Let’s take a look at the world’s good homes, different decoration styles
When speaking of Nordic style, is your first reaction IKEA? In fact, there are some other home furnishing brands from northern Europe, which represent the highest level of Nordic design. The simple lines do not have a unique sense of design, with excellent texture and powerful functions, decorating your home like a work of art.
Scandinavian design emerged in the early 1920s, flourishing in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s, Danish designers in the 1950s and 1960s, and Finland in the 1960s. Scandinavian design has always made people love it with its modernist appearance and powerful functionality. Today, I have compiled 35 Nordic classic and influential brands to show you the modern Nordic design.
1/ Mutto:
The furniture brand “MUUTO” from Denmark comes from the Finnish word “muutos”, which means change and a new perspective. MUUTO invited people from all over Scandinavia in the northwest corner of Europe to take the lead in the design. Based on the concise Nordic lines, different colors were used to warm up the originally cold Nordic furniture.
The Danish home furnishing brand MUUTO was co-founded in 2006 by young designers Peter Bonnen and Kristian Byrge. Although it is still very young, the brand is already an internationally renowned Nordic style design firm. Its furniture, lamps and accessories series available in 700 quality stores.
2.HAY /hay.dk
One of the partners of HAY, a new Danish home furnishing brand, also founded the Danish clothing group BESTSELLER. HAY creates innovative designs based on Nordic craftsmanship aesthetics, using modern and concise outlines and rich colors to create high-quality products that are easy to match and reasonably priced. It is a good thing that everyone can afford. Many designs are collected by the Center for Contemporary Art in New York and the Pompidou Museum in Paris.
3.&tradition / andtradition.com
&tradition is the new design brand of Danish brand Unique Copenhagen after changing its name in 2010. Many of the products are master works of the original brand with a long history, so they are very classic and durable. &tradition combines traditional Scandinavian design concepts with modern exquisite craftsmanship, pursuing a timeless beauty and high quality separated from tradition and reform.
4.Carl Hansen&Son / carlhansen.com
Carl Hansen & Son is one of Denmark’s oldest furniture manufacturers, founded in 1908 and headquartered in Aarup, Denmark. Carl Hansen & Son’s attention to detail and passion for handcrafted craftsmanship, classic furniture such as Hans J. Wegner’s solid wood chair and Triangle Shell chair are very famous.
5.Erik Jørgensen
Erik Jørgensen was founded in Denmark in 1954 by saddle maker and upholsterer Erik Jørgensen. Among them, after the successful introduction of the Corona chair in 1964, which established Erik Jørgensen’s industry status, Hans J. Wegner took out his own design of the 1960 Ox Chair in 1988 and invited Erik Jørgensen to develop it. A year later, the Bull Chair made a big splash when it appeared in Milan.
6.Fredericia / fredericia.com
The 1950s were the golden age of modern Scandinavian furniture, and Andreas Graversen jumped at the right opportunity to buy Fredericia, which was founded in the 1910s on the verge of collapse, and persuaded the famous Danish furniture designer Borge Mogensen to join the company, making it Denmark in a short time. One of the most popular furniture manufacturers.
Spanish dining chair it’s one of the famous piece of the Fredeicia as below, it’s made of saddle leather and solid ashwood frame,both armless and armrest chair available, Spanish lounge chair it’s also avaialble:
7.Fritz Hansen / fritzhansen.com/en
Fritz Hansen, a Danish classic furniture brand founded in 1872, is loved and respected by design lovers around the world for its timeless, simple and restrained Scandinavian design style. Although the main designers of Fritz Hansen, Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm have passed away, some of their design works, including the famous Ant Chair, Swan chair, Egg Chair, Chair 7, and PK8 Seat are very famous.
8.Gubi / gubi.com
The Danish furniture fair design company with more than 40 years of design experience likes to find inspiration from things that are overlooked by the outside world, and discover the hidden features in the unobtrusive objects. Gubi feels very modern, and at a closer look, there are many shadows of classic products and natural fusion.
9.Louis Poulsen / louispoulsen.com
Louis Poulsen is an international lighting brand from Denmark, established in 1874. In Copenhagen, whether it is an office building or a residential building, Louis Poulsen lamps can be seen. When you walk into Louis Poulsen’s canal-side showroom headquarters, the staff will proudly tell you: “Copenhagen is our biggest showroom.”
10.Menu / menu.as
Menu is a family-owned design company from Denmark founded in 1979. It has been engaged in the design and production of stainless steel products for a long time. Regarding Menu, we often call it “soft minimalism”. A simple geometric purity, a subtle, natural authenticity, a calm and tranquility.
11.Normann Copenhagen / normanncopenhagen.com
Normann Copenhagen was co-founded in 1999 by designers Jan Anderson and Poul madsen. The spirit of this brand is to “challenge traditional design” and make bold breakthroughs in the use of colors and materials. After entering the Chinese market, Block trolleys, Geo kettles, red wine glass series, etc. have become Internet celebrity products.
Below era lounge chair with stainless steel or swivel base both it’s the Normann Copenhagen’s maesterpiece.
