The design duo of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Oscar Kylberg have designed landscape-like interiors for a resort in a Swedish nature reserve, that includes their first own-label furnishings assortment.
The Bernadotte & Kylberg founders have created three distinctive suites at Arken, a part of the Eriksberg Lodge and Nature Reserve in Blekinge, southern Sweden, which is Scandinavia’s largest safari park.
The scheme consists of custom-designed furnishings items that the duo have now launched below their very own life-style model, additionally named Bernadotte & Kylberg.
The Eriksberg furnishings assortment contains a bar cupboard, a writing desk and a chair, produced from strong oak wooden, diabase stone and polished brass.
The three Arken suites take cues from totally different components of the Eriksberg reserve, a 925-hectare park that’s residence to mouflon sheep, minks, wild boars and numerous species of deer.
The grey-toned Urberg suite refers to mountain landscapes, whereas the green-hued Skog suite is known as after the Swedish phrase for forest. The third suite, the pale-blue Himmel, references the sky.
Bernadotte & Kylberg additionally set out the design palette for the opposite 23 rooms of the resort, which function matching colors and textiles to the suites.
“Eriksberg is a singular and handsome place in Blekinge. It’s an expertise completely on nature’s personal phrases,” stated Carl Philip Bernadotte.
“It’s exactly this encounter with nature that we wish to seize by blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoor,” continued the prince.
Bernadotte & Kylberg designed lots of the particulars within the three suites, together with the textural, multi-tonal carpets that dictate the three totally different color schemes.
The furnishings, together with beds, espresso tables and armchairs, was custom-produced by Älmhult-based producer Specab. Bespoke lighting items had been in the meantime developed with glass artists Simon Klenell and Rasmus Nossbring.
The duo additionally commissioned print designer Martin Bergström to design wallpaper for every suite, which he based mostly on vegetation and different parts he collected on walks via the reserve.
Different standout particulars embody the floor-to-ceiling tree-trunk columns within the Skog suite and the immense boulders within the Urberg suite.
“We had been tasked with creating and realising a complete inside design imaginative and prescient,” stated Kylberg, describing the ambition to mirror “the soul and pure variety of Eriksberg”.
“We hope and imagine that friends will benefit from the suites as a lot as we loved creating them,” he added.
For the Eriksberg assortment, Bernadotte & Kylberg have developed up-to-date colourways for the furnishings items. The designs are available daring pink or inexperienced finishes, in addition to pure oak.
The diabase used for these designs was sourced from the Kullaro Stone quarry in close by Skåne.
“The diabase stone quarried at Biskopsgården, within the northeastern a part of the Swedish area Skåne, is really distinctive, impressing not solely with its rarity but additionally with its distinctive character and composition,” Kylberg stated.
Prince Carl Philip is the one son of King Carl XVI Gustaf, and fourth in line to the Swedish throne.
He and Kylberg based their Stockholm-based studio in 2012. They initially centered on product design, however began shifting into interiors after being commissioned to create a set at Sweden’s famed Icehotel.
They launched the Bernadotte & Kylberg design label in 2023, with a launch assortment of scarves and blankets embellished with the B&Ok emblem.
In an unique interview with Dezeen to mark the launch, the duo stated that public scrutiny has saved them on their toes.
“We all know that the whole lot we do goes to be checked out extra,” stated Bernadotte. “Within the first years, it took plenty of vitality from us, however right now it is one thing that’s simply there,” added Kylberg.
In addition to the Eriksberg furnishings, Bernadotte & Kylberg have added a brass tealight holder known as The Tulip to their own-label assortment.
