5 Tips to Bring a Little Nordic Design Flair
into Your Living Room
Scandinavian Classics
There is no reason the envy the Scandinavians for their style! Add a Nordic design classic to your living room and you, too, can boast of a little “Copenhagener flair”. How about the Swan Chair by Arne Jacobsen, upholstered in a Divina fabric? Or the Wegner Chair CH25 in soaped oak and with a nature mesh? These classics show that their Nordic producers value natural products and handicraft. Even better: they’re also really comfortable!
Adventures at Home
Add a little green to your sideboard and you won’t even have to leave your living room to relax and to find that holiday feeling. The choice is yours: perhaps a Monstera leaf or two will take you back to that jungle adventure you still rave about. Or maybe you prefer a delicate fern branch set in a glass vase for inspiration. Ask your florist for what’s in season – and come to us if you need a glass vase or a sideboard to go with it.
Reduce to the Max
Follow the maxim “Reduce to the max,” and feel Zen even when you furnish your living room. Take colour for example: a combination of white furniture with soaped oak conveys natural freshness and a Nordic design flair. If you opt for multifunctional pieces, you can implement a reductionist approach even as you select your furniture – without forfeiting your comfort. An added bonus: any accents you set – for example with the colour dusty red – show to their best advantage with such a minimalist approach.
Piece by Piece
Do you like puzzles? Then why stop at Tetris? Try your hand at your furniture! Combining chairs upholstered with different fabrics, for example, will give your dining room a playful and nonchalant ambiance. You could even go a step further and combine different models and materials! The Grandprix by Arne Jacobsen, for example, with the About a Chair by Hay – or with a J110 by Poul M. Volther.
Real Life Still Life
Instead of hanging art on your walls, you can create art on your shelves: place that beautiful old book you just found at a flea market next to the Kinfolk magazine and perhaps the Paper Vase by Hay. The Compile Bookend by Cecilie Manz completes the picture – and incidentally keeps your books in place. Let your imagination run wild and try for yourself which objects you like. And the best part about it? You can rearrange and change them anytime!
