Stockholm Design Week 2025 captures the freewheeling spirit of design

Drawing in visitors from over 100 countries, Stockholm Design Week 2025, which took place from 3 to 9 February and once again transformed Sweden’s capital into a design playground, brought together industry leaders, design enthusiasts, and cultural visionaries to explore a colorful mix of unconventional creative philosophies. Examining the dynamic interplay between alternative materials and emerging tech resources, the occasion hosted riveting exhibitions, experimental installations, and thought-provoking dialogues.

At the heart of it all, the Stockholm Furniture Fair, held at Stockholmsmässan from 4 to 8 February, ran under the theme “Connecting the Dots” and highlighted cross-disciplinary influences on contemporary design. This year’s Guest of Honor, designer Faye Toogood showcased “Manufracture,” an intimate look at her creative process rooted in curiosity and open-mindedness. In the same manner, as the selection below demonstrates, some of the most enthralling pieces presented at this year’s edition of Stockholm Design Week all share the common thread of fearlessness. 

The X-FELT collection by BAUX x Form Us With Love

Designed in collaboration with international design studio Form Us With Love, renowned Swedish acoustics brand BAUX’s latest X-FELT collection comprises large-format, high-performance acoustic panels and tiles made from ultra-fine, high-quality polyester fibers sourced from GRS-certified PET. This unique and innovative formula eliminates the need for harmful fire-retardant treatments. Eliminating these additives significantly reduces the risk of toxic emissions during production, use, and disposal. What lies at the heart of the advanced PET fiber structure of X-FELT is a layered sandwich construction technique–the smooth, compact, and lightweight structure that is cut into panels and tiles provides a long-lasting acoustic sustainable solution. Rated Fire Class Bs.1-d0 for both wall and ceiling applications, X-FELT can be fully recycled at facilities that process PET or through BAUX’s take-back BAUX Circle Programme.

Drawing inspiration from the minimalism, mindfulness, and distinct harmony of Japanese Zen Gardens, each one of the riveting assortment of precision-cut patterns can be mixed and matched to create unique rhythms of wandering lines from walls to ceilings. The X-FELT collection also comes with a rich palette of solid colors and contrasting duo colors to choose from. The lightweight and large-format panels and tiles for walls and ceilings allow for the creation of cohesive yet visually striking superior sound-absorbing installations in larger spaces.

Circulus by Mario Ferrarini x OFFECCT

Aptly described as the “never-ending sofa”, Circulus challenges sustainable public seating with its elegance, superb adaptability, and unmatched durability. Featuring a gripping visual identity by renowned Italian designer Mario Ferrarini, OFFECCT’s new sofa is highly versatile, with high and low back options, numerous configuration possibilities, a rich range of 74 frame colors, and a multitude of fabrics and upholstery colors to choose from. With its frame made of durable steel and recycled aluminum, Circulus’s unique composition allows for quick and easy replacement of its upholstery–without the need for glue, staples, or special tools of any kind. 

Its name Latin for circle, Circulus is made from high-quality, durable materials. The sofa features 98% recycled content in its molded parts and 20% in its sheets—a metal with virtually endless life in the recycling chain—and vital components in steel, containing 20% recycled material. This allows for Circulus to be fully recycled when no longer in use.

Cuboid by Kord 

Inspired by Scandinavian design traditions, Swedish design brand Kord aims to transform the presence and understanding of everyday objects by combining groundbreaking functionality with sophisticated, timeless design. Making their debut during Stockholm Design Week 2025, Kord’s Cuboid and Cuboid+ are the world’s smallest power strips featuring three to four outlets, a two-meter cable, and, in the case of Cuboid+, USB-C ports. With their extensive backgrounds in business development, design, and product development, David Lindell and Gustav Rosén, Kord’s founders, are led by a shared desire to challenge expectations and naturally integrate highly functional objects into interior spaces.

The outcome of a holistic understanding of the limits of geometry, technical constraints, functionality, and aesthetics, the asymmetric placement of the outlets found within Cuboid gives the product a playful presence. The balance found between form and function renders clarity and purpose to Cuboid’s identity. Sustainability is also a central pillar of Kord’s philosophy. Cuboid is made from 50 per cent recycled materials, one of the highest levels in the industry for this type of product. By combining innovative design with sustainable solutions, Kord aims to create products that not only stand the test of time but also contribute to more conscious consumption and a reduced overall environmental impact.

Using built-in magnets, Cuboid seamlessly integrates with Hidy, a smart and elegant cable management solution in the form of a miniature screen wall made of powder-coated, recycled stainless steel. The other accessory, the Cumulus Case, acts as a shell that transforms the Cuboid into a sculptural object. By combining advanced technology with sophisticated design, these accessories further elevate Cuboid from a practical tool to a stylish interior statement piece. Looking ahead, Kord is working towards the development of an entire ecosystem of products that offers consumers solutions without compromising aesthetic appeal.

Basking by Thomas Bernstrand x Nola  

With its sleek and refined exterior and meticulously crafted interior, Basking is a sun lounger with a freestanding footrest designed by celebrated designer Thomas Bernstrand. The sun sofa offers unmatched comfort and features a robust construction supported by smooth aluminum sides combined with warm wooden slats. With its even, hard-wearing colored surface, Basking is crafted using Nola’s high-quality, sustainable, domestically-produced pine.

At the helm of his eponymous Stockholm design studio, Thomas Bernstrand has participated in a number of design and art exhibitions around the world including MoMA in New York, and Colette in Paris. He has received several awards for his work, including Excellent Swedish Form and Winner of the Good Design Award 2012 for Nolastolen Share. As Nola’s frequent collaborator, Bernstrand has designed a large number of products and furniture series and shaped several special projects for the brand over the years.

Pico by Andreas Engesvik x Fogia 

Designed by Andreas Engesvik for Fogia, the beauty of the new Pico lounge chair lies in the juxtapositions it fosters: light yet stable, passionate yet flexible. Informal, cozy, and surprisingly light, Pico is a versatile and easily manageable furniture piece that doesn’t require much space and renders superb comfort. The piece creates the illusion that it merely consists of two inviting cushions floating at a comfortable sitting height. The thinness of the frame is intended not only to give Pico a singular presence but to also radically lower its weight. Pico weighs just 12.3 kilos–you can simply place and move it at any given moment. 

Fogia, a furniture maker that blends classic materials with masterful craftsmanship, Pico is crafted in the company’s factory by expert craftsmen who build pieces of furniture that withstand long and heavy use. Rich in small yet meaningful details, Pico’s armrests are reminiscent of the wrapped handlebars of sleek racing bikes–or the steering wheels of old sports cars. Just as powerfully, its tubular steel frame is a nod to Bauhaus and mid-century Scandinavian design.

Over the years, Engesvik has designed many furniture pieces for Fogia, including Bollo and Tiki, of which Fogia will be launching new iterations featuring frames of brushed and polished stainless steel later this year.

The Bookshelf by Les Objet Raymond Raymond

The centerpiece of Les Objet Raymond Raymond’s Rounded Edges SS25 collection, The Modular Bookshelf is a shelving unit that can shape itself according to any given space. Featuring a console, side tables, and a table lamp as well, the new collection of objects is a follow-up to LESORR’s FW23 iteration of the Rounded Edges Collection and honors aluminum’s rawness. Rooted in flexibility, the grid system is superbly customizable and characterized by its bold spirit.

A design studio founded in 2023 by David Raymond, Les Objets Raymond Raymond offers a rich variety of gripping items. The LESORR catalog ranges from collectible objects to commercial products and custom creations. All of the brand’s objects fuse raw materials with an aesthetic that maximizes both the physical and graphic identity and presence of the matters used. 

Vior Collection by NJRD

Conceptualized by design studio Bernadotte & Kylberg, Vior, NJRD’s debut furniture collection, celebrates the beauty of everyday life. Named after the Old Norse word for “wood,” the tactfully designed pieces that make up the Vior collection evoke a welcoming ambiance and are crafted to spark conversation and create cherished moments with loved ones. With its inviting, soft, organic shapes, the assortment features a dining table, chairs, and a kitchen sofa. 

A collaboration between the Bernadotte & Kylberg design studio and Nordic Nest, NJRD, launched in 2020, is rooted in a passion for Nordic nature and light and a strong conviction that good design is about functional simplicity in everything–from the choice of materials to objects’ shape and color. With its diverse portfolio spanning a rich range of design objects and concepts crafted for Scandinavian and international brands–from beds, stools, glassware, tableware, and vases to candle holders, eyewear, and jackets–the Bernadotte & Kylberg design studio was founded in 2012 by Carl Philip Bernadotte and Oscar Kylber. Driven by its razor-sharp focus on maximum user benefit and premium aesthetic quality, the studio crafts innovative designs that last for generations.

Sustainable soundscapes by Abstracta x Verk

In Abstracta x Verk, a riveting assortment of premium quality, sound-absorbing, framed acoustic panels is blanketed by textile designs by renowned designer and ceramicist Ingegerd Råman. A multi-tiered collaboration, Verk has developed a new wool fabric entitled “V.IR” which has been used for the objects that make up the new collection. The material is made from wool that would otherwise have gone to waste. The wool comes exclusively from Swedish sheep and is washed, spun, and woven in Sweden which significantly reduces overall environmental impact.

Suitable for a wide variety of spaces and environments such as restaurants, hotel lobbies, open-plan offices, co-working spaces, learning environments, and home offices, the sophisticated panels have a high sound-absorbing capacity and effectively absorb unpleasant noise. The superbly effective Swedish-produced sound-absorbing core is made from textile waste and polyester made from recycled PET bottles. Together with their well-crafted oak minimalist frames, the wool fabric enhances both the tactile feel and the refined visual identity of the panels.

The unmatched weaving techniques by Råman create engaging patterns and playful dynamics in the palette, giving all the pieces of the collection a vibrant yet harmonious feel. No thicker than 45 millimeters, the acoustic panels are available in three sizes: 1000 mm x 1400 mm, 700 mm x 1000 mm, and 500 mm x 700 mm, and are framed in untreated Swedish oak.

As the Swedish capital became a crucible of creativity, Stockholm Design Week 2025 once again solidified its status as one of the leading platforms for design and the forces shaping the future of interiors.