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Caring for a wax jacket
Care guides|October 2025
A timeless outerwear staple, Barbour’s classic waxed cotton jackets are known to last for decades with proper care.
Design|August 2025
The simplicity of the Skedblad chair
The wooden Skedblad chair is a distinctive and quickly recognisable feature of our cafés and store furnishings. Designed in 1933 by Carl Malmsten, one of the most well-known furniture designers and interior architects in the Nordics, the chair is as simple as can be, consisting of only six pieces, with a soft, oval backrest resembling the bowl of a spoon.
A self-taught designer, Carl Malmsten’s ideal was an organic style based on Swedish nature, local materials, and traditional crafts, and he often drew inspiration from historic models.
He highlighted the importance of the home as ‘an intimate place for gathering and repose’ and was a firm critic of the new functionalist principles of his time. But in retrospect, Malmsten played a central role in shaping the aesthetics and functionality of modern Swedish design, as well as the notion of beautiful everyday goods accessible to a wider audience.
Combining simplicity with timeless elegance and meticulous attention to detail, his Skedblad chair was a reinterpretation of a rustic, hand-carved folk design, originally made from lightweight pine.
Today’s version was revived from the archives exclusively for ARKET in 2017, now rendered in solid oak at Tre Sekel in Tibro, a centre for woodworking and furniture design in the southwest of Sweden. For us, it embodies the idea of everyday beauty and stands as proof of the longevity of good design.
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Care guides
Suede
Care guides|August 2025
Suede is crafted from the underside of leather hides, offering a soft, fuzzy finish. Due to its delicate nature, it is important to properly care for your suede products to extend their lifespan.
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Linen
Care guides|August 2025
Linen is a strong natural fibre that gets softer with use and time. It’s breathable and has a soft texture. Caring for linen properly helps maintain its natural characteristics.
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Down
Care guides|August 2025
Down is ideal for lightweight insulating outerwear because it creates a warm thermal barrier next to the body. Treat your down products with special care to maintain their level of performance.
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Pattern with purpose
Design|December 2025
This winter, we present a new collaboration with Stockholm-based artist Evelina Kroon, created in support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. A limited-edition plaid blanket in blue, white and red that continues our shared conversation on colour, textiles and everyday objects – now with a wider purpose.
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Polkapojkarna
Suppliers|November 2025
Rooted in Sweden’s sweet-making tradition, Polkapojkarna is a small confectionery based in the town of Gränna – the birthplace of the red-and-white peppermint stick known in Sweden as polkagris.
Caring for a wax jacket
Care guides|October 2025
A timeless outerwear staple, Barbour’s classic waxed cotton jackets are known to last for decades with proper care.
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On living in a small world
Notes|October 2025
For our new design collaboration with British outdoor specialists Barbour, we spent a few days on the island of Gotland earlier this year, capturing the distinctive landscape of sea, stone, and open skies, and the lives of people who live and work there.