are also featuring more Scandinavian furniture pieces. Wright has added to its programme two annual sales dedicated exclusively to mid-century Scandinavian design and it brings about 500 pieces from this period to auction each year. Lounge chairs by Danish With its rich history and traditions, how will Scandinavian design evolve in the future? The New Nordic Design model proposes a little more playfulness in furniture design. NOMA cuisine celebrates locality and seasonality in the culinary experience. When we think of Scandinavian Design we tend to think mid-century – the sexy bent wood furniture of Alvar Aalto, the smooth forms of Dansk, the irresistibly groovy world of Verner Panton – and while the book does give ample space to the iconic Twelve years ago, Andrew Kevelson was looking for something new to do, and he always loved midcentury Scandinavian design. “I wanted to sell it (There’s only so much furniture your Brooklyn loft can hold without frustrating those you live with.) On May 20, leading French auction house Artcurial will offer for the first time a sale dedicated exclusively to Scandinavian design. More than one hundred pieces will be offered at auction, carefully selected with the help of the collector Aldric Speer. The Omhu Cane is ‘a walking stick with attitude’. Inspired by Scandinavian furniture, the cane features a handle with extra grip and it’s made from birch hand-finished with Livos oil, a non-toxic, plant-based finish. .
In every part of the house, Scandinavian design components mix with American furnishings “I think what is really interesting is how many Danish home accessories and furniture pieces mix great with other styles. They are like a calm, more structured functional furniture, made using natural materials and traditional craftsmanship. “Scandinavian design has been on the radar in the UK for a while,” says Christina Schmidt, co-founder of Skandium, “at first, among an initiated crowd of architects Stockholm designer Monica Förster has created wooden furniture and accessories for Bosnian company from a multidisciplinary context where Bosnian handicraft meets Scandinavian design," Förster told Dezeen. The pieces are all carved by hand from In the beginning, his output was limited to a few copies of each design, and he worked personally on all of them. He loved to mix traditional Japanese carpentry techniques with wood in its natural state. The great harmony of his furniture derives from the .