Original leisure furniture from Scandinavia

THERE IS NO GREATER LUXURY THAN TIME Ever since we at Skargaarden put together our first chair, we have had a special relationship with time. We have spent rather a lot of it, God only knows. Our furniture is not produced in an instant.   And we have made all our products with time in mind; from at least two different aspects. On the one hand, they shall stand up to time and age with absolute dignity. On the other hand, they are made for a special time, namely free time. In our world, there is no purer form of luxury than leisure time. When you actually don’t have to be productive. When you don’t...

weden lies in the far north, and the polar circle runs through it. Where we live was recently covered in glacier ice, and only when the ice started to retreat did humans take over the landscape. Here, we live in the coniferous forest, and if you point eastwards, you point towards the Siberian tundra. Summer is short here. We know that every minute of it is a loan, which we repay with interest during the dark months. Skargaarden could not have originated from anywhere else. We make leisure furniture. They can be placed wherever you want to spend your leisure time. Irrespective of whether this...

MOVING OUTDOORS For many hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived under the open sky. And perhaps that is why we feel so comfortable there even now. There are moments when even the very thought of walls and roofs feels claustrophobic. Out here, dinner often lasts into the night, full of discussions about life, art, love and many much more trivial matters. The subject is unimportant; the company is all. The newcomer Djurö dining furniture made entirely from teak is carefully designed to assist in these situations. Like the people sitting in the chairs, it works well indoors. And does so with...

RESÖ The E6 road goes all the way up to Kirkenes, right up at the top of Scandinavia, where Norway meets Russia. But those who turn off at Kragenäs, in Bohuslän on the Swedish west coast, and follow the road across two bridges, end up at Resö instead. A fishing village in the archipelago that refused to die and become a tourist resort. Here you can sit on the veranda of the boarding house by the sea and have a beer. And when you look out across the archipelago, you can easily get an idea for a chair. One that juxtaposes the soft and graceful lines of steel with the sturdy load-bearing ability...

FÖRLÄNG HIMLEN

Resö is perhaps the only chair that may make its observer seriously consider setting up a café business, just in order to buy around fifty chairs. Like perch, it is happiest in a shoal.

DJURÖ Djurö is a secret place. It’s in the middle of Lake Vänern, isolated from the world by freshwater that stretches into the distance: you feel as though you are out at sea, or the last person on Earth.   Our Djurö furniture range is not quite so secret. But it does share some of the same qualities: the same sensation of other-worldliness.   Djurö has a link to the past, to the iconic Scandinavian teak furniture of the 50s. It also gives a very nonchalant nod to the future, in the durable acrylic fabric in the chair seat and backrest. Together, the past and future combine to create a strong...

Is God really in the details? Then consider Djurö armchair a sacred piece of furniture. The simplicity shining from a distance turns into ingenious sublimity once you take a closer look.

FALSTERBO There is something grand in the name Falsterbo. It expands slowly, letter by letter. One need only print it to produce a logo that exudes bohemian nobility and natural privilege. Just say the word and imagine the shoreline embracing the sea, which turns to kiss the sky.   In this harmonious summer idyll, artist Joseph Frank drew five summer houses – the only ones he drew in Sweden. Here, southern Swedish nobility bathes in the nude. And, of course, there are also golf clubs and horse shows.   Our Falsterbo lounge series encapsulates all this with a very casual elegance, where strict...

Our Falsterbo range is luxurious and inviting. Deep sofas and armchairs with wooden frames and thick cushions (filled with down for indoor use and polyester for outdoor use) turn something as mundane as sitting down into a genuine experience. The series includes an armchair, two and three-seat sofas, a sun bed and a table in three different sizes.

GRINDA Standing on the gravel in front of his enormous Art Nouveau villa, lawyer and financier Henrik Santesson smokes a cigarette, his eyes squinting in the soft June light. It is 1930, and he is on the island of Grinda in the Stockholm archipelago. A place where cows wander around as if nothing matters to them apart from the grass.   A thousand miles away, in Dessau, Marcel Breuer sits on one of the Bauhaus Schools’ rooftop terraces. He is dressed in a casual summer suit and bowtie. When he shuts his eyes he imagines metal that can be moulded into any sort of shape. When he opens his eyes he...

Gently bowed teak wood pierced by lacquered black steel. Exquisite parts, seamlessly assembled: high precision craftsmanship, designed for spending long evenings with a few old friends and a bottle of Burgundy.

The ingenious design of the Grinda chair: Don’t get fooled by the minimalistic, almost ascetic, look. The springiness in the construction and the carefully bended teak makes it very comfortable. Carefully crafted for long breakfasts, thick books and really hard crosswords.

HÄRINGE Häringe Castle nestles by Landfjärden Bay. It had stood there for 272 years when Torsten Kreuger purchased it in 1929. Torsten was a man with little understanding of historically listed buildings and a keen interest for new fashions.   He quickly installed a fridge in the kitchen, a skittle alley in one of the wings and Sweden’s first outdoor swimming pool in the castle gardens.   Over time, the castle became a jet-set haunt where one could see both Josephine Baker and Greta Garbo. Decadent? Perhaps a bit. Fashionable? To some extent.   If you were to design a piece of furniture according...