... blogs and internet sites to check out
This list is about informative, useful or just well-designed internet sites about Nordic design and architecture - it is not trying to be a definitive list of all designers, architects or companies that may have an on-line site but is a starting point for inspiration.
These are sites I look at regularly and by keeping it short, I hope to be able to maintain the list so that it is up to date and links continue to work.
Scandinavian design blogs:
Bungalow5 was started by Allan Torp in 2010 and focuses on Danish design but covers wider aspects of design for the home
DANISH™ – an online magazine from Danish Design and Architecture Initiative. Regular posts about events and new works from designers and architects in Denmark. Well-designed site with more substance and more well-informed opinions than most blogs and building up to be the go-to on-line site for information about designers and design companies.
Nytt Rom - the site for the Norwegian design magazine. For me, for its clear content and a great layout, Nytt Rom is the best of the design magazines from Scandinavia
general design sites:
Remodelista - a general design site but with a huge amount of material - readers can focus their search by using categories and tabs or by typing a query for Danish furniture, for instance, or the name of a designer.
architects + design studios:
Claesson Kovisto Rune architectural partnership formed in Stockholm in 1995 but now has a multi-disiplinary team working on product design and furniture. Deceptively simple, almost stark web site but well worth exploring
Henning Larsen Architects Copenhagen
C F Møller - a major architectural partnership
Norm architects and designers Copenhagen. Probably the best site to see Danish minimalism at its best ... one apartment is even described as having a monastic simplicity
makers + manufacturers:
Artek have an extensive site and they have a separate site for 2nd Cycle
Carl Hansen Danish furniture
Fritz Hansen Danish furniture
Iittala official site has the current catalogue with useful information about designers
Norrgavel - Swedish furniture and interior company - now with a store in Oslo
OneCollection have the licence to produce furniture designed by Finn Juhl
Louis Poulsen is a major Danish company for lighting
Secto Design Oy is the Finnish company who make birch lampshades
Normann Journal ... the blog for normann of Copenhagen - more like a magazine than a company site - and that is a compliment and not a criticism
Swedese Swedish furniture producer. Good profiles for the designers they work with
design stores:
Asplund is a manufacturer with a design store in Stockholm
Illums Bolighus is the major furniture and design store in Copenhagen
Mjölk have a design gallery in Toronto but also a significant on-line store. The separate Mjölk journal follows projects and travels and explains their interests in Scandinavian and Japanese design.
Paustian - the design store in the north harbour in Copenhagen
Skandium opened their first shop in London in 1999
Svenskt Tenn is the well-established design store in Stockholm
museums + galleries:
Danish open air museum Lyngby
Designmuseum Danmark Copenhagen
Design Museum Helsinki
Form Design Center Mälmo
National Museum Oslo with information about the Museum of Design and the Museum of Architecture
Nordiska Museet Stockholm
antique dealers and small private galleries:
Dansk Møbelkunst - for information about their galleries in Copenhagen and Paris. They publish catalogues and a number of keys books on Danish furniture.
LOKAL a small but amazing gallery in Helsinki but also with an on-line store - see my post on this gallery
