The Skandium Journal

Tapio Wirkkala - The Soul of Finland

Born in Hanko, 1915-1985, a costal town in Southern Finland, Tapio Wirkkala is known as the versatile genius of design and no one yet has surpassed his influential and wide...

Strawberry Fields Forever - enjoy a lush Swedish summer cake, now at the best of strawberry times

The recipe 1/ The custard (You can do this in advance, even the day before. It needs to be completely cold before you use it). Throw into a medium pot...

Yajibela – baskets for life from Burkina Faso

It all started, trying to find a way to help women in Burkina Faso to find a means to make a living for themselves and their families. Their tradition is...

The Finn Juhl Chamber

Danish Modern for the twenty-first century Danish furniture manufacturer Onecollection have been working hard to reissue the original Finn Juhl chairs and develop new chairs and tables for the...

Fabriken Furillen, factory Gotland Sweden

Situated on the northern tip of Gotland is the peninsula of Furillen. Amongst the wild beaches and dense forests is the very impressive factory conversion, Fabriken Furillen. Once a former...

Meeting breathtaking beauty for everyday life

Holding a plate in one's hand, its form, texture, and ease of use naturally elicits a smile, this is WASARA, this is the art of living, designed by artist Shinichiro...

Mari Johanna Isopahkala - Skandium London

Mari Johanna Isopahkala (1978) Master of Arts No Jaa light Mari Isopahkala is a Helsinki based freelancer designer with a wide product portfolio, who moves freely between different disciplines from...

Stool 60 turns 80

From Nao Tamura: "Rings- Contained within a single tree is its unabridged chronicle. Year by year, never skipping a beat, it records its history slowly. Some lines speak of seasons...

Dziythandizeni Trust, Zambia

‘Zanimals’ is a project that has been established in order to create a production line of small soft animal toys resulting in an income for the Dzithandizeni Trust. The Dzithandizeni...

FESTIVAL

FIRST EDITION OF NORDIC FILM FESTIVAL IN LONDON FULL PROGRAM ANNOUNCED 30th November – 5th December 2012 Riverside Studios, Ciné lumière, Prince Charles Cinema Nordic Film Festival have announced its...

Nordisk Køkken at Skandium

At the cost of North Jutland in Denmark, close to the water, wind and sand, Anders and Christian Porsmose Larsen, two enthusiastic foodie brothers founded Nordisk Køkken. A production plant...

Who is Julia

Julia Noni‘s cinematic fashion photographs are just as much about the fashion as they are about the setting. Whether against a cityscape or landscape the lighting beckons both an epoch...

ANNA & CHANDRA – FOLKFORM

Since forming the Folkform studio in 2005, the Swedish duo of Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell has steadily developed a reputation across the Scandinavian design scene and beyond. Their relationship...

Mabeo Furniture

Without craftsmanship, design is meaningless. Before we enjoyed the elusive birth of the designer, the craftsman was both designer and maker, executor. Craft is celebrating a come back world wide,...

Fritz Hansen hooks up with Jamie Oliver in Jamie's Big Vision

Good food quality sets the base for a balanced life. Good food is like good, supportive interior and well planned cities, it is about carefully sourced and harvested materials which...

Inachus by Sanitov Studio

This beautiful vessel is currently moored at St Katherine Docks as part of the offical Danish Showcase for the Olympics. Named by 'Inachus' and designed by Sanitov Studio, this floating...

Finn Juhl's Trusteeship Chamber - United Nations Building, New York

Housed in the UN Headquarters in New York , the Trusteeship Council Chamber, is one of the most frequently used meeting facilities in the UN compound. The chamber was designed...

Claesson Koivisto Rune book by Gabor Palotai for Skandium receives Red Dot design award!

We are delighted, this fat little publication has received the prestigious Red Dot design award. It came as a happy surprise to all of us, hurray! This small, compact little...

PK 4x20 KURIØSITET *

London, 12th June 2012 Skandium is proud to present a unique opportunity to acquire four extraordinary furniture pieces in never before produced versions by one of the greatest masters of...

A Creationist

At a time when buildings are increasingly being designed for profit and efficiency rather than human happiness, Ilse Crawford stresses the need for a more humanist approach to architecture and...

Get Real - equal rights for design

So, what’s the big fuss about fakes again? By Michelle Ogundehin, editor Elle Decoration UK Everything you wanted to know about our Equal Rights for Design campaign, based on the...

Flair magazine

Loving Flair, the ultimate magazine; bold, adventurous, short lived, never forgotten……… Fleur Fenton Cowles (January 20, 1908 – June 5, 2009) founded the amazingly imaginative, versatile, innovative Flair magazine in...

Bossa Nova

Bossa nova is a well-known style of Brazilian music developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s. The phrase bossa nova means literally "New Trend". A lyrical fusion of Samba...

Odeur De Sainteté

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. And your world is sweeter, sensuous, adventurous, peaceful, uplifting, making you fly like an eagle, sailing through silky soft skies…… Odeur...

Celebrating St.Catherine's College

Arne Jacobsen 1902-1971 architect of St. Catherine's College Oxford 1959-1964 Saturday 5th of May 2012 Skandium, Fritz Hansen, Spacecraft, Living Etc. celebrated together with 200 guests St Catherine’s first half...

Design by Katri

Design by Katri is a young, upcoming Finnish fashion label defined by timeless elegance and a strong presence in contemporary fashion. Katri Niskanen, the young talented woman behind the label, creates...

HEL YES!

A bit of Helsinki, World Design Capital 2012, and its vibrant design scene is coming to Stockholm. Finnish experimental social gathering HEL YES! will perform in Eric Ericsonhallen February 7-11. ...

Hot travel destination 2012: Dalarna, Sweden.

Here on the blog we haver already noticed Helsinki making it to the second place in The New York Times' list of must-go-destinations 2012. Destination number 44 on the very same list is the region Dalarna...

Helsinki number two in the New York Times " The 45 Places to Go in 2012" list.

Helsinki is placed number two in New York Times “the 45 Places to Go in 2012” list, http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/travel/45-places-to-go-in-2012.html?pagewanted=all, published earlier this month. Panama, Helsinki and Myanmar are topping the list...

Treehotel

Can a hotel be up in the trees? Any tree house loving kid would answer a ringing YES! to that question. But why should tree houses be part of childhood...