The White Stuff

All things Swedish on the appropriately name Swedishness website! Love this milk, or mjölk poster by OMM. That's one happy red cow.

Muuto - Maison Objet September 2010

Muuto showcased the silicone rubber Unfold pendant lamp by Stockholm based designer and architectures studio Form Us With Love. The duo also designed a lovely tealight candle holder called Match. Click here to see it on the designer's homepage. 

Available in grey, black, blue, purple, yellow

Each year Muuto have a competition for young designers. Petter Thörne and Anders Johnsson from Konstfack School of Design in Stockholm's winning entry is the dining table named "Keep" made from scrap wood and secured with metal bands (cutting out the need for glue) and a linoleum table top.

The "Keep" table makes a statement about wasted materials

"Outside in" flower pot by Thomas Bernstrand

Available in brown, green, grey and purple

How Swede

Trust the Swedes to have the ultimate "design" toys for kids. Swedish company Playsam was founded by Carl Zedig in 1984 and is best known for its "Streamliner" car (above). It also designed a range of toys for handicapped children during the early 1980s. It's range marries pure form with pure function.

Rocking horses, whatever - put your kid on the Rocking Rabbit

Love the little paddle at the side of this yacht, it's going to make its maiden sea voyage that little bit quicker.

Bottled wine gets canned

Are you an oenomaniac partial to a tipple on the go. Swedes Jonas Forsman and Jens Andersson have come up with a more mobile, light-weight solution than glugging straight from the bottle. Called simply, "wine can", it won the Swedish Aluminium Packaging Design Award in 2005. Via Ramos Creative

Taxi Driver

This rug collection for Asplund by Swedish design trio Claesson Koivisto Rune was inspired by none other than taxi in Tokyo.Love it but there are only 30 to buy in the whole world!
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Milky bars (or stools) are (not) on me

This "Milk" stool is courtesy of Swedish Staffan Holmn. He only commissions the best craftsmen in his native country to whittle away at his pared down-Scandi creations. Everyone did such a good job he was invited to exhibit at the up-and-coming designers display section of April's Salone - Salone Satellite. It's not made of milk though so don't embarass yourself at the show and try and eat it - you'll get a nasty (wooden) shock. Via David Report



PARKY
Look forward to perching blissfully on his new park benches. Coming soon....to a park near you! (only relevant to Swedish residents - some countries have all the fun)

It don't matter if you're black or white

Scandinavian design company Muuto have been causing a stir in the last two years injecting the minimal Scandi-aesthetic with a bit of fun. Products such as their Norway Says lacquered "Salt and Pepper mills" and
JDS Architect’s “Crushed bowls” have become stylists staples. They have just released their hotly anticipated products for 2009 - Black and white pendant lamps by Swedish designers Mats Broberg and John Ridderstråle - also available with a green cord for those who think monochrome's already over.

In black....

Or white