Design Stories

Nordic design is full of design icons that excel in their uniqueness and quality. Above all, however, these are works with a rich history. Read about the life and work of important designers and learn about the stories behind your favourite pieces of furniture, lighting or accessories.

  • Focus on hi-tech: cool, raw design

    Focus on hi-tech: cool, raw design

    22.05.
    2025     Do you like it when everything fits to a hundredth of a millimetre, when the design is proudly acknowledged? Do you love precise technical details and the cool aesthetics of metal? Then you are undoubtedly a lover of hi-tech style. Read more

  • Mid-century modern: A style that has stood the test of time

    Mid-century modern: A style that has stood the test of time

    29.04.
    2025     Mid-century modern or 1950s modern is a design style that was born in the mid-20th century and remains synonymous with timeless elegance, functionality, quality craftsmanship and aesthetic harmony between man and his environment. Read more

  • Japandi style: The Zen tone of Scandinavian design

    Japandi style: The Zen tone of Scandinavian design

    21.01.
    2025     A significant tone of Scandinavian design is the japandi style. The harmonious fusion of Scandinavian minimalism and Japanese attention to detail creates the zen-like world we're taking you to today. Read more

  • Mere Bowls: the story behind simple centerpiece

    Mere Bowls: the story behind simple centerpiece

    08.02.
    2024     What underlies a design that aligns simplicity with sophistication in a well-balanced ratio? Join us at the Helsinki studio of Sally Luhtasela and Wesley Walters to delve into the creative process behind Muuto’s Mere Bowls. Read more

  • Hans Christian Andersen Hus: Scandinavian design and Japanese Zen

    Hans Christian Andersen Hus: Scandinavian design and Japanese Zen

    15.01.
    2024     Premium design often allows architects to complete the desired intention they want to embed in their buildings. For example, the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense, designed by Kengo Kuma, features Fritz Hansen and Artek furniture. When the choice is right, as it was here, the design pieces can enhance the architecture. Read more

  • Tense: the story of a lamp designed for contemporary living

    Tense: the story of a lamp designed for contemporary living

    25.08.
    2023     Suspended in the room, it looks like a floating cloud, light and unmissable. But this is by no means the only benefit of the Tense Lamp from New Works. From the initial idea to the successful collection of several types of luminaires, the following lines will tell you more about the journey of Panter & Tourron’s design. Read more

  • What effect does design have on us? Muuto draws on neuroaesthetics

    What effect does design have on us? Muuto draws on neuroaesthetics

    14.08.
    2023     We spend most of our daily lives indoors. For much of modernism and the styles that followed, interior design was all about function, which Scandinavian modernism dealt with in its own way early on. Primarily through the use of wood and an attempt to evoke a calm and warm feeling. Empathetic designers like Alvar Aalto were guided primarily by intuition at the time, but today his correct perceptions are also backed up by science. With its findings, the field called neuroaesthetics is likely […] Read more

  • 3 Days of Design 2023: join us as we explore the best of Danish design

    3 Days of Design 2023: join us as we explore the best of Danish design

    13.06.
    2023     With our DesignVille team, we couldn't miss one of the most anticipated events in the design world, the 3 Days of Design. Every year, the festival offers the opportunity to explore showrooms of leading and up-and-coming Scandinavian brands across Copenhagen. Let's join us as we explore the exhibitions by Muuto, Normann Copenhagen, HAY and many others. Read more

  • Buy less, choose well. Thank you, Vivienne Westwood

    Buy less, choose well. Thank you, Vivienne Westwood

    10.01.
    2023     A few days before last year ended, designer and visionary Vivienne Westwood left the world. She is most often associated with a revolutionary influence on the clothing scene that dates back to the 1970s. However, her work and continuing legacy were much larger. As you may have noticed, Westwood's all-encompassing motto "Buy less, choose well" has accompanied DesignVille from the very beginning. So let's remind ourselves of the inspirational values that certainly don't lose their validity […] Read more

  • Design and art under one roof

    Design and art under one roof

    23.09.
    2022     Although we go to art galleries to see works by old masters or contemporary artists, there is often much more behind the aesthetic experience. Indeed, the impressive spaces of historic gallery buildings, carefully furnished with premium furniture, are enchanting in themselves. In the following lines, we'll introduce you to the best of them, where art meets timeless Danish design. Read more

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