Year: 2025
Client: Fabege
Location: Fabege HQ, Stockholm
Focus: Interior Concept, Circular Design, Bespoke Furniture & Surfaces
Gläntan, Swedish for glade, is a 100 square metre social space at the heart of Fabege’s Stockholm headquarters. Fabege asked us to turn an underused part of the office into somewhere people would choose to stay: a place to gather before an event, to talk properly, or to step out of the working day for a moment. Most of the material in the room is reused, recycled or bio-based, from the pendant lights to the rug underfoot, and the aim was to make circularity something people want rather than something they accept. The project was shown at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025.
The room is built around the feeling of stepping into a sunlit clearing in the forest, and the palette follows: moss on stone, lichen, the movement of waves, the soft surface of the forest floor. Three sculptural pendants hang from the ceiling like acorns from a branch. Made from oyster shells and starch-based bioplastic, they give the room a soft, warm light.
Together with Fabege, we took an existing kitchen unit from their internal reuse hub and refurbished it with translucent panels made from recycled yogurt packaging. Light filters through them in a pattern close to terrazzo. Above it, shelves are made of the same panels and 3D-printed consoles from a biocomposite. A custom rug inspired by moss and lichen grounds the whole room.
The four tables began as fishing nets, collected along Sweden’s west coast and heat-pressed into tabletops with a texture that differs from piece to piece. They stand on bases made from a biocomposite of cellulose and starch-based plastic.
