Featured Designer: Muuto

While Muuto is a Danish company, its name comes from the Finnish word, “muutos,” which can be translated to mean “fresh perspective” (or change).

Muuto handpicks from the very best Nordic designers and challenges them to come up with a design that embodies the essence of Modern Scandinavian Design… something aesthetically pleasing and perfectly functional (and in keeping with Mutto’s mission… something fresh!)

Many top Scandinavian designers like, Harri Koskinen, Ole Jensen, Louise Campbell, Norway Says (among many others) have designed for Muuto and more are accepting the challenge.

They primarily design furnishings for the modern home and a few of these include…

Muuto’s Match Tea Light Holder

Muuto’s Dots Wall Hooks

Muuto’s Restore Storage Basket

If you’d like to see all the Muuto products we carry, CLICK HERE…

Glad Midsommer / Happy Midsummer

Today is one of the most anticipated days of the year for all of Scandinavia. The longest day of the year and the celebration of the light is the most celebrated day in Sweden, Norway and Denmark ever over Christmas. Scandinavians celebrate the summer solstice (the longest day of the year) with festivals full of music, dancing, lights, flowers, pickled herring, aquavit, and lovely girls running around with crowns of flowers in their hair.




According to Midsummer Festival website, “the summer solstice celebration has its roots in pre-Christian practices and is a day when the spirits of nature join the human community to rejoice in the long days of summer. Midsummer was originally a fertility festival with many customs and rituals associated with nature and with the hope for a …

There is love in the air in Stockholm!

Tomorrow, on Saturday June 19, the Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden will wed Daniel Westling, her former personal trainer, a commoner from the small village of Ockelby. Initially, the King, her father, Carl XVI Gustav, and the royal court did not approve of this relationship but Victoria, as it has turned out, is a true romantic and insisted that the boy from the little village in central Sweden was indeed her soul mate. She proved her commitment by stubbornly holding on to the love of her life for eight years until everyone finally gave in to her wishes and approved of their engagement. However, Daniel will have to settle with the title of Prince, as Victoria will not allow him to bear the King title. Go Girl!

The ceremony will …

The Amazing Story Lamp by Skar+Vidal

Norwegian industrial designers Vibeke Skar and Ida Noemi Vidal created these wonderful ceramic pendants that not only provide light, but convey the story of Norwegian traditions, the contrast between the cold weather and the warm clothing and homes. Story draws inspirations from the fact of going backwards to go forwards.

The lamps are called Story, which have been decorated with Norwegian patterns sandblasted into their unglazed porcelain finish. It’s a modern look on a very traditional pattern. It sheds new light upon traditional Norwegian knitting patterns on woolen sweaters and gives a new and softer expression to the cold hard porcelain surface.


According to the designers, here is Storys, story: Once upon a time there was a porcelain lamp called Story. Born in Norway between high mountains and deep fjords, it dreamed of lighting …