Ten unmissable exhibitions and installations at Stockholm Design Week 2025
In the leadup to Stockholm Design Week, we've compiled a list of must-see happenings around the city, including a pop-up bistro by Form Us With Love, a private gallery in a curator's home and furniture made from 300-year-old trees. Centred as always around the Stockholm Furniture Fair, this year's Stockholm Design Week (SDW) takes place The post Ten unmissable exhibitions and installations at Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.
In the leadup to Stockholm Design Week, we've compiled a list of must-see happenings around the city, including a pop-up bistro by Form Us With Love, a private gallery in a curator's home and furniture made from 300-year-old trees.
Centred as always around the Stockholm Furniture Fair, this year's Stockholm Design Week (SDW) takes place from 4 to 8 February and is set to host hundreds of designers, architects and brands.
For our full list of highlights – plus in-depth features on the state of Swedish design and emerging designers to look out for – pick up the first-ever edition of our Dezeen Dispatch magazine in SDW locations across the city.
See also Dezeen Events Guide's Stockholm Design Week 2025 guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.
Special Effects by David Taylor at Bukowskis
Self-described "errant Scottish silversmith" turned metal designer David Taylor is venturing into collectible design with his latest collection, on show at auction house Bukowskis.
The pieces are still made from his signature bent aluminium pipes, as seen in his Dezeen Award-winning Knuckle lights.
But in this case, the pipes were contorted into more ambitious furniture pieces including a chair, bench and cabinet, as well as a modern take on a grandfather clock.
Bukowskis, Berzelii Park 1
Paola Bjäringer, founder of design collective Misschiefs, has turned her apartment in downtown Stockholm into a private gallery for the duration of SDW.
On show is Bjäringer's own private collection – including works by designers Mathieu Lehanneur and Matali Crasset – alongside newly commissioned pieces by six Swedish designers on the theme of upcycling.
Highlights include the Craft Punk Vases by Kajsa Willner – whose solo show Associations is taking over Stockholm Modern – reclaimed wooden armchair by Sara Szyber and cushions disguised as packets of Aspirin and chewing gum by Anna Nordström (above).
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Testing Grounds Bistro by Form Us With Love
Design studio Form Us With Love is reviving the Testing Grounds pop-up at its waterfront space in Kungsholmen. This year, the studio has been transformed into a "casual and convivial" place to meet, eat and discuss.
Called Bistro, the restaurant, bar and cafe-style pop-up features furniture from an ongoing collaboration with Danish brand +Halle and a first-time modular strip lighting project designed in collaboration with Swedish lighting manufacturer Blond (above).
Form Us With Love, Norr Mälarstrand 58
Locals' favourite listening bar Hosoi has recruited a roster of Stockholm designers to create custom objects for its space in buzzy Slakthusområdet.
Among the pieces unveiled for SDW are psychedelic terrazzo tables with donated second-hand legs by Gustav Winsth (above), bar stools by Fredrik Paulsen's Joy Objects, textile hangings by My Zachrisson and bar tables made from waste wood by Lars Oscar Wall.
Hosoi, Styckmästargatan 5
Finnish designer Mari Koppanen's exhibition explores contemporary uses for amadou – a suede-like leather alternative that's derived from fungus instead of animals.
Koppanen has created a range of modern design objects from the material, traditionally used as a fire starter and folk medicine, which was found on the 5,300-year-old Ötzi mummy in the Tyrolean Alps.
Nordiska museet, Djurgårdsvägen 6-16
The King's Hat by Nick Ross and Contem
Stockholm studio Contem has collaborated with local designer Nick Ross to create seven limited-edition pieces, using nothing but the pruned branches of 300-year-old linden trees from Kunghatt island.
Planted by King Frederick I of Sweden in the early 1700s, the trees remain to this day while the furniture is on show a mere boat ride away at Public Service Gallery in Östermalm.
Public Service Gallery, Storgatan 1
Food is on the agenda at art and design school Konstfack, which is hosting a series of exhibitions under the theme "designing futures and tasting the past".
Industrial design students are showcasing playful products for eating and cooking, created in collaboration with young people with special needs, while students from the school's Design Ecologies graduate programme have imagined sustainable food systems of the future (above).
Elsewhere in the city, Sergels Torg has been taken over by four dramatic textile works from Konstfack industrial and textile design students.
Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14
Frank in the Loom by Svenskt Tenn
Beloved interiors store Svenskt Tenn is entering its second century with an exhibition of upcycled rugs crafted from salvaged textiles originally designed by modernist Austrian architect Josef Frank.
Presented in collaboration with local manufacturer Vandra Rugs, the show spotlights Frank's most iconic patterns – from the giant leaves and butterflies that characterise his Delhi print to his colourful Brazil textile – and explores the longstanding art of weaving.
Svenskt Tenn, Strandvägen 5
Axel Wannberg and Sami Kallio at Nordiska Galleriet
Designers Axel Wannberg and Sami Kallio are launching new products at retailer Nordiska Galleriet this SDW.
Wannberg is presenting a metal version of his Lamp 53, characterised by the 53-degree angle from which it takes its name. Kallio, meanwhile, is showcasing his Empire Chair, which references 1920s architecture (top and above).
Nordiska Galleriet is also showing objects by design studio Front made "in collaboration with AI" as well as the new Geometry glassware collection by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Orrefors.
Nordiska Galleriet, Nybrogatan 11
Scandinavia's largest furniture fair is returning for 2025 with special exhibitions from Alexander Lervik and architecture firm Olsson Lyckefors Arkitektur, an entrance hall installation from guest of honour Faye Toogood (above) and not one but three different design bars for daytime drinking, commissioned especially for the occasion.
Alongside product launches from big brands including Flokk, Blå Station and Fogia, the fair is shining a spotlight on emerging talent in Hall C's Greenhouse area, as well as Hanna Nova Beatrice's Älvsjö Gård exhibition for experimental and collectible design in Hall A.
Design students are represented with the annual Ung Svensk Form exhibition, while Lund University is exploring Plastic Perspectives and Beckmans College of Design is presenting a student-led seating installation in collaboration with local furniture brands.
During the first two days of the fair, the Paper Bar will host a programme of talks curated by Dezeen, focused on the people, technologies, materials and processes that are shaking up the way the design industry operates today and in the future, with speakers including Toogood, biodesigner Natsai Audrey Chieza and Dutch industrial designer Ineke Hans.
Stockholmsmässan, Mässvägen 1
Stockholm Design Week 2025 takes place from 4-8 February in locations across the Swedish capital. See Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.
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