Plastic series, where PET waste is given new life as folded, tactile objects. An expressive example of how used materials can be transformed into sustainable design with feeling, all produced in local micro-factories.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
Andrea Tsang x Material Light – Born/Reborn
In the collaboration EGG, ceramic artist Andrea Tsang and lighting studio Material Light present the installation ‘Born/Reborn’ – a series of poetic ceramic light objects. Delicate egg shapes and flower-like sculptures capture nature’s eternal cycle and are transformed into luminous stories of creation and rebirth.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
Fanny Schultz – Floral Collection
In her latest collection, Fanny combines the fragile beauty of wilting flowers with the weight and texture of stoneware. The works capture a moment in nature’s transition – from vibrant greenery to quiet decay. A state of stillness, muted colors, and a calm soon to be swept away by Nordic frost.
Presented at MOOD Stockholm.
Participants of this year’s Stockholm Creative Edition 2025:
Ateljé Södersvik, Enkei, Interesting Times Gang, Niklas Runesson, Siri Svedborg, Adrian Bursell, Andrea Tsang, MANU, Diaform, Kajsa Melchior, Erik Bratsberg, Fanny Schultz, Adam Olsson, Brutwork, Carl Linström, Viktor Erlandsson Studio & Studio Persia, Carl Martinsson, David Ivarsson, Desia Ava, Emma Stocklassa, Hugo Edholm, Jalkanen & Keski Pomppu, Karl Ekdahl, Studio Tooj, Karl Salmonsson, KOGL, Kunsik Choi, Lovisa Ingman, Marta Veiga, Nils Askhagen, Paul Flanders, Ragnar Brodow, Seoyoung Shin, Simon Bågstam, Truls Goldschmidt & Johanna Fosselius, Wildcrafted, Zuzana Zmatekova, Tillie Burden, Pernille Knudsen, Liselotte Ericsson, Petit Plaisir, Fika Lab Stockholm, among others.
Emma Stocklassa, Stockholm Creative Edition 2025
Practical Information, Key Locations & Opening Hours:
Festival Dates: May 21–24, 2025
Main Hub: MOOD Stockholm, Norrlandsgatan 13 (Level 1)
Festival annex: Lästmakargatan 5
Special Venue: Riksförsäkringsanstalten (designed by Sigurd Lewerentz)
Opening Hours:
MOOD Stockholm: Wed–Fri 11:00 AM–07:00 PM, Sat 11:00 AM–06:00 PM
Lästmakargatan: Wed–Fri 12:00 PM–06:00 PM,
Sat 11:00 AM–05:00 PM
Riksförsäkringsanstalten: Wed–Fri 12:00 PM–06:00 PM
The full program, including addresses and opening hours for all other exhibitors, is available at: stockholmcreativeedition.com
Pernille Knudsen, Stockholm Creative Edition 2025
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Stockholm Creative Edition, founder & initiator, Ulrika Attar
ulrika@stockholmcreativeedition.com | +46 70 377 66 03
For the complete exhibitor program as well as information on addresses and opening hours:
https://stockholmcreativeedition.com/programme/
About Stockholm Creative Edition
Stockholm Creative Edition is an independent design week where Stockholm is the backdrop for a new kind of design festival showcasing the best of Nordic furniture, lighting, art and crafts. Stockholm Creative Edition was founded in 2021 by Ulrika & Philippe Attar from the creative studio Atmosfär by Attar.
SCE 2025 highlights a number of emerging design initiatives. With Stockholm as a backdrop, progressive and local design initiatives in furniture, lighting, arts and crafts and much more will be showcased in showrooms and pop-up spaces.
Learn more at:www.stockholmcreativeedition.com
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