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Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind

From classic Scandinavian functionality to naked men and lambs, Stockholm Design Week has something for everyone. Here's The Local's pick of the weirdest and best designs on display this year.

Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind

Stockholm Design Week is here again.

In the last several years, the Stockholm Furniture Fair has morphed from a trade fair targeting retailers and manufacturers to Stockholm Design Week, a city-wide, weeklong celebration of all things design.

Running from February 6th-12th, Stockholm Design Week has earned its place in the international design circuit along with larger European capitals such as London and Milan.

Click here to see 7 Swedish designs (as well as one from Norway and one from Finland) that will blow your mind

The traditional furniture fair (February 7th-11th) is still located at Stockholm International Fairs (Stockholmsmässan) in the Stockholm suburb of Älvsjö. The fair is open for trade visitors Tuesday through Friday, and open to the general public on Saturday, February 10th. Tickets can be purchased for 140 kronor ($21) at the door or through Ticnet.se.

Highlights of the fair include Greenhouse, which features the work of independent, up-and-coming designers and students, including exhibitions from several Scandinavian design school.

A new venue this year is DesignHall, which bills itself as “a new mobile exhibition platform”.

Current exhibitions include the winners of the 2012 DesigNu Award and Talking Textiles, put together by Dutch design expert Li Edelkoort.

A Finnish import that is getting a lot of attention is Hel Yes!, which brings together cuisine, design and dance into a single assault on the senses. It features performances by the Helsinki Dance Company and the menu was created by chef Antto Melasniemi.

Alternative art venue Scarlett Gallery has also teamed up with urban artist ROA, known for his crazy creatures, to present a secret exhibition on February 17th.

Stockholm has a “zero tolerance” policy on graffiti and is widely perceived to be the only city with such a stringent ban in Europe. The location of ROA’s art will remain unknown until a few days before his work is unveiled. Email [email protected] to find out where.

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Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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