History
Design House Stockholm was founded in 1992 by Anders Färdig, who had previous owned the brands Höganäs and Boda Nova. Originally, Design House Stockholm worked only with product development for other brands. In 1997 the company founded its own product collection, based on the ideas of independent designers. The company had a major hit with the first product entering the collection - Harri Koskinen’s Block Lamp designed in 1996 - which still remains among its best selling products, and have won several awards. Design House Stockholm has distinguished itself as a publisher of design rather than an average producer, in the same way publishing houses work with authors: rather than selecting designers to design a specific product, Design House Stockholm let designers present their personal ideas, of which some are selected for production. The company’s CEO Anders Färdig says Design House Stockholm’s goal is to be a mirror of the best of Scandinavian design today; and that the term Scandinavian refers to a philosophic and aesthetic perspective, rather than geography. The company is represented in MoMA’s permanent collection by Harri Koskinen’s Block Lamp since 2000, and Timo Sarpaneva’s Timo Glass.
In 2009 H&M head of design Margareta van den Bosch joined Design House Stockholm’s board of directors, and Design House Stockholm launched it first Atelier collection, limited studio editions sold only in DHS’ own stores: Orb - a couture collection by Anna Bonnevier.
In 2011, Design House Stockholm opened the glassware studio Vet Hut, a small scale glassworks focused on producing high quality glass by designers like Erik Höglund, Timo Sarpaneva, and Signe Persson-Melin.
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