Dezeen LIVE: Stockholm Design Week 2025
The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital (3-9 February) . Updated throughout the day with exclusive previews of products, installations and events. 11.45am – milan lends a hand Stockholm has long lacked an equivalent to Milan's legendary Bar Basso – an après-furniture fair watering hole where designers The post Dezeen LIVE: Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.
The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital (3-9 February) . Updated throughout the day with exclusive previews of products, installations and events.
11.45am – milan lends a hand
Stockholm has long lacked an equivalent to Milan's legendary Bar Basso – an après-furniture fair watering hole where designers and industry insider can gather for a negroni sbagliato or three.
But this year, Stockholm Design Week kicked off with a cocktail evening at the Nobis Hotel's Guldbaren, organised in collaboration with Basso's very own Maurizio Stocchetto, who flew in from Italy for the occasion.
The golden mirror-panelled bar is hoping to establish itself as the festival's go-to place to see and be seen – Jennifer Hahn
11.30am – is AI too good?
Faye Toogood is now on the main stage of Stockholm Furniture Fair for the keynote talk, with Dezeen's deputy editor Cajsa Carlson.
Toogood asks "surely AI can design an AI-Faye Toogood chair better than Faye Toogood?"
"If we don't hold onto craftsmanship, we will lose it," she adds. "The role of a designer is to connect more to humanity and the human action of working with our hands." – Max Fraser
This talk is part of Design Disruptors: Dezeen talks at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025.
Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide ›
Carlson interviewed Toogood ahead of this year's event – check it out below.
11.15am – swedish models!
Local office Note Design Studio is showing its debut architecture project at its city showroom, which is set within a former bank and still features an old telephone booth and the original vault – now used as a (very) secure meeting room.
The project is Villa Ottsjö, a timber-clad house close to Åre, northern Sweden. Positioned on a hilly site, the home is made up of three identical volumes with pitched roofs.
Interlinked but offset from each other, the buildings were arranged to maximise windows and make the most of the rural setting.
"It was to follow the height curves better, but also it means that each volume gets a small glimpse of the mountains," architect Jesper Mellgren told Dezeen.
Villa Ottsjö is Note Design Studio's first foray into architecture and more projects are in the works – Jane Englefield
11.00am – embarrassing things
Guest of honour Faye Toogood has taken over the entrance hall of the Stockholm Furniture Fair with an installation titled Manufracture, aiming to "demystify the process of designing and making".
"This is an installation where I've emptied my archive," she told journalists. "It's almost a live sketchbook. It's showing things that I'm embarrassed about."
"It's showing things that never went into production," she added. "There is a resin table in the corner, which is a material I wouldn't choose today." – Jennifer Hahn
Find out more about Stockholm Furniture Fair on Dezeen Events Guide ›
10.30am – frank in the loom
The beloved Swedish heritage brand Svenkst Tenn, 140 years after the birth of designer and longtime collaborator Frank Josef, is showing an in-store exhibition as an homage to Josef.
Titled Frank in the Loom, the show features a collection of handwoven rag rugs crafted from repurposed textiles originally designed by Josef, combined with Svenskt Tenn's signature linen – Jane Englefield
10.15am – dezeen dispatch
On the eve of Stockholm Design Week, Dezeen hosted a welcome dinner at the National Museum.
Staged in partnership with Nordic Nest, the dinner took place in the grand environs of the museum's Södra Ljusgården and brought together international journalists and Stockholm's design community.
Throughout the evening, representatives from Nordic brands Iittala, Fritz Hansen, Audo Copenhagen, Gärsnäs and Louis Poulsen introduced new products to the audience.
The evening culminated in the unveiling of Dezeen's new print publication, Dezeen Dispatch.
Guests keenly perused their copies, including Claesson Koivisto Rune's Eero Koivisto who gave it a solid thumbs up – Max Fraser
10:00am – hej Stockholm!
Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, editor-at-large Amy Frearson, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, design editor Jennifer Hahn, social editor Clara Finnigan and design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield are on the ground in Stockholm reporting from Stockholm Design Week (SDW).
Dezeen is hosting a series of events in the city this year, including our Design Disruptors talks, the Dezeen Awards 2025 launch party and an event celebrating the first-ever Dezeen newspaper (which launched last night – more to follow soon!).
Dezeen Events Guide has created an SDW guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.
As the 2025 event gets under way, take a look at ten unmissable exhibitions and installations – including Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025, a pop-up by Form Us With Love and an exhibition by David Taylor at Bukowskis auction house.
See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
All times are Stockholm time.
The lead image is by Jane Englefield.
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