Onoffice magazine

Who doesn’t love a bit of colour, eh? The new office for fashion group Fabric Retail is awash with it. Red, yellow, green, blue, white, black, grey – all are hues to be found in varying degrees of intensity in this new workplace in central Gothenburg. The space sits within a three-storey, early-20th-century building, which has been spruced up to house a trio of companies that are part of the H&M group. The inspiration for the scheme, says Catharina Frankander,…

Another day, another curious office scheme from Stockholm. Form Us With Love (FUWL), a small design company made up of three Swedish blokes, has moved into a bright, monochrome space in the city’s Sankt Eriksgatan district. The new outpost resides in a building dating back to the early 20th century, though you wouldn’t know from the inside, and is split over three levels: workshop, studio and office. The intriguing company statement about the space says that it’s “inspired by the…

With a name like Uglycute, what could possibly go wrong? Fortunately, Swedish fashion brand Cheap Monday knew from experience that the design firm’s moniker is not necessarily a reflection of its work. Uglycute (one architect, two artists) made a rousing success of fitting out the company’s Copenhagen flagship store the previous year, so it was a no-brainer to enlist them to design a new studio and showroom on the business’s home turf of Stockholm. Whether the result is ugly, cute or…

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