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Swedish design for everyday use Timeless and functional stoneware is designer Gustav Kristensson’s cup of tea. In 2009 he founded Vardagsbruk, a Swedish design company with a name that translates as ‘everyday use’. By Ellinor Thunberg | Photos: Vardagsbruk
The award-winning stoneware collection, Half Past Seven, started with a teapot but today has your whole tea or coffee break covered with mugs, milk jugs, breakfast bowls and more. “We hope that our products will get a special place in your home, to be used every day or on special occasions. We believe these things can contribute to joyful moments – the product becomes a companion that works just as well on its own as it does as part of a set,” says Kristensson.
Timeless design meets modern function.
Clean Scandinavian design Kristensson carries a sketch pad everywhere and says that inspiration can come in any
The teapot is the queen of the collection.
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Founder and designer Gustav Kristensson.
The award-winning collection Half Past Seven.
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It started at Grandma Ida’s The story began over 30 years ago, when Gustav and his brothers and sisters visited Grandma Ida Kristensson in the southern Swedish fishing
village of Barsebäckshamn. She had plenty of pottery of all shapes and colours, and this made an impression on the young designerto-be. Memories of family time and special moments grew into an idea of a design company.
shape, such as architecture, arts or music. But nature, with its colourful seasons, is always important. “To us, Scandinavian design is about getting close to the user with a simple and clear product, combined with inspiration from nature where the choice of materials and the handicraft tradition is reflected in the design,” he says. The next product to launch is a functional kitchen jar in stoneware and wood that will soon add to the range of products, all made in Sweden and Portugal.
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