Born in Sweden combines innovative design with simple products.This company was founded by Pascal Charmolu and Kim Vejsholt in 2007 who have worked together on many design projects over the years, before deciding to join forces and combine their skills.

Simple Design, unique homes, cool stuff

Since its 1943 founding in Sweden, IKEA has offered home furnishings of good design and function, at low prices so the majority of people can afford them.

Charlotte West is a design writer who recently returned to the United States after six years abroad in Stockholm, Sweden. She writes for a number of publications in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Sweden. Her work has appeared in Icon, Step, Varoom, Budget Travel and Men's Journal. She is also an editor at large for Elemente magazine in Canada. Charlotte lives in Seattle with two Norwegian forest cats.

Iris Hantverk is a Swedish company that designs and produces bathroom, kitchen, cleaning, and outdoor storage and accessories. The core of the company is brush binding, where five visually impaired craftsmen make the brushes in the old Swedish tradition. The company has a long history working with SRF—the visually impaired organization in Sweden, and the company is dedicated to supporting that cause and keeping traditional brush binding alive.

Tiffany Orvet is a writer and documentary producer based in San Francisco, and couldn't be happier than when seeing good design in action. In 2009, she turned her passion for Scandinavian design into a business and launched From Sthlm, a shop and blog dedicated to bringing independent Swedish design to the US. When she's not exploring new ways to get close to the water or on an airplane to Stockholm, you can find Tiffany typing away on her trusty laptop and be sure in the knowledge that a new From Sthlm update is on the way. Tiffany's blog is at fromsthlm.com/blog.

Per Bornstein runs his architectural practice Bornstein Arkitekter in Gothenburg, Sweden

Gert Wingårdh is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingårdh Architecture, maintains an international practice.

Hem is a design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. Together with some of the most relevant designers of today, we create unique products that aim to fit perfectly into the way people live today.

Born and raised in Sweden, Greta Magnusson Grossman represents a literal link between European design and California modernism. In 1940, after already establishing herself as a renowned designer in Sweden, she and her husband, jazz bandleader Billy Grossman, immigrated to Los Angeles. Although Grossman's work was well known and in demand through the 1950s and '60s her work was photographed by Julius Shulman, she appeared frequently in John Entenza's Art & Architecture magazine and she received two prestigious Good Design Awards from MoMA–she faded into relative obscurity. Recently, renewed interest in this pioneering modernist has resulted in some of her pieces being brought back into production.

With a Swedish mother and Danish father, Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm shows her Nordic roots in her furniture through a minimalistic approach and choice of materials, like wood, leather and wool. Function is always the starting point and dictates the idiom of the finished pieces. Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm is currently living in Copenhagen, Denmark, working with companies as Trip Trap Denmark, Design-Nation and Menu as well as focusing on projects for various exhibitions. She did her initial studies of design and art in Stockholm, Sweden and graduated in 2007 from The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Handwoven wire baskets that dates back to the early 1920´s Sweden.

Emtek Products, Inc. is a door and cabinet hardware manufacturer, based in the City of Industry, Los Angeles County and a subsidiary of Swedish company Assa Abloy.

Swedish architect Nils Strinning (1917–2006) was one of the leading mid-twentieth century designers who built the foundation of what we now call “Scandinavian Design.”

Bengt Mattias Carlsson is a Swedish architect who designs for Meter Arkitektur and Archie Design Lab.

Christoffer Rudquist is a London-based photographer who grew up in the countryside of his home country, Sweden.

Designer from Sweden

Sweden’s most famous foursome may always be ABBA, but the names of the game today are those of the four women of Front: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, and Katja Sävström. Blurring the boundary between art and design, Front’s work ranges from speakers reimagined as hanging glass orbs to life-size animal statues that act as lamp stands.

Wästberg was founded in 2008 by Magnus Wästberg. It has a growing catalogue developed in close collaboration with some of the World’s most renowned architects and designers, including David Chipperfield, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Ilse Crawford, James Irvine, Jonas Lindvall, Jean-Marie Massaud, Nendo, Inga Sempé, Maarten Van Severen and Dirk Winkel. Wästberg's lamps have been honoured with more than 40 awards for design excellence, including 8 Good Design Awards, 5 Reddot awards, Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, Elle Interior Design Prize, the Swedish Design Award, Wallpaper Design Award and Designs of the Year. Wästberg is based in Helsingborg, in the southernmost region of Sweden, Skåne.

Skultuna has produced brass and sterling silver objects for over 400 years. Established in 1607 in Skultuna, Sweden, the company has a storied history, including launching the brass industry in Sweden, founding industrial design processes that have continued today, countless awards in the early 20th century, and creating a Scandinavian style of metalwork in the mid-1900s. Today, the company maintains its production at the original Skultuna factory, where production has remained unbroken since the early 17th century. With a focus on high quality products, the company designs metal items that can be used everyday or for special occasions.

Form Us With Love is an internationally acclaimed design studio from Stockholm working with brands like ateljé Lyktan, FontanaArte, Cappellini, DePadova, Muuto, Design House Sthlm and One Nordic Furniture Company. FUWL was started in 2005 by John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson, and Petrus Palmér. They met studying Product Design at Kalmar University, in Småland, a county in southern Sweden known to be the heartland of Swedish furniture manufacturing. The studio aims to challenge the conventional through design initiatives.

Daniel Carlsten is an Art director at Acne and co-founder of Acne Art Department 2004-2009. He was awarded the scholarship for promising talent (Kycklingstipendiet) by The Swedish Association of Communication Agencies 2006, and served on the design jury of Guldägget 2007. Additionally he was nominated and awarded in Guldägget, Kolla and OneShow, and received diplomas from the Danish and Swedish business press for work within graphic design and illustration. He served as a guest speaker at Beckmans College of Design, Forsbergs School of Advertising and Design and HDK (School of Design & Crafts).

A designer by trade, Johanna Björk has always had a passion for storytelling and style. She currently works in the intersection of design, fashion and sustainability and is the founder of web magazine Goodlifer. Born and raised in Sweden, she's lived and worked in Miami, Brooklyn and is currently based in the LA-area. As Editor of Goodlifer, columnist for conscious culture site EcoSalon (ecosalon.com), and a freelance writer, she reports on the latest and greatest in good living, sustainable style, culture and trends from all over the world.

Swedish CleanTech Company. Small solutions to big problems. www.alteredcompany.com

Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom have run the architecture and design studio TAF in Stockholm, Sweden since 2002. TAF’s aim is to make ordinary life less ordinary through subtle but effective changes in how products and architecture appear and function. A recurrent departure point in TAF projects is that everyday objects by their very commonness can be made uncommon.

Area is a New York-based company that makes bedding and home accessories. Swedish founder Anki Spets started Area in 1990 to continue the Scandinavian tradition of good design for everyday. They create original designs using natural fibers, seeking to create products with long-lasting beauty and comfort.

Bringing together dynamic building and material experimentation with traditional methods of craft, Bergen-based Saunders Architecture has worked on cultural and residential projects right across Norway, as well as England, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Canada.

Studying Master of Science in Media Technology at LiU Sweden.

Design-builder in Sweden, working with a Sandwich structural system we developed for extreme climates. Contact us through the website prefabark.se or directly by email at kenton@prefabark.se