Native studio Type Us With Love has remodeled its waterfront office right into a bistro for Stockholm Design Week, the place guests can meet, eat and “truly operate and take a look at” the furnishings on show.
The undertaking is the second iteration of Testing Grounds, an set up that Type Us With Love debuted finally yr’s Stockholm Design Week by reconfiguring its studio as a future office prototype.
This yr, the house is getting used to current design collaborations with lighting producer Blond, furnishings model +Halle and modular shelving specialist String.
It was additionally remodeled into a gathering and consuming hub to make operate of the studio’s current open-plan kitchen, Type Us With Love co-founder Jonas Pettersson informed Dezeen.
“We’ve this long-term tradition of cooking collectively each Wednesday,” he stated. “About half a yr in the past, somebody stated throughout that lunch, possibly we must always begin a restaurant, in the best way that you simply’d say ‘possibly we must always begin a band’.”
“Then we began speaking about what sort of delicacies we might have, what we might be consuming, how we might adorn it,” Pettersson continued. “So we thought we might do a prototype for Stockholm Design Week.”
Type Us With Love organized clusters of white tables and steel Torno chairs, a former collaboration with +Halle, throughout the studio to supply bistro-style seating for diners. +Halle is debuting its Nest Membership Chair – an enveloping pink armchair that provides pops of color to the in any other case “austere” house, defined Pettersson.
The studio is illuminated by gaunt, red-accented lighting created with Blond. Referred to as Catena, the customisable lighting elements might be each suspended and wall-mounted collectively or as standalone objects.
“The thought is that inside designers can mess around with single items or a system,” stated Pettersson.
Type Us With Love clad the central kitchen unit in white-hued perforated steel storage to create a drinks bar. The adaptable storage, known as Middle Middle, was beforehand created with String and is now accessible in a sequence of colors.
Contemplating the choice to current the design collaborations in a useful house the place interacting with the items is actively inspired, Pettersson stated, “it is good which you can truly operate and take a look at them”.
“Merchandise on podiums are fascinating in some methods,” he mirrored. “But it surely’s fascinating to see how folks expertise issues. We will design one thing, however we won’t dictate the way it’s going for use. So this place is a testing floor for us to see.”
Inviting illustrations of wine glasses, meals and furnishings characterise the studio home windows, including a playful distinction to the utilitarian interiors.
The bistro is holding a number of dinners and different occasions all through Stockholm Design Week.
